black-market

Dictionary: black-mar·ket

(blăk'mär'kĭt)
tr.v., -ket·ed, -ket·ing, -kets.
To trade (something) in the black market.

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Album Review: Black Market

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Artist: Weather Report
Rating:
Release Date: 1976
Total Time: 36:55
Type: Instrumental, Enhanced CD-ROM
Genre: Jazz

Review

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 incrementally over what the more funk-oriented Johnson was doing at this early point -- that is, until "Barbary Coast," where suddenly Jaco leaps athletically forward into the spotlight. Joe Zawinul or just Zawinul, as he preferred to be billed -- contributed all of side one'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

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Black Market	Joe Zawinul	Weather Report	(6:30)
Cannon Ball	Joe Zawinul	Weather Report	(4:40)
Gibraltar	Joe Zawinul	Weather Report	(7:49)
Elegant People	Wayne Shorter	Weather Report	(5:03)
Three Clowns	Wayne Shorter	Weather Report	(3:27)
Barbary Coast	Jaco Pastorius	Weather Report	(3:10)
Herandnu	Alphonso Johnson	Weather Report	(6:38)

Credits

Bob Belden (Reissue Producer), Jaco Pastorius (Bass), Jaco Pastorius (Bass (Electric)), Wayne Shorter (Lyre), Wayne Shorter (Saxophone), Wayne Shorter (Sax (Soprano)), Wayne Shorter (Sax (Tenor)), Wayne Shorter (Producer), Wayne Shorter (Assistant Producer), Weather Report (Main Performer), Chester Thompson (Drums), Steven Berkowitz (A&R), Don Alias (Percussion), Don Alias (Conga), Alex Acuña (Percussion), Alex Acuña (Conga), Joe Zawinul (Synthesizer), Joe Zawinul (Piano), Joe Zawinul (Keyboards), Joe Zawinul (Piano (Electric)), Joe Zawinul (Producer), Joe Zawinul (Fender Rhodes), Joe Zawinul (Oberheim), Joe Zawinul (Orchestration), Joe Zawinul (Piano (Grand)), Joe Zawinul (Arp 2600), Ed Caraeff (Photography), Alphonso Johnson (Bass), Alphonso Johnson (Bass (Electric)), Ron Malo (Engineer), Narada Michael Walden (Drums), Mark Wilder (Mastering), Hal Miller (Liner Notes), Don Elias (Percussion), Don Elias (Conga), Seth Rothstein (Project Director), Howard Fritzson (Art Direction), Nancy Donald (Design), David McMacken (Illustrations), Randall Martin (Desaccordee), Patti Matheny (A&R), Seth Foster (Mastering), Darren Salmieri (Artist Coordination), Linda Chang (Packaging Manager), Alejandro Neciosup Acuña (Percussion), Alejandro Neciosup Acuña (Conga)

WordNet: black-market

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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: distributed or sold illicitly
Synonyms: bootleg, black, contraband, smuggled

Wikipedia: Black Market (album)

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Black Market

Studio album by Weather Report

Released

April 1976

Recorded

December 1975 – January 1976

Genre

Jazz fusion

Length

36:55

Professional reviews

Allmusic link

Weather Report chronology

Tale Spinnin'
(1975)

Black Market
(1976)

Heavy Weather
(1977)

Black Market is an instrumental jazz fusion album released by Weather Report in 1976. This album was produced by Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. It was recorded in December 1975 and released in April 1976 through Columbia Records. Columbia released it again as a digitally-remastered CD in 1991.

This is Weather Report's sixth album and the first with the bass player Jaco Pastorius who features on two tracks. The album draws heavily from African influences and its style could be described as "world fusion". The second song, "Cannon Ball" is tribute to Zawinul's then recently deceased former band leader, saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley.

Track listing

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

Personnel

Joe Zawinul — 2 ARP 2600, Rhodes electric piano, Yamaha grand piano, Oberheim polyphonic synthesizer
Wayne Shorter — Selmer soprano and tenor saxophones, Computone Lyricon
Alphonso Johnson — Fender electric bass, Charles La Boe electric bass (tracks 1,3,4,5,7)
Jaco Pastorius — Fender Fretless electric bass (tracks 2,6)
Chester Thompson — Ludwig drums
Narada Michael Walden — Drums
Don Alias — Congas and percussion
Alejandro Neciosup Acuña — LP congas and percussion

External links

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