The shifts in Weather Report's personnel come fast and furious now, with Narada Michael Walden and Chester Thompson as the drummers, Alex Acuna and Don Alias at the percussion table, and Alphonso Johnson giving way to the mighty, martyred Jaco Pastorius.
It is interesting to hear Pastorius expanding the bass role only incrementally over what the more funk-oriented Johnson was doing at this early point -- that is, until "Barbary Coast," where suddenly Jaco leaps athletically forward into the spotlight.
Joe Zawinul or just Zawinul, as he preferred to be billed -- contributed all of side one's compositions, mostly Third World-flavored workouts except for "Cannon Ball," a touching tribute to his ex-boss Cannonball Adderley (who had died the year before).
Shorter, Pastorius, and Johnson split the remainder of the tracks, with Shorter now set in a long-limbed compositional mode for electric bands that would serve him into the 1990s.
While it goes without saying that most Weather Report albums are transition albums, this diverse record is even more transient than most, paving the way for WR's most popular period while retaining the old sense of adventure.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black MarketJoe Zawinul | Weather Report | Play | 06:30 | 14 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | Cannon BallJoe Zawinul | Weather Report | Play | 04:40 | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | GibraltarJoe Zawinul | Weather Report | Play | 07:49 | 17 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | Elegant PeopleWayne Shorter | Weather Report | Play | 05:03 | 11 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | Three ClownsWayne Shorter | Weather Report | Play | 03:27 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | Barbary CoastJaco Pastorius | Weather Report | Play | 03:10 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 7 | Herandu | Weather Report | Play | 06:38 | 15 MB | 0 MB |
| 8 | Portrait of Tracy (Live) | Weather Report | Play | 05:56 | 13 MB | 0 MB |
| 9 | Elegant People (Live) | Weather Report | Play | 04:27 | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| 10 | Black Market (Live) | Weather Report | Play | 09:28 | 21 MB | 0 MB |
| 57 mins | 131 MB | |||||
| 0 mins | 0 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alejandro Neciosup Acuña | Congas, Percussion |
| 2 | Alex Acuña | Congas, Percussion |
| 3 | Don Alias | Congas, Percussion |
| 4 | Bob Belden | Reissue Producer |
| 5 | Steven Berkowitz | A&R |
| 6 | Ed Caraeff | Photography |
| 7 | Linda Chang | Packaging Manager |
| 8 | Nancy Donald | Design |
| 9 | Don Elias | Congas, Percussion |
| 10 | Seth Foster | Mastering |
| 11 | Howard Fritzson | Art Direction |
| 12 | Alphonso Johnson | Bass, Bass (Electric), Composer |
| 13 | Ron Malo | Engineer |
| 14 | Randall Martin | Desaccordee |
| 15 | Patti Matheny | A&R |
| 16 | David McMacken | Illustrations |
| 17 | Hal Miller | Liner Notes |
| 18 | Jaco Pastorius | Bass, Bass (Electric), Composer |
| 19 | Seth Rothstein | Project Director |
| 20 | Darren Salmieri | Artist Coordination |
| 21 | Wayne Shorter | Assistant Producer, Composer, Lyre, Producer, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Saxophone |
| 22 | Chester Thompson | Drums |
| 23 | Narada Michael Walden | Drums |
| 24 | Weather Report | Primary Artist |
| 25 | Mark Wilder | Mastering |
| 26 | Joe Zawinul | Arp 2600, Composer, Fender Rhodes, Keyboards, Oberheim Synthesizer, Orchestration, Piano, Piano (Electric), Piano (Grand), Producer, Synthesizer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |