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Tale Spinnin'
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Man in the Green Shirt; Lusitanos; Between the Thighs; Badia; Freezing Fire; Five Short Stories.
Meet Tomasz Stanko
by AAJ Staff
Jazz of the '50s and '60s shared the overtly political side of much music from the period. Black musicians in the States and expatriates in Europe used their music as a platform for radical ideas that would reach a presumably sympathetic audience. Going back even further in history demonstrates the role jazz played in both breaking ...
Weather Report: Live and Unreleased
by Todd S. Jenkins
Columbia/Legacy have dug even deeper into their closets and dusted off eighteen excellent live performances by one of fusion's finest units. These tracks, recorded between 1975 and 1983, represent several different lineups of the band whose only permanent members were Shorter and Zawinul. As iffy as some of Weather Report's studio albums were -- too often ...
Weather Report: The Best Of Weather Report
by Jim Santella
Selected from seven albums that were recorded between 1973 and 1980, Columbia's “best of" collection of Weather Report hits makes a memorable impression. The band will never be forgotten. Throughout its 15-year existence, the jazz-rock fusion band regularly stirred a large body of emotions through its unique sound. No one else had that particular combination, which ...
Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music
by Mark Corroto
The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...
Weather Report: Black Market
by Todd S. Jenkins
Another key turning point in the colorful evolution of Weather Report. Around the same time that Alphonso Johnson replaced founding bassist Miroslav Vitous in 1974, the band moved towards a new sound centered around electronic instruments and studio experimentation. The vital funk and soul grooves that Johnson brought into the band helped them pull off that ...
Weather Report: The Best of Weather Report
by Todd S. Jenkins
A long-overdue homage to perhaps the greatest fusion ensemble of all time. Centered around the molten core of Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, Weather Report transcended category and gave shape to a fresh, vital form of improvised music during their decade-plus of prominence. Putting together a best-of from such a chameleonic entity had to be a ...
Weather Report: Mysterious Traveller
by Todd S. Jenkins
In 1974, three years after the band's inception, Weather Report became one of the world's most popular jazz groups due to their uncompromising originality and musicianship. This was the year that founding member Miroslav Vitous was replaced by Alphonso Johnson, who became a critical asset as both a fluid, creative bassist and a composer. Drummer Ishmael ...
Weather Report: Tale Spinnin'
by Todd S. Jenkins
Weather Report followed up their imaginative Mysterious Traveller with this too-short but exciting offering in 1975. For the time being, the lineup had jelled around Zawinul, Shorter and Johnson, with Santana drummer Ndugu and percussionist Lima coming through the revolving door of rhythm. Inspired this time around by the spirits of dance and song, the group ...
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