Heavy Weather (album)
Heavy Weather is Weather Report's seventh album, released in 1977 through Columbia Records. It is the band's second album with bassist Jaco Pastorius. On Black Market, Pastorius played on two of the seven tracks, but here he is a full member of the band.
Featuring the jazz standard "Birdland", the album is one of the best-sellers in the Columbia jazz catalog. Heavy Weather is considered a landmark album in the jazz-rock or fusion movement of the 1970s. Its opening track, "Birdland", was a significant commercial success, something not typical of instrumental music. The Birdland melody had been performed live by the band as part of Dr Honoris Causa, which was from Zawinul's eponymous solo album. A striking feature of Birdland is Pastorius picking harmonics on his fretless bass, although recordings exist of live performance of the theme prior to Pastorius joining the band when it was purely a keyboard section.
Background, recording, and production
Musical style, writing, and composition
Reception
The album received positive reviews since its publication. American music journalist Richard Ginell gave the album the maximum rating, five stars out of five, and concluded his review for Allmusic by stating that, "[r]eleased just as the jazz-rock movement began to run out of steam, this landmark album proved that there was plenty of creative life left in the idiom."[1]
Accolades
In February 2011, Heavy Weather was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame.[5]
Track listing
| Writer(s) |
| 1. |
"Birdland" |
Zawinul |
5:57 |
| 2. |
"A Remark You Made" |
Zawinul |
6:51 |
| 3. |
"Teen Town" |
Pastorius |
2:51 |
| 4. |
"Harlequin" |
Shorter |
3:59 |
| Writer(s) |
| 1. |
"Rumba Mamá" |
Badrena, Acuña |
2:11 |
| 2. |
"Palladíum" |
Shorter |
4:46 |
| 3. |
"The Juggler" |
Zawinul |
5:03 |
| 4. |
"Havona" |
Pastorius |
6:01 |
Personnel
- Weather Report
- Joe Zawinul – 2 ARP 2600 on all tracks except "Rumba Mamá", Rhodes electric piano on all tracks except "Birdland", "Rumba Mamá" and "Havona", Yamaha grand piano on "Birdland", "Harlequin", "The Juggler" and "Havona", Oberheim polyphonic synthesizer on all tracks except "Rumba Mamá", "Palladíum" and "The Juggler", vocal on "Birdland", melodica on "Birdland" and "Teen Town", and guitar and tabla on "The Juggler".
- Wayne Shorter – Soprano saxophone on all tracks except "A Remark You Made" and "Rumba Mamá", and tenor saxophone on "Birdland"", "A Remark You Made" and "Palladíum"
- Jaco Pastorius – Electric bass on all tracks except "Rumba Mamá", mandocello on "Birdland" and "The Juggler", vocals on "Birdland", drums on "Teen Town", steel drums on "Palladíum"
- Alex Acuña – Drum set on all tracks except "Teen Town" and "Rumba Mamá, congas and tom-toms on "Rumba Mamá", and handclaps on "The Juggler"
- Manolo Badrena – Tambourine on "Birdland", congas on "Teen Town", "Rumba Mamá" and "Palladíum", vocal on "Harlequin" and "Rumba Mamá", timbales on "Rumba Mamá", and percussion on "Palladíum" and "The Juggler"
- Production
Chart positions
Release history
The album was first released in LP format worldwide throughout Columbia Records, CBS Records, Sony Records, and other minor record labels. In 1984, it was first released in CD format in the U.S. on Columbia Records. In 1992, the album was remastered, and, in 2002, published in Super Audio CD format.[8]
- See the table below for a more comprehensive list of the album releases.[8]
| Year |
Format |
Label |
Country |
Note |
| 1977 |
LP |
Columbia (PC 34418) |
Canada, U.S. |
— |
| CBS, Sony (25AP 357) |
Japan |
| CBS ([CBS ][S ]81775) |
Italy, Netherlands, UK, U.S. |
| Suzy (CBS 81775/P 1977) |
Yugoslavia |
Published as Heavy Rain |
| CBS (SBP 234974) |
Australia |
— |
| 1979 |
Supraphon, CBS (1115 2490) |
Czechoslovakia |
Published as Weather Report |
| 1981 |
Columbia (HC 44418) |
U.S. |
— |
| 1983 |
CBS (CBS 32358) |
Europe |
| 1984 |
CD |
Columbia (CK 34418) |
U.S. |
| 1991 |
Columbia (468209 2) |
| 1992 |
Columbia (CK 47481) |
Remastered |
| 1994 |
CD, Gold CD |
Columbia, Legacy, Master Sound (CK 64427) |
| 1997 |
CD, MD |
M] 65108), (01-065108-10) |
Europe, U.S. |
| 2002 |
SACD |
Columbia, Legacy (CS 65108) |
U.S. |
References
- ^ a b Ginell, Richard S. (2011 [last update]). "Heavy Weather - Weather Report". AllMusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/heavy-weather-r149930/review. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
- ^ "Heavy Weather by Weather Report". ARTISTdirect.com. http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,183636,00.html. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
- ^ Oppenheimer, Dan (2011 [last update]). "Heavy Weather : Weather Report : Review : Rolling Stone". web.archive.org. http://web.archive.org/web/20090227173849/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/136065/review/6067591?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
- ^ "Weather Report - Heavy Weather (album review)". Sputnikmusic. August 16, 2005. http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/3227/Weather-Report-Heavy-Weather/. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
- ^ Sterdan, Darryl [QMI Agency] (Fevruary 13, 2011). "Ramones get lifetime achievement". Conoe.ca. http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Grammys/2011/2011/02/13/17258021.html. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
- ^ "Weather Report - Heavy Weather". swedishcharts.com. http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Weather+Report&titel=Heavy+Weather&cat=a. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Heavy Weather > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
- ^ a b "Weather Report – Heavy Weather". Discogs. http://www.discogs.com/Weather-Report-Heavy-Weather/master/21748. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
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