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Weather Report’s Night Passage, originally released in 1980, has some of the best compositions by Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Robert Thomas, Jr. and Peter Erskine. For Erskine, this is the first full studio album and he amply demonstrates his terrific sense of forward drive unique among the other superb drummers in WR annals. “Port of Entry” is a tour de force for Jaco, who knocks off several of those unbelievably slippery, pointed runs that have made him a posthumous legend. There is also a tremendously fun retro trip to Duke Ellington’s “Rockin’ in Rhythm,” everybody swinging their heads and hands off.