Black Market
| Black Market | |
|---|---|
| Weather Report | |
| publication | March 1976 |
| length | 6:30 |
| Genre (s) | jazz |
| Author (s) | Joe Zawinul |
| Label | Columbia Records |
| album | Black Market |
Black Market is an instrumental composition by Joe Zawinul that was released on the album of the same name in 1976. She appeared u. a. also in 1979 on the live album 8:30 .
General
Alan Leeds wrote in his liner notes for the 2002 Weather Report compilation Live & Unreleased : "When asked which song best represented Weather Report for him, Zawinul immediately replied: Black Market ."
Black Market's intro was the theme tune for Radio Dakar in Senegal for more than 20 years .
composition
Zawinul often talked about the mirrored keyboard he played on Black Market . The ARP 2600 synthesizer made this inversion possible, as did the Oberheim later , so that the upper part of the keyboard produces the low tones.
“It was a challenge for me to play in a mirrored system. It's good for the head. When you improvise on chords, you have to transpose and your head has to be very, very fast. I recorded the mirrored keyboard at home one day and that became the song Black Market . After listening to it, I played the melodies on the regular keyboard, but it didn't sound as good as the mirrored one. Then I had to write down the melody and learn it again on the inverted keyboard because it was improvised at first. On stage, I play the first melody of the song with my right hand on the upside-down keyboard, and my left hand accompanies the first six notes on the Rhodes all the way to the bridge . Then the right hand plays the counterpoint chords on the polyphonic Oberheim synthesizer. The left hand plays the melody where the right hand left off, filling a chord or two on the Rhodes in between. It takes a while to get used to the mirrored system. Only C and F # are the same as on the normal keyboard. B becomes c sharp, b becomes D, A becomes Eb, and so on. I also play the chords of the bridge from "Black Market" on the Oberheim. The chords go up and the melody go down - in countermovement. It's nice to challenge yourself visually. It lets you play new things. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Alan Leeds: Weather Report Live & Unreleased Liner Notes, June 2002
- ↑ ndr.de: Joe Zawinul - A portrait for the 80th ( Memento from December 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ welt.de: "Music is what you play"
- ^ Gunther Baumann: Zawinul - A life from jazz , p. 120, Residenz Verlag 2002, ISBN 978-3701712915
- ↑ Len Lyons: Josef Zawinul Keyboard Magician , Keyboard Magazin, September 1977, pp. 26-28, 38, 40