Editing Weather Report (section)

===1986–present: After Weather Report===
Having split the band, Zawinul promptly attempted to reform it – after a fashion – as Weather Update.<ref name="Larkin"/> For this project, he reunited with recent Weather Report alumni Victor Bailey, Mino Cinélu, and Peter Erskine, but replaced Shorter with guitarist [[John Scofield]]. This lineup was short-lived, with Los Angeles session guitarist [[Steve Khan]] and former Weather Report percussionist [[Robert Thomas Jr.]] replacing Scofield and Cinélu prior to live appearances.<ref>Bianchi, Curt. [http://www.zawinulonline.org/articles/weather_update/ "Weather Update: Zawinul in Transition"]. Zawinul Online.</ref> Weather Update toured in 1986 and 1987 before Zawinul dissolved the band. From 1988 onwards, Zawinul went on to enjoy a successful nineteen-year career leading the world music/jazz ensemble [[The Zawinul Syndicate (band)|The Zawinul Syndicate]] (which has continued, following Zawinul's death, as The Syndicate).

Rather than form another collective band, Wayne Shorter concentrated on his solo career and on work as a bandleader, which continued until his death on March 2, 2023.

In spite of the band's enduring popularity, a Weather Report reunion never occurred. The nearest that the band ever came to reuniting was when Zawinul and Shorter both played live with Miles Davis on July 10, 1991, in Paris (the only time when Zawinul is known to have shared a live stage with Davis).<ref name="ALLMUSIC" />  A projected mid-1990s reunion CD for Verve never materialized; according to Zawinul, disappointing sales for Shorter's 1995 CD ''[[High Life (Wayne Shorter album)|High Life]]'' may have played a part in ending the idea.<ref name=innerviewszawinul>Prasad, Anil. [http://www.innerviews.org/inner/zawinul.html "Joe Zawinul: Man of the people"]. Innerviews. 1997.</ref>

Six of the band's members have since died. Zawinul himself died on September 11, 2007, in Vienna from [[skin cancer]] ([[Merkel cell cancer|Merkel cell carcinoma]]).<ref>{{cite news|first=Ray|last=McDonald|title=Keyboardist Joe Zawinul Dies|date=September 12, 2007|publisher=Voice of America|url=http://voanews.com/english/archive/2007-09/2007-09-12-voa18.cfm|work=VOA News|access-date=January 2, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116115422/http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-09/2007-09-12-voa18.cfm|archive-date=January 16, 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091102289.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|title=Joe Zawinul, 75; Keyboardist Was a Pioneer of Jazz Fusion|first=Matt|last=Schudelm|date=September 12, 2007|access-date=May 6, 2010}}</ref> He was predeceased by mid-period bass player Jaco Pastorius, who died on September 21, 1987, following a fatal beating in his hometown of [[Fort Lauderdale]], Florida. Pastorius' successor on bass guitar, Victor Bailey, died on November 11, 2016 (apparently from complications from [[Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease]] and [[amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weatherreportdiscography.org/victor-bailey-rip/|website=VictorBailey.com|access-date=12 November 2016|title=Victor Bailey, RIP}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/victor.bailey.7165/posts/862799117184719 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/100003639155415/862799117184719 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|title=Health Update, Sept. 27th 2016|website=Facebook.com| access-date=12 November 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Alphonse Mouzon, the first drummer, died on December 25, 2016, from cardiac arrest after neuroendocrine cancer.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/arts/music/alphonse-mouzon-jazz-and-fusion-drummer-dies-at-68.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=28 December 2016|title=Alphonse Mouzon, Jazz and Fusion Drummer, Dies at 68}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://downbeat.com/news/detail/remembering-alphonse-mouzon|title=Remembering Alphonse Mouzon|website=Downbeat.com|date=February 6, 2017| access-date=6 February 2017}}</ref> Dom Um Romão, the group's percussionist from 1971 to 1974, died in 2005 aged 79.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://worldmusiccentral.org/2005/07/31/brazilian-percussionist-dom-um-romao-dies-at-79/|title = Brazilian Percussionist Dom um Romão Dies at 79 |website=Worldmusiccentral.org|date = 31 July 2005}}</ref> Wayne Shorter died on March 2, 2023, at the age of 89.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/03/02/wayne-shorter-jazz-saxophonist-dead/|title = Wayne Shorter, jazz musician of innovation and introspection, dies at 89|website=Washingtonpost.com|date = 2 March 2023}}</ref>