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Weather Report: Heavy Weather

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1977
Time:
 38:03
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius, Bob Belden
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.binkie.net
Appears with: Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius
Purchase date: 1999.04.13
Price in €: 9,99



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[1] Birdland (J.Zawinul) - 5:57
[2] Remark You Made (J.Zawinul) - 6:51
[3] Teen Town (J.Pastorius) - 2:51
[4] Harlequin (W.Shorter) - 3:59
[5] Rumba Mama (A.Acuna/M.Badrena) - 2:11
[6] Palladium (W.Shorter) - 4:46
[7] Juggler (J.Zawinul) - 5:03
[8] Havona (J.Pastorius) - 6:01

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JOE ZAWINUL - Synthesizer, Bass, Piano, Drums, Keyboards, Fender Rhodes, Melodica, Mellophonium, Tabla, Vocals, Orchestra, Oberheim
ALEJANDRO "Alex" ACUÑA - Percussion, Conga, Drums, Tom-Tom, Handclapping
JACO PASTORIUS - Bass, Mandolin, Drums, Vocals, Steel Drums, Mandocello
WAYNE SHORTER - Soprano & Tenor Saxophone
MANOLO BADRENA - Percussion, Conga, Tambourine, Timbales, Vocals

RON MALO - Engineer
JERRY HUDGINS - Assistant Engineer
BRIAN RISNER - Assistant Engineer
MARK WILDER - Digital Mastering
SETH ROTHSTEIN - Director
JOHN EPHLAND - Liner Notes
HOWARD FRITZSON - Art Direction
NANCY DONALD - Design
RANDALL MARTIN - Design
LOU BEACH - Illustrations
DON HUNSTEIN - Photography
KEITH WILLIAMSON - Photography
RENE ARSENAULT - Associate Producer

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Weather Report's biggest-selling album is that ideal thing, a popular and artistic success - and for the same reasons. For one thing, Joe Zawinul revealed an unexpectedly potent commercial streak for the first time since his Cannonball Adderley days, contributing what has become a perennial hit, "Birdland." Indeed "Birdland" is a remarkable bit of recordmaking, a unified, ever-developing piece of music that evokes, without in any way imitating, a joyous evening on 52nd St. with a big band. The other factor is the full emergence of Jaco Pastorius as a co-leader; his dancing, staccato bass lifting itself out of the bass range as a third melodic voice, completely dominating his own ingenious "Teen Town" (where he also plays drums!). By now, Zawinul has become WR's de facto commander in the studio; his colorful synthesizers dictate the textures, his conceptions are carefully planned, with little of the freewheeling improvisation of only five years before. Wayne Shorter's saxophones are now reticent, if always eloquent, beams of light in Zawinul's general scheme while Alex Acuna shifts ably over to the drums and Manolo Badrena handles the percussion. Released just as the jazz-rock movement began to run out of steam, this landmark album proved that there was plenty of creative life left in the idiom.

Richard S. Ginell - All Music Guide
 

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