Weather Report – Heavy Weather (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Sony / CBS Records (1977)
$50.00
Scarce Japanese First Pressing ~ Still In Immaculate Condition & Complete With Highly Collectable Obi Strip! Includes Insert. Featuring Brilliant Bassist, Jaco Pastorious, ‘Heavy Weather’ Is Regarded As The Best Album In The Fine Oeuvre Of Weather Report.
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Scarce Japanese First Pressing ~ Still In Immaculate Condition & Complete With Highly Collectable Obi Strip! Includes Insert. Featuring Brilliant Bassist, Jaco Pastorious, ‘Heavy Weather’ Is Regarded As The Best Album In The Fine Oeuvre Of Weather Report.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Sound quality is wonderful!
Condition – Cover: NEAR MINT! Beautifully preserved for over 41 years.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Top condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer — and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Joe Zawinul – Keyboards
Wayne Shorter – Saxophones
Jaco Pastorius – Bass
Manolo Badrena – Percussion
Alex Acuña – Drums
Side 1:
Birdland
A Remark You Made
Teen Town
Harlequin
Side 2:
Rumba Mamá
Palladium
The Juggler
Havona
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Weather Report's biggest-selling album is that ideal thing, a popular and artistic success -- and for the same reasons. For one thing, Joe Zawinul revealed an unexpectedly potent commercial streak for the first time since his Cannonball Adderley days, contributing what has become a perennial hit, "Birdland." Indeed, "Birdland" is a remarkable bit of record-making, a unified, ever-developing piece of music that evokes, without in any way imitating, a joyous evening on 52nd St. with a big band. The other factor is the full emergence of Jaco Pastorius as a co-leader; his dancing, staccato bass lifting itself out of the bass range as a third melodic voice, completely dominating his own ingenious "Teen Town" (where he also plays drums!). By now, Zawinul has become WR's de facto commander in the studio; his colorful synthesizers dictate the textures, his conceptions are carefully planned, with little of the freewheeling improvisation of only five years before. Wayne Shorter's saxophones are now reticent, if always eloquent, beams of light in Zawinul's general scheme while Alex Acuña shifts ably over to the drums and Manolo Badrena handles the percussion. Released just as the jazz-rock movement began to run out of steam, this landmark album proved that there was plenty of creative life left in the idiom.