Weather Report Heavy Weather 1977 Columbia Records Original Vinyl LP NM
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Heavy Weather Studio album by Weather Report Released March 1977 Recorded Late 1976 – Early 1977 Studio Devonshire Sound Studios, North Hollywood, California Genre Jazz fusion Length 37:39 Label Columbia Producer Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter Weather Report chronology Black Market
(1976) Heavy Weather
(1977) Mr. Gone
(1978)
Heavy Weather is the eighth album by Weather Report, released in 1977 through Columbia Records. The release originally sold about 500,000 copies; it would prove to be the band's most commercially successful album. Heavy Weather received a 5-star review from Down Beat magazine and went on to be voted jazz album of the year by the readers of that publication.
Featuring the jazz standard "Birdland", the album is one of the best-sellers in the Columbia jazz catalog. This opening track was a significant commercial success, something not typical of instrumental music. The melody had been performed live by the band as part of "Dr Honoris Causa", which was from Joe Zawinul's eponymous solo album.
Although not mentioned as a live recording in the liner notes, "Rumba Mamá" (a percussion and vocals feature for Manolo Badrena and Alex Acuña) was recorded at the band's concert in Montreux in summer 1976, of which a film would be released on DVD in 2007.
Critical reception
Professional ratings Contemporary Review scores Source Rating Rolling Stone (Not Rated) The Rolling Stone Jazz Record GuideDan Oppenheimer in a June 1977 review for Rolling Stone felt the band had moved from their earlier music, losing a lot of the space, melodies and airy feel that marked them out from other jazz rock bands, but gaining a new bassist who "has been instrumental in developing their busier, talkative style", and that while their music previously "went up and up only; becoming more ethereal as it went; the new bottom makes all the difference in the world".
Legacy
Professional ratings Legacy Review scores Source Rating Allmusic ArtistdirectRichard Ginell commented in a retrospective review for Allmusic that it was released "just as the jazz-rock movement began to run out of steam", however he felt that "this landmark album proved that there was plenty of creative life left in the idiom."
In February 2011, Heavy Weather was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame.
The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Track listing
Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Birdland" Zawinul 5:57 2. "A Remark You Made" Zawinul 6:51 3. "Teen Town" Pastorius 2:51 4. "Harlequin" Shorter 3:59 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Rumba Mamá" Badrena, Acuña 2:11 2. "Palladíum" Shorter 4:46 3. "The Juggler" Zawinul 5:03 4. "Havona" Pastorius 6:01price rating
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