>>It's interesting that later works of the members have gone in quite different directions. I thought I'd like Miroslav Vitouš, being Slavic etc, but what I could find of him was exactly what I despise. OTOH, Joe Zawinul is the right kind of crazy. Haven't run into anything by Wayne Shorter or Jaco Pastorius yet, so I wouldn't know.
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>They have both done some stuff on their own. Shorter was actually the guy who got Weather Report most of their early attention, having been a member of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and then replacing John Coltrane in Miles Davis's group. Miles didn't hire any fools. (Although he did reportedly pay them peanuts, apparently in faith that just being in his band was a career-making move).

He may have been right - just look at the list of the musicians who've been through Bluesbreakers, and how many of them had decent careers, at least.

It's not even funny, though, when a programmer is underpaid under the same pretext, "the knowledge of this trade that you'll gain here is worth much more... and here's the NDA for you to sign so you can't use that knowledge".