I Sing the Body Electric (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = I Sing the Body Electric
Type = Studio album
Artist = Weather Report


Released = May 1972
Recorded = November 1971 - January 13, 1972
Genre = Jazz fusion
Length = 46:28
Label = Columbia Records
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8xtxlfdegcqe link]
Last album = "Weather Report"
(1971)
This album = "I Sing the Body Electric"
(1971)
Next album = "Live in Tokyo"
(1972)

The second album released by Weather Report from 1972. "I Sing the Body Electric" includes two new members of the band: percussionist Dom Um Romão and drummer Eric Gravatt. The last three tracks were recorded live in concert in Tokyo, Japan on January 13, 1972. These tracks have been edited for this album and can be heard in their entirety on Weather Report's 1972 import album "Live in Tokyo".

The album shares its title with a 1969 short story by Ray Bradbury. Both quote the opening line of the 1867 version of the eponymous Walt Whitman poem.

Track listing

#Unknown Soldier (Zawinul) – 8:00
#The Moors (Shorter) – 4:45
#Crystal (Vitous) – 7:25
#Second Sunday In August (Zawinul )– 4:13
#Medley: Vertical Invader/T.H./Dr. Honoris Causa – 10:40
#Surucucú (Shorter) – 7:42
#Directions (Zawinul) – 4:36

Personnel

Weather Report

*Josef Zawinul - Electric and acoustic piano, ARP 2600 synthesizer
*Wayne Shorter - Saxophones
*Miroslav Vitous - Bass
*Eric Gravatt - drums
*Dom Um Romão - Percussion

Special Guests

*Andrew White (saxophonist) - English horn ("Unknown Soldier" only)
*Wilmer Wise - D and piccolo trumpet
*Ralph Towner - 12-string guitar ("The Moors" only)
*Yolande Bavan - Voice
*Joshie Armstrong - Voice
*Chapman Roberts - Voice

External links

* [http://www.binkie.net/wrdisc/I%20Sing.html Weather Report Annotated Discography: I Sing the Body Electric]

References

*1. "I Sing the Body Electric" by Walt Whitman.