Weather Report - Tale Spinnin'
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Artist: Weather ReportEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Running Time: 43 unknown-units
Published: 2002-06-04
CD Release Date: 2002-06-04
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Man in the Green Shirt
- Lusitanos
- Between the Thighs
- Badia
- Freezing Fire
- Five Short Stories
Free Music Notes for Tale Spinnin'
Free Music Review: Weather Report"s most underated Offering
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't understand the tepid assessment of this album. It is one of my favorites of all time in any genre. It stands the test of time, sounding vibrant as ever some 30 years down the road. It is as contemporary today as ever, being the bedrock on which virtually all world jazz is built on. And for the most part, (with a few notable exceptions,) they did it more convincingly and with less self consciousness than anything being done today.
When I first bought the vinyl I back in 1975 I was hoping for the same great energy as Mysterious Traveler and was initially disappointed. It took almost a year before I revisited this album. Perhaps I had matured enough to appreciate it by then, but it eventually it became one of my all time favorites, and it still ranks up there with my absolute favorite Weather Report recordings.
This was a transitional period for the band. Miroslav was out and Alfonso Johnson's funkier bass was now driving the bottom, enabling the band to move in a whole other direction. It's a great blend of wild jamming and tight compositions. Starting right out of the gate, The Man with the Green shirt is one of the great Zawinul compositions. It is Joy itself, an unselfconscious ecstatic celebration of Life.
There are no fillers here. Luisitanos, a quintessential Shorter composition exhibits all the classic Shorter touches, angular and emotional yet cooly logical in its phrasing. It features Joe in a (then) rare acoustic piano solo, simultaneously at his most relaxed and most burning. 'Between the Thighs' is a loose, rambling space-funk romp, yet is it also full of complex tutti passages and rhythmic depth .It's got a lot of thorny ensemble writing, yet it unfurls as naturally as a peacock spreads its feathers. It's as though the whole band is hooked up here, interacting and relating as one. It takes the listener on a journey to the swamplands of the Mississippi Delta, the high desert in north africa, and winds up in a party somewhere in the tropics on Mars. I have taken that trip a thousand times, yet every time they play that dreamy part with the tubular bells it takes my breath away. I think Stravinsky (as well as Ellington) would've gotten a kick out of this music.
Badia is an incredibly prescient view into areas musicians would be exploring some thirty years hence, but this was 1975(!), and these gentlemen were already masters of world jazz, a genre yet to be named and in many ways never surpassed. 'Freezing Fire' is another burning Shorter composition, and in it's afterglow, the album winds down with the reflective and intriguing, ''Five Short Stories', another great Zawinul composition.
Because of the joy and affirmation it communicates, I play this CD on special occasions, when I am feeling like I need a boost, or when I feel most alive, and embarassing as it might be to admit it, sometimes I'll put on candles, turn off the lights and dance to it! For this is a CD that embodies the Dance of Life.
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