8:30

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8:30
8:30 cover
Live album by Weather Report
Released 1979
Genre Jazz fusion
Label Columbia Records
Producer(s) Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius
Professional reviews
Weather Report chronology
Mr. Gone
(1978)		 8:30
(1979)		 Night Passage
(1980)


8:30 is a live (with occasional studio overdub) album by the jazz fusion group Weather Report. Among other titles, it features a live version of the group's signature piece, "Birdland".

The album takes its name from the band's habit of starting their performance at 8:30pm. At the time of the tour, the band were a four piece who would take the stage continuously for around two and a half hours, each of the members taking a solo spot to give not just a virtuoso performance, but to give the others a break. On the studio tracks only Joe Zawinul's son Erich plays drums.

The 8:30 tour saw Weather Report at the height of their commercial success, and the playlist leant heavily on the recent successes, "Black Market", "Birdland" and "Teen Town".

Jaco Pastorius played a notable solo, "Slang", which melded a multi-part bass solo using tape loops, leading into references to "Third Stone from the Sun" by Jimi Hendrix, "Portrait of Tracy" from his own solo work, then onto "(The Hills are Alive with) The Sound of Music". He finished off flaying his bass within an inch of its life with its own strap.

The album was originally a double gatefold album but the reissue on CD dropped a track and was released as a single CD.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Black Market" – 9:47
  2. "Teen Town" – 8:01
  3. "A Remark You Made" – 6:55
  4. "Slang" – 4:45
  5. "In a Silent Way" – 2:47
  6. "Birdland" – 7:13
  7. "Thanks for the Memory" – 3:33
  8. "Medley: Badia/Boogie Woogie Waltz" – 9:32
  9. "8:30" – 2:36
  10. "Brown Street" – 8:34
  11. "The Orphan" – 3:17
  12. "Sightseeing" – 5:34

[edit] Personnel

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