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Weather Report: Black Market

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1976
Time:
 37:07
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Joe Zawinul
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.binkie.net
Appears with: Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius
Purchase date: 1999.12.11
Price in €: 10,99



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[1] Black Market (J.Zawinul) - 6:28
[2] Cannon Ball (J.Zawinul) - 4:36
[3] Gibraltar (J.Zawinul) - 8:16
[4] Elegant People (W.Shorter) - 5:03
[5] Three Clowns (W.Shorter) - 3:31
[6] Barbary Coast (J.Pastorius) - 3:19
[7] Herandnu (A.Johnson) - 6:36

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JOE ZAWINUL - Synthesizer, Piano, Keyboards
ALEJANDRO "Alex" ACUÑA - Percussion, Conga
ALPHONSO JOHNSON - Bass, Electric Bass
CHESTER THOMPSON - Drums
DON ELIAS - Percussion, Conga
JACO PASTORIUS - Bass
NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN - Drums
WAYNE SHORTER - Tenor & Soprano Saxophone, Lyre

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DISC: 1
UPC: 074643409926
LABEL: Columbia
ENSORECORD: 112177



The shifts in Weather Report's personnel come fast and furious now, with Narada Michael Walden and Chester Thompson as the drummers, Alex Acuna and Don Alias at the percussion table and Alphonso Johnson giving way to the mighty, martyred Jaco Pastorius. It is interesting to hear Pastorius expanding the bass role only incremently over what the more funk-oriented Johnson was doing at this early point -- that is, until {&"Barbary Coast,"} awhere suddenly Jaco leaps athletically forward into the spotlight. Joe Zawinul or just Zawinul, as he preferred to be billed -- contributed all of Side 1's compositions, mostly Third World-flavored workouts except for "Cannon Ball," a touching tribute to his ex-boss Cannonball Adderley (who had died the year before). Shorter, Pastorius and Johnson split the remainder of the tracks, with Shorter now set in a long-limbed compositional mode for electric bands that would serve him into the 1990s. While it goes without saying that most Weather Report albums are transition albums, this diverse record is even more transient than most, paving the way for WR's most popular period while retaining the old sense of adventure.

Richard S. Ginell - All Music Guide
 

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