A fine mid-price package with three CDs and a two-hour DVD covering the gestation and 15-year lifespan of the most adventurous and imaginatively orchestrated fusion band of the 1970s and 80s. Composer/pianist Joe Zawinul applied a sweeping imagination to the enriching of electric jazz, saxophonist Wayne Shorter was his luminous alter ego, and a fast-changing cast of contributors (including bass guitar genius Jaco Pastorius, featured on the DVD’s dynamic 1978 concert in Germany alongside Zawinul, Shorter and drummer Peter Erskine) kept the band fresh. The joyously songlike Birdland, the chiming, stealthily building Nubian Sundance with its racing percussion, chanting voices and orchestral electronics, the African-inflected Black Market and plenty more classics and lesser-known pieces are here. The influences steering the co-founders are also touched on through opening tracks including Miles Davis’s In a Silent Way (a Zawinul original), Shorter’s Super Nova, and a glimpse of Zawinul’s earlier work with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley. The hustling, drum-packed 125th Street Congress is here in both its 1973 Sweetnighter version and a 2005 remix, in which Shorter’s acerbic soprano sax rolls and dives behind DJ Logic’s rap – a contemporary tweak that mainly confirms just how future-proof classic Weather Report already was.