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Product Identifiers

Record LabelMocd, Music On CD

UPC8718627236772

eBay Product ID (ePID)15071191948

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2024

GenreJazz

ArtistWeather Report

Release TitleColumbia Albums 1971-1975

Dimensions

Item Height0.92 in

Item Weight0.49 lb

Item Length5.26 in

Item Width5.11 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs7

Number of Tracks45

Country/Region of ManufactureNetherlands

Tracks1.1 Milky Way 1.2 Umbrellas 1.3 Seventh Arrow 1.4 Orange Lady 1.5 Morning Lake 1.6 Waterfall 1.7 Tears 1.8 Eurydice (Album Version) 2.1 Unknown Soldiers 2.2 The Moors 2.3 Crystal (Album Version) 2.4 Second Sunday In August 2.5 Vertical Invader / T. H. / Dr. Honoris Causa (Live) 2.6 Surucucu (Live) 2.7 Directions (Live) 2.8 Directions (Take 1) 3.1 Medley: Vertical Invader / Seventh Arrow / T.H. / Doctor Honoris Causa (Live) 3.2 Medley: Surucucu / Lost / Early Minor / Direction (Live) 4.1 Orange Lady (Live) 4.2 Medley: Eurydice / The Moors (Live) 4.3 Medley: Tears / Umbrellas (Live) 5.1 Boogie Woogie Waltz 5.2 Manolete 5.3 Adios 5.4 125th Street Congress 5.5 Will 5.6 Non-Stop Home 5.7 125th Street Congress (DJ Logic Remix) 6.1 Nubian Sundance 6.2 American Tango 6.3 Cucumber Slumber 6.4 Mysterious Traveler 6.5 Blackthorn Rose 6.6 Scarlet Woman 6.7 Jungle Book 6.8 Cucumber Slumber (Live) 6.9 Nubian Sundance (Live) 7.1 Man In the Green Shirt 7.2 Lusitanos 7.3 Between the Thighs 7.4 Badia 7.5 Freezing Fire 7.6 Five Short Stories 7.7 Man In the Green Shirt (Live) 7.8 Directions / Dr. Honoris Causa (Live)

NotesFrom the early to mid-1970s saw some of the most adventurous and satisfying work of Weather Report's entire lifespan. It's these recordings - Weather Report, "I Sing the Body Electric", "Live In Tokyo", "Sweetnighter", "Mysterious Traveller" and "Tale Spinnin'" - that established Weather Report as one of the seminal fusion ensembles of the era, alongside such brethren bands as the Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Headhunters, and Return To Forever. The brainchild of the keyboardist and composer Joe Zawinul and the saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter, Weather Report, in it's early incarnations, also featured two brilliant bassists - first, Miroslav Vitous, followed by Alphonso Johnson - and a host of top-notch drummers and percussionists. Blending free form improvisation within a heady atmosphere that balanced lyrical flights of fancy with the bite of rock-textured sonics, the early albums announced the emergence of a daring band to be reckoned with. "Live In Tokyo", heard here in it's entirety, gave notice that Weather Report wasn't afraid to turn up the juice and rock an audience, while the critically acclaimed triumvirate of "Sweetnighter", "Mysterious Traveller" and "Tale Spinnin'", with new bassist Johnson onboard, introduced funk and R&B to the mix and solidified the bands reputation as possibly the most creative of contemporary fusion units. With remastered sound and authoritative liner notes by Bill Milkowski, Weather Report: The Columbia Albums 1971-1975, is also noteworthy for the inclusion of the complete "Live In Tokyo", which captures the band at a peak performance in 1972.