Home / Music / Weather Report's Heavy Weather sold over a million copiesMusic linernotes album music weather-reportWeather Report's Heavy Weather sold over a million copiesHeavy Weather became Weather Report’s most commercially successful album, selling over one million copies in the US by 1991. DownBeat readers voted it jazz album of the year. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesNightporter is Weather Report's contemplative side'Birdland' became a jazz standard — and a hit instrumentalJaco Pastorius made his Weather Report debut on Black MarketWeather Report was central to jazz fusionVisions of the Emerald Beyond blends jazz fusion with Indian classical influencesExploreKayah made her solo debut in 1988 at Poland's National Festival of Polish SongScott LaFaro died in a car accident two weeks after the Village Vanguard sessionsYo-Yo Ma recorded Six Evolutions in four days at Worcester's Mechanics Hall52nd Street was cut at A&R Recording in the summer of 1978A Girl Called Eddy's debut came out on ANTI- in 2004Previous Yes and Eddy Offord produced Close to the EdgeNext Weather Report's Heavy Weather lineup featured Zawinul, Shorter, and Pastorius.