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Weather Report 70's albums
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    Posted: January 28 2009 at 17:20
Here are Weather Reports albums from the 70's, there were many lineup changes throughout these years but the music was still never a let down. Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter created some of the greatest jazz music in their time. Pick your favorite album from the list.
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Just starting my Weather Report experience.Heavy Weather is the only complete album I own so it has to get the vote.I think that once I get Black Market that may take over.Wink

I do have the Montreux DVD.Thumbs Up  Jaco is god!
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I prefer Miroslav Vitous.

Last WR poll I voted for the debut, but this time I'll go for I Sing The Body Electric. They really were quite cutting edge in the beginning.
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Black Market for me, great album all the way through and has some of their best melodies. Cannon Ball especially has one of my favorite melodies of all time. I like the early stuff a lot too but they occasionally meandered too much in those albums. They pretty much had only good material from the debut through Heavy Weather though.
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The first two are really outstanding and their most exprimental.
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ISTBE was a logical extension of what Miles was doing back then...really riveting stuff.
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Sweetnighter for me


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I don't have all of them, but maybe I will someday.

For now Heavy Weather is my favorite.
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Gotta go with "Mysterious traveller" i really enjoy the atmosphere on that one.
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the debut for me, it could change any day though
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I went with Heavy Weather. My intro to WR.
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I didn't even have to look at the other choices, it's Sweetnighter all the way.  I saw them play the better part of that album live, in an incredibly intimate setting ( I was sitting about 10 feet from Joe Zawinul).  Just nothing like Boogie Woogie Waltz and 125th St. Congress.  Very very good times, those were.
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Originally posted by jammun

I didn't even have to look at the other choices, it's Sweetnighter all the way.  I saw them play the better part of that album live, in an incredibly intimate setting ( I was sitting about 10 feet from Joe Zawinul).  Just nothing like Boogie Woogie Waltz and 125th St. Congress.  Very very good times, those were.
 
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the debut for me, it could change any day though
 
Also the debut.
 
I really prefer the first period with Vitous as bassist where they develop a fusion jazz (debut, Body lectric & Sweetnighter) than the second era with Johnson at bass where they do funk-jazz (Traveller and Tale) or the third era and the Pastorius years (Market , M Gone & Weather) where they do fusion and "anything goes.




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Black Market by far.

Stunning masterpiece!
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"I sing the body Electric" for me. I think the first part of the album is the most progressive music on WR's discography. Just listen a composition like "Unknown soldier": like nothing else.
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Please, not (!!!!) HEAVY WEATHER. Anyone who's not a cloth-eared nincompoop (to quote Mike O.) will understand why.
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LOL I'm surprised Heavy Weather is winning fuxi, but i guess it was more commercial right? Which i'm sure is your point why it shouldn't win.
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"I sing the body Electric" for me. I think the first part of the album is the most progressive music on WR's discography. Just listen a composition like "Unknown soldier": like nothing else.



Fantastic track! Kind of like Jazzfusion's take on Thenody for the Victims of Hiroshima (by Penderecki).
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Black Market for me
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