8:30

8:30
Live album by Weather Report
Released August 1979
Recorded November 1978 and early 1979[1]
Venue Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Genre Jazz fusion
Length 80:24
Label Columbia
Producer Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius
Weather Report chronology
Mr. Gone
(1978)		 8:30
(1979)		 Night Passage
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Robert ChristgauB+ [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]

8:30 is the tenth album and second live album by the jazz fusion group Weather Report. It was recorded live, except for tracks 10-13 which were recorded in a studio. The album includes a live version of "Birdland". The album won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance.

History

The album takes its name from the band's habit of starting their performance at 8:30 pm. At the time of the tour, the band was a quartet and would take the stage continuously for around two and a half hours, each of the members taking a solo. Wayne Shorter sometimes plays percussion instead of saxophone on stage, and on one of the studio tracks, the calypso inspired "Brown Street", Joe Zawinul's son Erich plays percussion with Erskine and Pastorius.

Jaco Pastorius played a notable solo on "Slang"[2] which started with an out-of-time rendition of "Dolores" by Wayne Shorter, then melded a multi-part bass solo using a rack-mounted MXR digital delay, leading into references to "Third Stone from the Sun" by Jimi Hendrix,[2] "Portrait of Tracy" from his solo work, then "The Sound of Music". He finished playing his bass with its own strap.

According to Peter Erskine, the band had planned for the entire album to be live, but an engineer accidentally erased some of the material, prompting the band to go into the studio to record the fourth side.[5]

The album was originally a double gatefold LP. The reissue on CD dropped "Scarlet Woman" and was released as a single CD. In Japan, the album was released as a 2-CD set with all the tracks of the original.

Track listing

All tracks written by Joe Zawinul, except where noted.

Side One
No.TitleLength
1."Black Market"9:47
2."Scarlet Woman" (Alphonso Johnson, Wayne Shorter, Zawinul)8:42
Side Two
No.TitleLength
1."Teen Town" (Jaco Pastorius)6:03
2."A Remark You Made"8:01
3."Slang" (Pastorius)4:45
4."In a Silent Way"2:47
Side Three
No.TitleLength
1."Birdland"7:13
2."Thanks for the Memory" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger)3:33
3."Medley: Badia/Boogie Woogie Waltz"9:32
Side Four
No.TitleLength
1."8:30"2:36
2."Brown Street" (Zawinul, Shorter)8:34
3."The Orphan"3:17
4."Sightseeing" (Shorter)5:34

Personnel

  • Joe Zawinul – keyboards, bass synthesizer, vocoder, percussion
  • Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Jaco Pastorius – fretless bass guitar, percussion, drums on "8:30" & "Brown Street"
  • Peter Erskine – drums
  • Erich Zawinul – percussion on "Brown Street"
  • The West Los Angeles Christian Academy Children's Choir – vocals on "The Orphan"

References

  1. ↑ Bianchi, Curt. "8:30". www.weatherreportdiscography.org. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 Meredith, Bill. "8:30". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  3. ↑ Christgau, R. (2011). "Robert Christgau: CG: weather report". robertchristgau.com. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. US: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 204. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. ↑ Glaser, Brian (2001). In a Silent Way: A Portrait of Joe Zawinul. Sanctuary Publishing. pp. 213–214. ISBN 1860743269.
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