Weather Report (1971 album)

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


Released = May 1971
Recorded = February 16, 1971 - March 17, 1971
Genre = Jazz fusion
Length = 40:05
Label = Original and 1992 Reissue: Columbia Records
2001 Remaster: Sony
Producer = Reissue: John Snyder
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7zdaylm8xpsb link]
Last album =
This album = "Weather Report "
(1971)
Next album = "I Sing the Body Electric"
(1971)

Originally Released in May of 1971, "Weather Report" was the first album by the group of the same name. The album was reissued by Columbia Records in 1992. The album was digitally remastered by Vic Anesini in November 1991 at Sony Music Studios in New York City, and then released again under the Sony International label. The style of music on this album can be described as avant-garde jazz with electric instruments. It continues the style of Miles Davis album "Bitches Brew" on which Zawinul and Shorter played but goes perhaps even further with experimentation.

Track listing

#"Milky Way" (Shorter, Zawinul) – 2:33
#"Umbrellas" (Shorter, Vitous, Zawinul) – 3:27
#"Seventh Arrow" (Vitous) – 5:23
#"Orange Lady" (Zawinul) – 8:44
#"Morning Lake" (Vitous) – 4:26
#"Waterfall" (Zawinul) – 6:20
#"Tears" (Shorter) – 3:25
#"Eurydice" (Shorter) – 5:45

Personnel

*Wayne Shorter - Tenor and soprano saxophones
*Joe Zawinul - Electric and acoustic piano
*Miroslav Vitous - Electric and acoustic bass
*Alphonse Mouzon - Drums, voice
*Airto Moreira - Percussion

with

*Barbara Burton - Percussion (uncredited)
*Don Alias - Percussion (uncredited)

Awards

*"Jazz Album of the Year," "Down Beat" Readers Poll.
*"Swing Journal" magazine Grand Prix Award (a gold record given for winning the Journal's Readers' and Critics' polls).

External links

* [http://www.binkie.net/wrdisc/Weather%20Report%201971.html Weather Report Annotated Discography: Weather Report]