Heavy Weather

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Heavy Weather
Studio album by Weather Report
Released	1977
Recorded	Late 1976 – Early 1977 at the Devonshire Sound Studios in North Hollywood, California
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	37:39
Label	Columbia Records
Producer	Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius and Weather Report
Professional reviews
Rolling Stone (NR) link Allmusic link
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.

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

• Joe Zawinul — 2 ARP 2600, Rhodes electric piano, Yamaha grand piano, Oberheim polyphonic synthesizer, vocal, melodica, guitar, tabla
• Wayne Shorter — Soprano and tenor saxophones
• Jaco Pastorius — Electric bass, mandocello, vocals, drums, steel drums
• Alex Acuña — Drum set, congas, tom-toms, handclaps
• Manolo Badrena — Tambourine, congas, vocal, timbales, percussion

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

External links

• Weather Report Annotated Discography: Heavy Weather