Weather Report is a pioneering
jazz rock fusion album. It was released
before anyone knew what they were doing.
It was a totally different style of jazz. Many people were angry about it because they
saw rock n’ roll as a sellout genre that could only be simple. Let me tell you something; this album ain’t
simple. However, the greater question
that should be answered is whether or not the album delivers. Compared to some of the later efforts of
musicians that played on this album, I would say that overtime the sounds got
more refined, and often better.
Black Market sounds like a bunch
accomplished musician’s trying to prove themselves. Wait a minute, that sounds like a
contradiction, but it is true. What
Black Market lacks is the jelly jam to hold together the fruit.
Nevertheless, the music on the
album is still of superior quality, when compared to the alternative, which
would have been staying on course with the jazz swing oblivion where the music
never gets better, and most of everything that is worth playing is already
recorded.
A definite plus to this album,
is that there will probably never come a time when its audience can’t say, that
sounds like it was released, yesterday.
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