Miroslav Vitous (double bass), Gary Campbell (tenor saxophone), Franco Ambrosetti (trumpet), Gerald Cleaver (drums)

Miroslav Vitous  looks back on his early days in the influential fusion band Weather Report.

Vitous began playing violin at a young age, then switched over to the piano but eventually chose the double bass. In the mid 60s he moved to New York where he quickly became part of the vibrant New York scene.

Composer and bassist Miroslav Vitous is known mainly as a co-founder of the fusion band Weather Report together with Wayne Shorter and Joe Zaniwul. Weather Report was in the 70s popular with their mix of jazz, latin jazz, funk, rock and R&B.

Last year he released the album Remembering Weather Report. He said the following about the album: ''This album was created in memory of my time with Weather Report. The intention is not to play Weather Report repertoire, but to play new material under the concept that I brought in the group in 1970. Namely, direct conversation and equality between the instruments.' The material on the album, with the exception of his variations on Ornette Coleman's 'Lonely Woman', are composed by Vitous, including tributes to Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter.

Nowadays his quartet is formed by tenor saxophonist Gary Campbell, Franco Ambrosetti on trumpet and Gerald Cleaver on drums.

The newspaper De Standaard described the sound of the quartet on the album Remembering Weather Report as follows: In Vitous Quartet grows a kind of free conversation, in which he emerges as a virtuoso on bowed bass. The tenor sax of Gary Campbell, Gerald Cleavers crispy drums and the clarion-like trumpet lines of Franco Ambrosetti all sound inspired. (The Standaard).