Sportin' Life

Sportin' Life is the fourteenth album by Weather Report, released in 1985. Although featuring many more vocal performances than any of their previous albums, words are rare and most vocals are chants from Bobby McFerrin or Carl Anderson. The album is named after a character from Porgy and Bess. All tracks composed by Joe Zawinul; except where indicated Weather Report Guests

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Release Date:

  • Mar 1985

Running Time:

  • 39 min 16 s

Genre:

Musical Album

Artist

Weather Report

Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s combining jazz and latin jazz with art music, ethnic music, r&b;, funk and rock elements (in varying proportions throughout their career). Chick Corea's group Return to Forever was similar in style and approach; the...

Label

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of notable singers,...
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