Black Market (Weather Report album)

1976 studio album by Weather Report

Black Market

Studio album by

Weather Report

Released| March 11, 1976
Recorded| December 1975 – January 1976
Studio| Devonshire Sound Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre|

* Jazz fusion
* world

Length| 37:20
Label| Columbia
Producer| Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter
Weather Report chronology
| Tale Spinnin'
(1975)  | Black Market
(1976)  | Heavy Weather
(1977)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide| [3]
Sputnikmusic| [2]

Black Market is the sixth studio album by American jazz fusion band Weather Report. Released in 1976, it was produced by Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. It was recorded between December 1975 and January 1976 and released in March 1976 through Columbia Records.[5]

This is Weather Report's first studio album to feature bass player Jaco Pastorius; he appears on two tracks, one of which was his own composition "Barbary Coast". The back cover photo shows Pastorius, Chester Thompson, and Alex Acuña with the band, although bass player Alphonso Johnson played on the majority of the record's tracks. The album draws heavily from African influences, and its style could be described as "world fusion". The second track, "Cannon Ball", is a tribute to saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Zawinul's employer for several years during the 1960s. Adderley died a few months before Black Market was recorded.

## Track listing

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Side ANo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Black Market"| Joe Zawinul| 6:28
2.| "Cannon Ball"| Zawinul| 4:36
3.| "Gibraltar"| Zawinul| 8:16
Total length:| 19:18

Side BNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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4.| "Elegant People"| Wayne Shorter| 5:03
5.| "Three Clowns"| Shorter| 3:31
6.| "Barbary Coast"| Jaco Pastorius| 3:19
7.| "Herandnu"| Alphonso Johnson| 6:36
Total length:| 18:20

## Personnel

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Weather Report

* Joe Zawinul – Yamaha Grand Piano, Rhodes Electric Piano, 2 × ARP 2600, Oberheim Polyphonic Synthesizer, orchestration
* Wayne Shorter – Selmer soprano and tenor saxophones, Computone Lyricon
* Alphonso Johnson – electric bass
* Jaco Pastorius – electric fretless bass (tracks 2 & 6)
* Narada Michael Walden – drums (tracks 1–2)
* Chester Thompson – drums (tracks 1,[6] 3–7)
* Alex Acuña – congas, percussion (tracks 2–5, 7)
* Don Alias – percussion (tracks 1 & 6)

Production

* Joe Zawinul – producer
* Wayne Shorter – co-producer
* Ron Malo – engineer
* Nancy Donald – cover design
* David McMacken – cover illustration
* Ed Caraeff – photography

## References

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1. ^ Ginell, Richard S. "Black Market - Weather Report". AllMusic. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
2. ^ Campbell, Hernan M. (November 25, 2012). "Review: Weather Report - Black Market | Sputnikmusic". sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 204\. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1475\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
5. ^ "Black Market". June 25, 2015.
6. ^ Chester Thompson: 10 albums that define my career - "The funny part is, I actually taught Phil Collins the In The Air Tonight drum fill" \- article by Stuart Williams in Music Radar, 20 February 2024

## External links

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* Weather Report Annotated Discography: Black Market

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Weather Report

* Joe Zawinul
* Wayne Shorter
* Miroslav Vitouš
* Airto Moreira
* Alphonse Mouzon
* Dom Um Romão
* Eric Gravatt
* Greg Errico
* Alphonso Johnson
* Leon "Ndugu" Chancler
* Chester Thompson
* Jaco Pastorius
* Alex Acuña
* Don Alias
* Manolo Badrena
* Peter Erskine
* Robert Thomas Jr.
* Omar Hakim
* Victor Bailey
* Mino Cinélu
* Narada Michael Walden

Studio albums|

* Weather Report (1971)
* I Sing the Body Electric (1972)
* Sweetnighter (1973)
* Mysterious Traveller (1974)
* Tale Spinnin' (1975)
* Black Market (1976)
* Heavy Weather (1977)
* Mr. Gone (1978)
* Night Passage (1980)
* Weather Report (1982)
* Procession (1983)
* Domino Theory (1984)
* Sportin' Life (1985)
* This Is This! (1986)

Live albums|

* Live in Tokyo (1972)
* 8:30 (1979)
* Live and Unreleased (2002)
* The Legendary Live Tapes: 1978–1981 (2015)

Compilations|

* Forecast: Tomorrow (2006)

Singles|

* "Birdland" (1977)

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