Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity will be
releasing Weather Report, “Tale Spinnin'” and Return to Forever, “Musicmagic”
on Hybrid SACD. Both recordings are considered essentials from the jazz fusion
era of the mid-'70s.
Recorded in early 1975, “Tale Spinnin'”, Weather Report's
fifth studio album is filled with sunny textures of Latin and African flavors.
The album stands with anything recorded during the period for the range of
fresh, intriguing originals by the band's co-founders and principle composers,
the keyboardist Joe Zawinul and the saxophonist Wayne Shorter.
Zawinul's pioneering interest in world music is in full
evidence with the exotic percussion, wordless vocals, sandy sound effects and
Middle Eastern and North African musical spices. His synthesizer sophistication
is growing along with the available technology of the day. Wayne Shorter's work
on soprano sax is more animated than on their previous albums and Alphonso
Johnson puts his melodic bass more to the fore.
“Musicmagic” is Return to Forever's final studio album and
one of the best jazz recordings released in the fusion genre. The album
contains the final line-up of the band with only founders Chick Corea and
Stanley Clarke returning from the earlier recordings. This 1977 release was the
first Return to Forever album in five years to contain vocals, performed here
by Gayle Moran and Stanley Clarke. This album also marked the return of
original member Joe Farrell on saxophone and flute, along with several new members
making up a killer five-piece horn section.
The sound is remarkably more orchestral than anything the
group had previously done, a cross between fusion, jazz vocals, big band and
grassroots accoustic jazz. Musicmagic celebrates the pure joy of music.
Both releases are mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
and the SACD Authoring was done by Stephen Marsh at Marsh Mastering.
Weather Report “Tale Spinnin'”
Produced by Wayne Shorter, Josef Zawinul
TRACKS:
1-Man in the Green Shirt
2-Lusitanos
3-Between the Thighs
4-Badia
5-Freezing Fire
6-Five Short Stories
Return To Forever “Musicmagic”
Produced by Chick Corea - Co-produced by Stanley Clarke
TRACKS:
1-The Musician
2-Hello Again
3-Musicmagic
4-So Long Mickey Mouse
5-Do You Ever
6-The Endless Night
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