Mr. Gone is the eighth studio album by jazz fusion band Weather Report first released in 1978, the album rose to No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.

The record became a center of controversy when DownBeat magazine gave it a one-star review. Joe Zawinul went on to deliver a furious response to this review during a later interview.

On Mr. Gone, Weather Report became a cover name forJoe Zawinul/Jaco Pastorius jazz/rock/funk record productions, with several guest drummers (Steve Gadd, Tony Williams, Peter Erskine), no resident percussionist, and Wayne Shorter as a still-potent solo saxophone threat. This album was denounced in its time as a sellout, probably on the reputation of Jaco’s pulsating “River People,” which is as close as Weather Report ever ca