A Remark You Made
| A Remark You Made | |
|---|---|
| Weather Report | |
| publication | March 1977 |
| length | 6:52 |
| Genre (s) | jazz |
| Author (s) | Joe Zawinul |
| Label | Columbia Records |
| album | Heavy Weather |
A Remark You Made is an instrumental ballad by the American jazz rock band Weather Report and written by Joe Zawinul . It was recorded on the album Heavy Weather in 1977 and also appeared on the live album 8:30 in 1979 .
A Remark You Made is considered one of the most beautiful ballads by Zawinul.
Composition and recording
Zawinul emphasized several times that the timbres of his fellow musicians inspired him in the composition.
"In" A Remark You Made "the special tone of the bass lets the melody sing. I am a composer who works with sound. … When I heard Jaco's sound, I started to write a song based on him and the saxophone and my little jive. ... I live from the sound, and it had a sound that will last forever. Nobody had a better, cleaner sound. "“
“I wrote A Remark You Made the day I got my Oberheim string synthesizer, and I found the sound I use on the song. The next day Jaco joined us and we just did it. I knew straight away that it was something special. ""
“The day I got the Oberheim, I sat down with him to try it out. ... I just played it. Every note Wayne was supposed to play was there. I wrote it down, and we took it in one or two takes on. All I did was overdub a little harmony . Everything was there immediately. "
Cover versions
The ballad was also recorded by other musicians such as Warren Bernhardt (1983), Wolfgang Weth (1983), David Newton (1994), Brian Bromberg (2002), Terje Gewelt (2002) and Jonas Knutsson (2008). The discographer Tom Lord recorded 19 recordings of the title.
Web links
- Comments on the Composition (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ weatherreportdiscography.org: The annotated discography
- ↑ Woodard, Josef, Joe Zawinul: The Dialects of Jazz, Down Beat April 1988, pp. 16-19.
- ↑ Jackson, Blair, Fusion Giants Weather Report , BAM 1983, No. 157, pp. 42-43.
- ↑ Sy Johnson: Zawinul From Birdland to 'Birdland' Jazz, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1977
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (Online, March 16, 2014)