TALE SPINNIN'

This record contains very good funky jazz music. It still contains some relaxing, floating and experimental moments like on the previous record "Mysterious traveller", but less intensively; it is really disciplined and well structured! The bass and drums can be really fast, like on "Man in the green shirt" and on "Freezing fire". The VERY expressive saxes are omnipresent and they are played quite loud. The songs can be quite rhythmic and very colorful. The keyboards complete well the arrangements and they fully participate to the musical output. There are some primitive percussions too: it gives an African influence to the whole. I would say this record stands between the Eberhard Weber's solo carrer of the 70's and the Frank Zappa's albums around 1970, like Hot Rats, Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawaka; however, Weather Report has a curious & enigmatic signature that puts them into a class apart.