Black Market (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Black Market
Type = Studio album
Artist = Weather Report


Released = April 1976
Recorded = December 1975 – January 1976
Genre = Jazz fusion
Length = 36:55
Label = Columbia
Producer = Wayne Shorter
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:xe5g8qfbbt04 link]
Last album = "Tale Spinnin'"
(1975)
This album = "Black Market"
(1976)
Next album = "Heavy Weather"
(1977)

"Black Market" is an instrumental jazz fusion album released by Weather Report in 1976. This album was produced by Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. It was recorded in December 1975 and released in April 1976 through Columbia Records. Columbia released it again as a digitally-remastered CD in 1991.

This is Weather Report's sixth album and the first with the bass player Jaco Pastorius who features on two tracks. The album draws heavily from African influences and its style could be described as "world fusion". The second song, "Cannon Ball" is tribute to Zawinul's then recently deceased former band leader, saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley.

Track listing

# "Black Market" (J. Zawinul) – 6:28
# "Cannon Ball" (J. Zawinul) – 4:36
# "Gibraltar" (J. Zawinul) – 8:16
# "Elegant People" (W. Shorter) – 5:03
# "Three Clowns" (W. Shorter) – 3:31
# "Barbary Coast" (J. Pastorius) – 3:19
# "Herandnu" (A. Johnson) – 6:36

Personnel

* Joe Zawinul — 2 ARP 2600, Rhodes electric piano, Yamaha grand piano, Oberheim polyphonic synthesizer
* Wayne Shorter — Selmer soprano and tenor saxophones, Computone Lyricon
* Alphonso Johnson — Fender electric bass, Charles La Boe electric bass (tracks 1,3,4,5,7)
* Jaco Pastorius — Fender Fretless electric bass (tracks 2,6)
* Chester Thompson — Ludwig drums
* Narada Michael Walden — Drums
* Don Alias — Congas and percussion
* Alejandro Neciosup Acuña — LP congas and percussion

External links

* [http://www.binkie.net/wrdisc/Black%20Market.html Weather Report Annotated Discography: Black Market]