The Best of Weather Report

Compilation by Weather Report

Released 4 June 2002

Alex Acuña
congas [8], drums (drum set) [1, 7], percussion [8]
Alex Kazanegras
engineer [4]
Alphonso Johnson
bass [2], electric bass guitar [6, 8-9, 11]
Alyrio Lima
percussion [6, 9]
Andrew White
bass [3]
Brian Risner
assistant [1, 7], engineer [5]
Chester Thompson
drums (drum set) [8]
David Mancini Jr.
assistant [4]
Dom Um Romão
percussion [2]
Don Alias
congas [11], percussion [11]
George Massenburg
engineer [5]
Herschel Dwellingham
drums (drum set) [3]
Ishmael Wilburn
drums (drum set) [2]
Jaco Pastorius
bass [4-5], co [1, 4-5, 7], electric bass guitar [1, 7], mandocello [1], producer [1, 7], vocal [1]
Jerry Hudgins
assistant [1, 7], engineer [5], mix [5]
Joe Zawinul
Rhodes piano [2, 6-9, 11], analog synthesizer [1, 7], arranger [4], electric piano [3], grand piano [1, 8, 11], keyboard [4-5], melodica [1, 9-10], orchestrator [1, 7], piano [10], producer [1, 4-5, 7-8, 11], synthesizer [3, 5-6, 8, 8-9, 11], vocal [1]
Leon Ndugu Chancler
drums (drum set) [6, 9], timpani [9]
Manolo Badrena
tambourine [1]
Miroslav Vitouš
bass [3]
Narada Michael Walden
drums (drum set) [11]
Peter Erskine
drums (drum set) [5]
Phil Giambalvo
engineer [3]
Robert Thomas, Jr.
percussion [5]
Ron Malo
engineer [1, 7-8, 11], recording [2, 10]
Skip Hadden
drums (drum set) [2]
Wayne Shorter
Lyricon [8, 11], assistant [1, 7], co [8, 11], piano [2], producer [1, 7], saxophone [3, 5], soprano saxophone [1-2, 6, 8-11], tenor saxophone [1-2, 4, 7-8, 11]