🎷 AotW: Jazz Weather Report - BLACK MARKET

[Captain Bacardi]

Weather Report
BLACK MARKET
Columbia Records PC 34099

Released 1976

Peaked at #2 on the Jazz Album chart, #20 on the R&B chart and #42 on the Billboard 200 chart

Produced by Joe Zawinul
Co-Producer: Wayne Shorter

Songs:

1. Black Market (Joe Zawinul) - 6:30​

2. Cannon Ball (Joe Zawinul) - 4:35​

3. Gibraltar (Joe Zawinul) - 7:45​

4. Elegant People (Wayne Shorter) - 5:02​

5. Three Clowns (Wayne Shorter) - 3:14​

6. Barbary Coast (Jaco Pastorius) - 3:05​

7. Herandnu (Alphonso Johnson) - 6:35​

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Musicians:
Joe Zawinul - 2 ARP 2600, Rhodes Electric Piano, Yamaha Grand Piano, Oberheim Polyphonic Synthesizer
Wayne Shorter - Selmer Soprano and Tenor Saxophones, Lyricon by Computone
Alphonso Johnson - Bass (1, 3, 4, 5, 7)
Chester Thompson - Drums
Alejandro Neciosup Acuna - Congas and Percussion
Jaco Pastorius - Fender Bass (2, 6)
Narada Michael Walden - Drums (1, 2)
Don Alias - Congas and Percussion (1)

Recorded at Devonshire Sound, Nrth Hollywood, CA
Engineer: Ron Malo
Illustration: Dave McMacken
Photos: Ed Caraeff
Cover Concept: Maxine
Design: Nancy Donald

This album available at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Market-...7&sr=1-1&keywords=weather+report+black+market




Capt. Bacardi

 

[Dave]

Despite synths, amplified sax's & Alphonso Johnson's heavy-weight bass work, as opposed to the more lighter & truer approach to a jazz bass of Jaco Pastorious (and only making it on a couple of cuts) this is a very good album, though not quite an introductory work as the first Weather Report album...

The obvious reference point is "Cannon Ball", a workable tribute to the great-Adderley it's named after (my favorite), while "Gibraltar", "Elegant People", "Three Clowns" and "Barbary Coast" are equally thematic in this set without getting lost in any pretensions...

Which, at this point the certain carried away most artists even of this high caliber in this decade had allowed their works to have gotten to...


-- Dave

 

[Captain Bacardi]

This is probably my favorite Weather Report album. I love the song "Black Market" with its shifting meters and solid rhythm section work. "Elegant People" is a true highlight where Wayne Shorter gets some actual playing time. "Barbary Coast" is true Jaco. A solid album throughout.



Capt. Bacardi