Weather Report Mr Gone Vinyl

Overview weather report has done to jazz in the 70s what paul whiteman did to it in the 20s so began down beat s one star review of mr.

Weather report mr gone vinyl.

Still an all time favorite and does not leave my dj crate ever. Gone is the 8th full length studio album by jazz rock fusion act weather report. Gone river people blew me away. Weather report reached their commercial peak with the group s last album heavy weather 1977.

Jaco shorter erksine and zawinul are certainly at about the top of their musical game on mr gone the 1978 follow up to their classic heavy weather album but the albums are very different wheras the previous record presented a very accesible variation on weather report s classic sound mr gone has far has more variety and also more subversive considering the nature of highly electric music. The album rose to no. River people 4 49 a3. The album featured a succesful single in birdland which sold around 400 000 copies.

The album was released through columbia cbs records in september 1978. 1 on the billboard jazz albums chart. The pursuit of the woman with the feathered hat 5 04 a2. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1980 vinyl release of mr.

Punk jazz 5 09 b3. The elders 4 19 b1. Young and fine 6 53 a4. I love how they got more funky progressive and when i bought mr.

Gone possibly the most controversial review in the magazine s history like whiteman the review continued weather report took progressive jazz out of the clubs and into the concert halls exposing millions of people to its brand of.