8:30

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8:30
Weather Report 830.jpg
Live album by
Weather Report
ReleasedAugust 1979
RecordedNovember 28, 1978 (and other dates in late 1978) [1]
Venue Terrace Theater, Long Beach, California (plus "other locations")
Genre Jazz fusion
Length80:58
Label ARC, Columbia
Producer Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius
Weather Report chronology
Mr. Gone
(1978)		8:30
(1979)		 Night Passage
(1980)

8:30 is the second live album from the jazz fusion group Weather Report, issued in 1979 by ARC/Columbia Records. [2] The album rose to No. 3 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart and No. 47 on the Billboard 200 chart. [3] [4] 8:30 also won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance. [5]

Contents

Recording

The album takes its name from the band's habit of starting their performance at 8:30 PM. At the time of the tour, the band was a quartet and would take the stage continuously for around two and a half hours, each of the members taking a solo. Wayne Shorter sometimes plays percussion instead of saxophone on stage, and on one of the studio tracks, the calypso inspired "Brown Street", Joe Zawinul's son Erich plays percussion with Erskine and Pastorius.

Jaco Pastorius played a notable solo on "Slang" [6] which started with an out-of-time rendition of "Dolores" by Wayne Shorter, then melded a multi-part bass solo using a rack-mounted MXR digital delay, leading into references to "Third Stone from the Sun" by Jimi Hendrix, [6] "Portrait of Tracy" from his solo work, then "The Sound of Music". He finished playing his bass with its own strap.

According to Peter Erskine, the band had planned for the entire album to be live, but an engineer accidentally erased some of the material, prompting the band to go into the studio to record the fourth side. [7]

Release

The album was originally a double gatefold LP. In the US, the reissue on CD dropped "Scarlet Woman", as the album's running time narrowly exceeds the Red Book standard's maximum running time for a single CD. The album was released as a 2-CD set outside the US.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [6]
Christgau's Record Guide B+ [8]
Music Week Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [9]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Record Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [11]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [12]

Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "The live double their more bemused admirers have waited for years is indeed Weather Report's most (if not first) useful album. But it also defines their limits. This is a band that runs the gamut from the catchy to the mysterioso. Joe Zawinul is the best sound effects man since Shadow Morton. And when he gives himself room, Wayne Shorter can blow." [8] Bill Meredith of Allmusic declared, "Weather Report is generally regarded as the greatest jazz fusion band of all time, with the biggest jazz hit ("Birdland") from the best jazz fusion album (1977's Heavy Weather). But the group's studio mastery sometimes overshadows the fact that it was also a live juggernaut -- so don't overlook the outstanding live and studio album from 1979, 8:30." [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Joe Zawinul, except where noted

Side One
No.TitleLength
1."Black Market"9:47
2."Scarlet Woman" ( Alphonso Johnson, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul )8:42
Side Two
No.TitleLength
1."Teen Town" ( Jaco Pastorius )6:03
2."A Remark You Made"8:01
3."Slang" (Pastorius)4:45
4."In a Silent Way"2:47
Side Three
No.TitleLength
1."Birdland"7:13
2."Thanks for the Memory" ( Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger )3:33
3."Medley: Badia/Boogie Woogie Waltz"9:32
Side Four
No.TitleLength
1."8:30"2:36
2."Brown Street" (Zawinul, Shorter)8:34
3."The Orphan"3:17
4."Sightseeing" (Shorter)5:34

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Bianchi, Curt. "8:30". www.WeatherReportDiscography.org. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  2. ↑ Weather Report - 8:30. ARC/Columbia Records. 1979.
  3. ↑ "Billboard Best Selling Jazz LPs". Billboard Magazine . Vol. 91, no. 46. November 17, 1979. p. 56 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "Weather Report: 8:30 (Billboard 200)". billboard.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Weather Report". grammy.com. The Recording Academy.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Meredith, Bill. "Weather Report - 8:30 (1979) album review, credits & releases". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  7. ↑ Glaser, Brian (2001). In a Silent Way: A Portrait of Joe Zawinul. Sanctuary Publishing. pp. 213–214. ISBN   1860743269.
  8. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: W". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved March 22, 2019– via robertchristgau.com.
  9. ↑ "Album Reviews: Weather Report — 8:30" (PDF). Music Week . Gwent: Pensord Press Ltd. October 6, 1979. p. 44. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 1, 2025. Retrieved April 5, 2025– via WorldRadioHistory.com.
  10. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1475. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  11. ↑ Kluth, Susan (September 29, 1979). "Weather Report 8:30". Record Mirror . Vol. 26, no. 39. p. 22.
  12. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. US: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 204. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
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