8:30

8:30
Live album by
ReleasedAugust 1979
RecordedNovember 28, 1978 (and other dates in late 1978)[1]
VenueTerrace Theater, Long Beach, California (plus "other locations")
GenreJazz fusion
Length80:58
LabelARC, Columbia
ProducerJoe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius
Weather Report chronology
Mr. Gone
(1978)
8:30
(1979)
Night Passage
(1980)

8:30 is the second live album from the jazz fusion group Weather Report, issued in 1979 by ARC/Columbia Records.[2] The album rose to No. 3 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart and No. 47 on the Billboard 200 chart.[3][4] 8:30 also won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance.[5]

  1. ^ Bianchi, Curt. "8:30". www.WeatherReportDiscography.org. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  2. ^ Weather Report - 8:30. ARC/Columbia Records. 1979.
  3. ^ "Billboard Best Selling Jazz LPs". Billboard Magazine. Vol. 91, no. 46. November 17, 1979. p. 56 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Weather Report: 8:30 (Billboard 200)". billboard.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2019.
  5. ^ "Weather Report". grammy.com. The Recording Academy.