Weather Report isn´t as good as the two other bands IMO though. The jazz/ fusion style is of course something all Lacks the speed of light style of both mentioned bands. People always mention Return to Forever and Mahavishnu Orchestra when talking about Weather Reportīut at least on this debut album from Weather Report the comparison isn´t that true. Posted Tuesday, Aug| Review this album | Report (Review #132165) With its successor, this album is clearly teir most progressive.

Personally, I always preferred the Vitous-era as they were truly groundbreaking and along Jazz than the Z-S duo had done in quite a while.Īn impeccable album, but not likely suited for everyone as it is much slower than you'd expect a WR album, especially for those Short-changed in terms of songwriting credits up to now, but he gets to close the album with two tracks, first the again-slow (butīrooding and menacing) Tears (astounding track with celestial voices) and the funkier Eurydice, which is much closer to conventional More rapid than the Morning Lake, but obviously the cool Shorter breeze is not yet shaking the night's torpor. While Shorter's sax is the cool breeze setting the mist apart to let the sunrays grace our ears. The flipside opens on the magical Morning Lake, with zawinul's Rhodes layering the track as to allow vitous to soar with his bass, Zawinul-penned Orange Lady, starting out lazily under the noontime sun, and then simply roasting under the scorching sun. Mosquito around our ears until Zawinul derails the train into cosmic heights with his weird synths layers. On Seventh Arrow (a Vitous track), Zawinul's Fender Rhodes takes us sky-bound with Shorter's sax hovering like a Reaching a strange metamorphosed Miles jazz-funk (Umbrellas) that takes away the pleasantness and replacing it with cold hard Right from the first twitches of Milky Way, we just know we're in for a long strange trip, as the music flirts with atonalities, then Released inħ1 on the Columbia banner with a strange abstract artwork, WR's debut would take the JR scene by storm. Moreira and drummer Alphonse Mouzon, thus creating a real supergroup or an all-star line-up as the jazz circles prefer it. The Czech-born Miroslav Vitous, (which will become an indispensable early WR's pillar) than secured Brazilian-born percussionist Airto Musical adventure a notch further and improvising so well and inspired, that you'd swear the whole thing is written.

But to everyone's surprise, WR's debut only took BB as a starting point and expanded on it, pushing the With two WR members emanating from Miles' Bitches Brew line-up (Zawinul and Shorter), it was obvious that their first album wouldīe heavily influenced by it.

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