Heavy Weather
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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CD, LP |
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8th |
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37:39 |
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Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius |
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Heavy Weather is Weather Report's seventh album and is considered a milestone in jazz-rock .
General
The 1976 recorded album was released in 1977 on Columbia Records . It was the group's second album with the electric bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius , who played on all of the pieces for the first time. The song Birdland , which is now considered the jazz standard , was released for the first time on the album Heavy Weather . At Birdland is an instrumental composition by Joe Zawinul, who like many bands, including Buddy Rich , Maynard Ferguson's big band and The Manhattan Transfer (as a vocal piece with lyrics by Jon Hendricks was acquired), the repertoire. Birdland is named after a jazz club in New York, Birdland , which in turn was named after Charlie Parker's nickname , Bird , who often performed at the club. The play is a tribute to Parker and the club the young Zawinul had often visited and where he met his future wife.
The album marked the breakthrough for Jaco Pastorius, who not only contributed two pieces of his own - Teen Town and Havona - but also had a significant influence on the sound design of this production as a co-producer.
Track list
- Birdland (Zawinul) - 5:57
- A Remark You Made (Zawinul) - 6:51
- Teen Town (Pastorius) - 2:51
- Harlequin (Shorter) - 3:59
- Rumba Mamá (Badrena) - 2:11
- Palladium (Shorter) - 4:46
- The Juggler (Zawinul) - 5:03
- Havona (Pastorius) - 6:01
Impact history
The magazine Down Beat reviewed the album in May 1977, where it received the highest rating (5 stars), although the reviewer did not approve two tracks. But the other pieces are of such quality that the album can be classified as a delicacy ("Smörgasbröd"). Other reviews also praised the album similarly. For Pat Metheny , it's Weather Report's best record. The album sold more than half a million times in the United States alone and, according to Ralf Dombrowski , "became a paradigmatic album for the following years of jazz rock and pop."
The music magazine Jazzwise added the album to The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World list ; Stuart Nicholson wrote:
“Sometimes, when listening to Weather Report at their best and this is one of their very best, it's worth pinching yourself as a reminder that at their heart, this band comprised one of jazz's most basic jazz configurations. It's simply, saxophone, piano, bass, drums and percussion. Then, listen to 'Birdland', later covered by Manhattan Transfer and Maynard Ferguson , and wonder. Listen to the boost Pastorius gives the band, especially on his own compositions Havona and Teen Town . Reaching number 30 on the Billboard album chart, even today Heavy Weather remains as stunning in its overall effect as the day it was made. "
“Sometimes when you hear the Weather Report at its best, and it is one of their best, it is worth pinching yourself as a reminder that this band is made up of one of the most basic jazz configurations at heart. It's just saxophone, piano, bass, drums, and percussion. Then to hear Birdland, which was later covered by Manhattan Transfer and Maynard Ferguson, and wonder. Hear the boost Pastorius gives this band, especially on his own compositions Havona and Teen Town . Heavy Weather reached number 30 on the Billboard album charts and its overall effect remains as breathtaking today as it was on day one. "
Chart successes
Billboard Music Charts (North America) album
- 1977 Heavy Weather : Jazz Albums: No. 1
- 1977 Heavy Weather : Pop Albums: No. 30th
- 1977 Heavy Weather : Black Albums: No. 33
literature
- Ralf Dombrowski : Basis-Diskothek Jazz (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 18372). Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-018372-3 , pp. 206-207.
Web links
- Weather Report Discography with many Notes: Heavy Weather (Engl.)
- Heavy Weather at Allmusic (English)
Individual references, comments
- ↑ for evidence cf. the web link discography
- ^ R. Dombrowski Basis-Diskothek Jazz Reclam: Stuttgart 2005
- ↑ The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
