On the surface, Remembering Weather Report possesses little in common with the fusion supergroup that Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous co-founded in the early '70s with keyboardist Joe Zawinul and ...

Bassist Miroslav Vitous, veteran of the bands of Miles Davis, Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd, Chick Corea and numerous others had a dream decade after coming to the states in 1966 on a music scholarship.

Few musicians can honestly say that they changed the way their instruments are heard. And that goes double for double bassists, who more often provide unobtrusive support than solo star turns. Yet ...

The Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous was one of the founding members of the landmark jazz troupe Weather Report. But it was perhaps to his short-sighted fortune that he parted ways just as the fusion ...

Music of Weather Report is an exciting record, not just for the rejigged familiar pieces from the original band Weather Report, which Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous formed with dynamic keyboards ...

The Czech-born Miroslav Vitous is one of the world's more conspicuously able bassists. A very eclectic musician, he was a "father" of both so-called "fusion" of the jazz-rock variety (he was a founder ...

Quebec vibraphonist Jean Vanasse and acclaimed Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous showed some real chemistry at their duo concert at the Gesù on Saturday night. The show turned out to be a nice glimpse of ...

Terje Rypdal/Miroslav Vitous/Jack DeJohnette surfed brain waves a decade earlier, the guitar/bass/drums trio melting snow eponymously in Oslo with laser cymbalism and crying strings. Pat Metheny ...

Weather Report, those legendary harbingers of ‘jazz-rock fusion’, grew into a commercial juggernaut and briefly courted mainstream popularity in the mid-1970s, but the group’s origins were in a looser ...

Danny McBride is comedic writer and actor who started his career starring in the cult classic comedy, The Foot Fist Way. Although the film went to Sundance and was a modest success, McBride went back ...

Miroslav Vitous co-founded Weather Report in 1970 but left after three years, unhappy with the band’s turn towards funk. Here he returns to the band’s original blend of swirling improv and atmospheric ...