8:30
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| Music album by Weather Report | ||||
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Publication |
August 1979 |
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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Format (s) |
LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
13 |
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running time |
81:16 |
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Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius |
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8:30 is a 1979 album by Weather Report that contained three LP pages of live recordings and one side of studio recordings. The album won a Grammy in 1979 for Best Jazz Fusion Performance .
Live pages
The album name refers to the time at which the band usually started their concerts, which is illustrated by the painted album cover , which shows a crowd waiting in front of a concert hall. At the time the album was released, the band was seen by many critics at the zenith of their history. Weather Report had notable commercial success with hits like Black Market, Birdland, and Teen Town . According to the CD booklet, the recordings of the three live pages of the album were made in January and February 1979, three months after the album Live in Offenbach 1978, which was only released in 2011 .
Jaco Pastorius played his bass solo slang , on which he accompanies himself with an echo device, then on the subject of Third Stone from the Sun by Jimi Hendrix about Portrait of Tracy from his first solo album and then to (The Hills are Alive with) The Switch Sound of Music .
Studio side
After some recordings were accidentally deleted, the decision was made to add a studio page:
“Joe and I and the engineer were at Devonshire Studios, and the guy casually hits the record button. The assistant had selected all the tracks. The engineer didn't check that only one track was being overwritten, and the whole console glowed like a Christmas tree - and the room was quiet. I saw it and the engineer reacted immediately and pressed stop. Joe walked around and turned his back on him. The guy committed the ultimate sin of being a sound engineer. There was nothing to be said and Joe just walked around. We had now lost this recording, the only version. It was a blessing in my opinion because that day we decided to go to the studio to finish the album. "
On the studio side, Pastorius plays drums on two tracks: the title track 8:30 and Brown Street , in addition to Erskine. The latter title also mentions Joe Zawinul's eldest, thirteen-year-old son Erich Zawinul as a percussionist. Ten children from the West Los Angeles Christian Academy Children's Choir sing on The Orphan .
Track list
The page numbers refer to the long-playing record. The titles are from Zawinul, unless otherwise noted in brackets.
Page 1 (Live)
- Black Market - 9:47
- Scarlet Woman ( Alphonso Johnson / Shorter / Zawinul) - 8:42
Page 2 (Live)
- Teen Town (Jaco Pastorius) - 8:01
- A Remark You Made - 6:55
- Slang (Jaco Pastorius) - 4:45
- In a Silent Way - 2:47
Page 3 (Live)
- Birdland - 7:13
- Thanks for the Memory ( Leo Robin / Ralph Rainger ) - 3:33
- Medley: Badia / Boogie Woogie Waltz - 9:32
Page 4 (Studio)
- 8:30 - 2:36
- Brown Street (Zawinul / Wayne Shorter) - 8:34
- The Orphan - 3:17
- Sightseeing (Wayne Shorter) - 5:34
reception
| Professional reviews | |
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| Allmusic |
 
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The album was rated very positively in Allmusic :
"The group's studio championship sometimes overshadows the fact that they are a live monster too - so this standout live and studio album from 1979 shouldn't be overlooked."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Grammy 1979
- ↑ discogs.com: Weather Report - 8:30 am
- ^ Third Stone from the Sun
- ↑ weatherreportdiscography.org: 8:30
- ↑ Erich Zawinul: Percussion
- ↑ Bill Meredith: Review. Allmusic , accessed March 27, 2015 .