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Weather Report, Heavy Weather
Audio CD
Disk ID: 241209
Disk length: 37m 55s (8 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1999
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Birdland | 6:00 |
| 2. A Remark You Made | 6:55 |
| 3. Teen Town | 2:52 |
| 4. Harlequin | 4:00 |
| 5. Rumba mama | 2:11 |
| 6. Palladium | 4:47 |
| 7. The Juggler | 5:04 |
| 8. Havana | 6:00 |
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Review
Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter didn't truly fulfill Weather Report's artistic and commercial potential until they brought on-board a bassist who could function as an equal partner in the musical equation, like co-founder Miroslav Vitous, whose main shortcoming was his inability to play funk. In renegade bassist Jaco Pastorius, the band found a formidable composer and improvisor, who possessed deep roots in funk and R&B, yet was equally at home in modern jazz and Afro-Cuban settings. Not coincidentally, the presence of this innovative fretless bassist on Heavy Weather gave Weather Report the rhythmic/melodic dimension it had been missing since Vitous's departure, as evidenced by his voice-like declamations on Zawinul's ballad "A Remark You Made." On Zawinul's chart-topping, big band-styled arrangement of "Birdland," Pastorius provided the kind of big, sweeping orchestral gestures the tune required, while on the shifting canvas of Wayne Shorter's "Harlequin," the bassist's ability to articulate complex chords allowed him to function as a string section unto himself. And on his own "Havona," Pastorius not only soloed with horn-like artistry, but combined with drummer Alex Acuna and percussionist Manolo Badrena to give Weather Report its funkiest rhythm section ever. --Chip Stern
Other Versions
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
Tracks: 8, Disk length: 37m 54s (-1m 59s)
Tracks: 8, Disk length: 37m 54s (-1m 59s)
Tracks: 8, Disk length: 37m 54s (-1m 59s)
Tracks: 8, Disk length: 37m 53s (-1m 58s)
Tracks: 8, Disk length: 37m 57s (+0m 2s)
Tracks: 8, Disk length: 37m 52s (-1m 57s)
Tracks: 8, Disk length: 37m 51s (-1m 56s)
Tracks: 8, Disk length: 37m 49s (-1m 54s)
Tracks: 8, Disk length: 38m 6s (+0m 11s)
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Tracks: 12 (+4 tracks), Disk length: 1h 8m 9s (+30m 14s)
Tracks: 15 (+7 tracks), Disk length: 1h 13m 44s (+35m 49s)
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