| Heavy Weather | 
| Artist: Weather Report
Label: Sony Music Canada Inc.
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 12.99
Buy New: CDN$ 5.23 (On sale from CDN$ 5.27)
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Seller: importcds__
Sales Rank: 9,030
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 074646510827
EAN: 0074646510827
ASIN: B000002AGE
Release Date: October 14, 1997
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Birdland | | • | A Remark You Made | | • | Teen Town | | • | Harlequin | | • | Rumba Mama | | • | Palladium | | • | The Juggler | | • | Havona |
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From Amazon.com
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
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