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Heavy Weather

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Brown Street, Mysterious Voyages: A Tribute to Weather Report, Random Access, Pt. 3, Eye of the Beholder, Mysterious Traveller, Expansions, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny Group, Birds of Fire, Bitches Brew
  • Artist: Weather Report
  • Rating: StarStarStarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1977
  • Total Time: 37:39
  • Type: Instrumental
  • Genre: Jazz

Review

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 record-making, 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 Acuña 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

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Birdland Joe Zawinul Weather Report (5:57)
A Remark You Made Joe Zawinul Weather Report (6:51)
Teen Town Jaco Pastorius Weather Report (2:51)
Harlequin Wayne Shorter Weather Report (3:59)
Rumba Mamá Alex Acuña, Manolo Badrena Weather Report (2:11)
Palladíum Wayne Shorter Weather Report (4:46)
The Juggler Joe Zawinul Weather Report (5:03)
Havona Jaco Pastorius Weather Report (6:01)

Credits

Bob Belden (Producer), Bob Belden (Reissue Producer), Jaco Pastorius (Bass), Jaco Pastorius (Mandolin), Jaco Pastorius (Composer), Jaco Pastorius (Drums), Jaco Pastorius (Vocals), Jaco Pastorius (Drums (Steel)), Jaco Pastorius (Producer), Jaco Pastorius (Mandocello), Wayne Shorter (Soprano), Wayne Shorter (Saxophone), Wayne Shorter (Sax (Soprano)), Wayne Shorter (Sax (Tenor)), Wayne Shorter (Associate Producer), Wayne Shorter (Assistant Producer), Weather Report (Main Performer), Keith Williams (Photography), Steven Berkowitz (Director), Steven Berkowitz (Reissue), Steven Berkowitz (Reissue Series), Alex Acuña (Percussion), Alex Acuña (Conga), Alex Acuña (Drums), Alex Acuña (Tom-Tom), Alex Acuña (Handclapping), Joe Zawinul (Synthesizer), Joe Zawinul (Bass), Joe Zawinul (Guitar), Joe Zawinul (Piano), Joe Zawinul (Composer), Joe Zawinul (Drums), Joe Zawinul (Keyboards), Joe Zawinul (Mellophonium), Joe Zawinul (Tabla), Joe Zawinul (Vocals), Joe Zawinul (Melodica), Joe Zawinul (Orchestra), Joe Zawinul (Producer), Joe Zawinul (Fender Rhodes), Joe Zawinul (Oberheim), Joe Zawinul (Orchestration), Joe Zawinul (Arp 2600), Manolo Badrena (Percussion), Manolo Badrena (Conga), Manolo Badrena (Tambourine), Manolo Badrena (Timbales), Manolo Badrena (Vocals), Kevin Gore (Director), Kevin Gore (Reissue), Kevin Gore (Reissue Series), Jerry Hudgins (Engineer), Jerry Hudgins (Assistant Engineer), Ron Malo (Engineer), Mark Wilder (Digital Mastering), John Ephland (Liner Notes), Don Hunstein (Photography), Seth Rothstein (Director), Seth Rothstein (Project Director), Howard Fritzson (Art Direction), Howard Fritzson (Reissue Art Director), Nancy Donald (Design), Brian Risner (Engineer), Brian Risner (?), Brian Risner (Assistant Engineer), Randall Martin (Design), Randall Martin (Reissue Design), Lou Beach (Illustrations), Keith Williamson (Photography), Rene Arsenault (Associate Producer), Rene Arsenault (Production Assistant), Patti Matheny (A&R), Patti Matheny (Artist Coordination), Nicholas Bennett (Packaging Manager), Tom Oberheim (Synthesizer), Keith Williams (Photography)
Wikipedia: Heavy Weather (album)
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Heavy Weather
Studio album by Weather Report
Released March 1977
Recorded Late 1976 – Early 1977 at the Devonshire Sound Studios in North Hollywood, California
Genre Jazz fusion
Length 37:39
Label Columbia
Producer Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius and Weather Report
Professional reviews
Weather Report chronology
Black Market
(1976)		 Heavy Weather
(1977)		 Mr. Gone
(1978)

Heavy Weather is Weather Report's seventh album, released in 1977 through Columbia Records. It is the band's second album with bassist Jaco Pastorius. On Black Market, Pastorius played on two of the seven tracks, but here he is a full member of the band. It is on the short list of LP's considered to be the greatest of all Jazz-Fusion recordings.

Featuring the jazz standard "Birdland", the album is one of the best-sellers in the Columbia jazz catalog. Heavy Weather is considered a landmark album in the jazz-rock or fusion movement of the 1970s. Its opening track, "Birdland", was a significant commercial success, something not typical of instrumental music. The Birdland melody had been performed live by the band as part of Dr Honoris Causa, which was from Zawinul's eponymous solo album. A striking feature of Birdland is Pastorius picking harmonics on his fretless bass, although recordings exist of live performance of the theme prior to Pastorius joining the band when it was purely a keyboard section.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Birdland" (Zawinul) — 5:57
  2. "A Remark You Made" (Zawinul) — 6:51
  3. "Teen Town" (Pastorius) — 2:51
  4. "Harlequin" (Shorter) — 3:59
  5. "Rumba Mamá" (Badrena/Acuña) — 2:11
  6. "Palladíum" (Shorter) — 4:46
  7. "The Juggler" (Zawinul) — 5:03
  8. "Havona" (Pastorius) — 6:01

Personnel

Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts
(North America) - album
1977 Heavy Weather: Jazz Albums : No. 1
1977 Heavy Weather: Pop Albums : No. 30
1977 Heavy Weather: Black Albums : No. 33

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