Procession is the tenth studio album from Weather Report. It is the first album to feature the newest lineup of Weather Report. Victor Bailey replaced Jaco Pastorius as the bassist and Omar Hakim replaced Peter Erskine as the drummer. José Rossy was also added to the line up as percussionist. Omar Hakim is credited with finding Bailey and Rossy, they were all signed with Weather Report before Zawinul or Shorter even met them.
This is one of the band's finest albums according to many fans and critics.

Track listing

1. "Procession" (Zawinul) – 8:42
2. "Plaza Real" (Shorter) – 5:30
3. "Two Lines" (Zawinul) – 7:43
4. "Where The Moon Goes" (Zawinul, Lyrics by Nan O'Byrne and Zawinul ) – 7:50
5. "The Well" (Shorter, Zawinul) – 4:00
6. "Molasses Run" (Hakim) – 5:49

Personnel

• Josef Zawinul - Keyboards and synthesizers
• Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
  
   - Tenor and soprano saxophones
• Omar Hakim
  Omar Hakim
  Omar Hakim is an American jazz, jazz fusion and pop music drummer.Hakim credits jazz vibraphonist Mike Mainieri with giving him his first break in 1980; Hakim appeared in a video with Mainieri called The Jazz Life and began working with singer Carly Simon through Mainieri...
  
   - Drums, guitar and vocals
• Victor Bailey - Bass
• José Rossy - Percussion and concertina

with

• The Manhattan Transfer
  The Manhattan Transfer
  The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal music group. There have been two manifestations of the group, with Tim Hauser being the only person to be part of both...
  
  - Vocals on "Where The Moon Goes"