Black Market (Weather Report album)

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Black Market
Weather Report - Black Market.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 11, 1976
RecordedDecember 1975 – January 1976
Studio Devonshire Sound Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length37:20
Label Columbia
Producer Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter
Weather Report chronology
Tale Spinnin'
(1975)
Black Market
(1976)
Heavy Weather
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Black Market is the sixth studio album by American jazz fusion band Weather Report. Released in 1976, it was produced by Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. It was recorded between December 1975 and January 1976 and released in March 1976 through Columbia Records. [5]

Contents

This is Weather Report's first studio album to feature bass player Jaco Pastorius; he appears on two tracks, one of which was his own composition "Barbary Coast". The back cover photo shows Pastorius, Chester Thompson, and Alex Acuña with the band, although bass player Alphonso Johnson played on the majority of the record's tracks. The album draws heavily from African influences, and its style could be described as "world fusion". The second track, "Cannon Ball", is a tribute to saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Zawinul's employer for several years during the 1960s. Adderley died a few months before Black Market was recorded.

Track listing

Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Black Market" Joe Zawinul 6:28
2."Cannon Ball"Zawinul4:36
3."Gibraltar"Zawinul8:16
Total length:19:18
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
4."Elegant People" Wayne Shorter 5:03
5."Three Clowns"Shorter3:31
6."Barbary Coast" Jaco Pastorius 3:19
7."Herandnu" Alphonso Johnson 6:36
Total length:18:20

Personnel

Weather Report

Production

References

  1. Ginell, Richard S. "Black Market - Weather Report". AllMusic. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1475. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 204. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  4. Campbell, Hernan M. (November 25, 2012). "Review: Weather Report - Black Market | Sputnikmusic". sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
  5. "Black Market". June 25, 2015.
  6. Chester Thompson: 10 albums that define my career - "The funny part is, I actually taught Phil Collins the In The Air Tonight drum fill" - article by Stuart Williams in Music Radar, 20 February 2024