The Missing Link: Why Weather Report Is the Band Gen Z Didn't Know They Needed
In an era defined by genre dissolution, algorithmic discovery, and a generation of listeners who treat musical boundaries as suggestions rather than rules, Weather Report's catalog reads less like history and more like prophecy. The Vienna-born keyboardist Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter were doing decades ago what today's most forward-thinking artists are only now beginning to articulate. It is time for a serious reassessment.