Weather Report: Heavy Weather
Weather Report’s best-selling album is also Jaco’s first as a co-leader. Here, Zawinul’s mega hit “Birdland” leads off the album, followed by Jaco’s lyrical fretless work on “A Remark You Made” and Jaco’s own “Teen Town” (with Jaco on bass and drums). Jaco was nominated for a Grammy (Best Jazz Soloist) for his work on this album.
Great album!
In my early teens my musicteacher in school played “Birdland” for us and it blew me away! At that point I was listening to Sweet, Kiss, Led Zeppelin etc but after hearing Birdland my musical interest took a completely new direction. It took me years to figure out how Jaco did the harmonics-melody at the beginning of the song. For me Heavy Weather is one of the best albums ever recorded.
I new him as a person.I so much miss him.
So fresh and marvelous, genius musicians
cant get any better than this, missed music