Weather Report | |
Type: | Studio album |
Artist: | Weather Report |
Cover: | Weather Report album-cover.jpg |
Released: | May 12, 1971 |
Recorded: | February 16–18, 22 & March 17, 1971 |
Genre: | Jazz fusion |
Length: | 40:05 |
Label: | Columbia |
Producer: | Shoviza Productions |
Next Title: | Live in Tokyo |
Next Year: | 1972 |
Weather Report is the debut studio album by American jazz fusion band Weather Report, released on May 12, 1971, by Columbia Records. The album was reissued by Sony and digitally remastered by Vic Anesini in November 1991 at Sony Music Studios in New York City.
Writing on the back sleeve of the album, Clive Davis, the then president of Columbia Records, opines: "There have always been two kinds of musicians-those who create and those who imitate. Weather Report creates. It is that rare thing in music, an original […] Together these gifted young musicians have created Weather Report, a soundtrack for the mind, the imagination, for opening up heads and hearts."
Reviewing in (1981), Robert Christgau called the album "In a Silent Way played mostly for atmosphere", and went on to write: "The Milesian demi-jazz of side two sounds pretty finky (no misprint intended), but the tone-poem impressionism of side one does its mysterious work. Highlight: the opening mood piece, 'Milky Way,' in which two Silent Way vets, soprano saxophonist Wayne Shorter and pianist Joe Zawinul, make sounds that suggest a carillon approaching a time warp."
Credits for Weather Report adapted from liner notes.[1]
Weather Report
Other musicians
Production