Weather Report - The Columbia Albums 1976-1982

[mjzee]

Release date February 26:

The Columbia Albums 1976-1982 anthologizes the Jaco Pastorius era of Weather Report. Black Market (1976), Heavy Weather (1977), Mr. Gone (1978), 8:30 (1979), Night Passage (1980), and Weather Report (1982) are packaged in Clamshell Box with wallets. Each disc features reproduced front and back artwork. As detailed by liner notes author Richard Seidel, the box contains 12 bonus tracks, including all the cuts from the 2002 compilation Live and Unreleased that feature Pastorius, as well as material from the 1979 Havana Jam. The 20-page booklet also features full track-by-track credits and session data.

[felser]

It's a really nicely done set (as are all of the ones in the Sony series), and they were dirt cheap when I bought them the first time around, $3-$4 per disc.  I bought a ton of them.  They always used the best available mastering BTW.

[Chuck Nessa]

Yes, I got the first one for $21.55 (delivered) and I prefer the earlier titles.

[mjzee]

I find the small credits on the back interesting.  "Music On CD" has licensed this from Sony Music.  www.musiconcd.eu. I wonder who they are.

[Chuck Nessa]

1 minute ago, mjzee said:

I find the small credits on the back interesting.  "Music On CD" has licensed this from Sony Music.  www.musiconcd.eu. I wonder who they are.

Must be Antifa! :-)

[clifford_thornton]

HA!

[BFrank]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Must be Antifa! :-)

[bertrand]

The Forecast Tomorrow compilation included an unissued studio take of Directions. I wonder how much more studio material there is. I know Mysterious Traveler had a bonus cut on a Japanese release that I have never found.

Edited January 25, 2021 by bertrand

[felser]

12 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

 I prefer the earlier titles.

+1

[barnaba.siegel]

I'm waiting for the reissue of Lost Tapes. They went OOP surprisingly fast. I wonder why Sony isn't releasing more of that stuff, like Hancock or Mahavishnu, when nowadays albums are going oop after not even a year.

[medjuck]

11 hours ago, mjzee said:

I find the small credits on the back interesting.  "Music On CD" has licensed this from Sony Music.  www.musiconcd.eu. I wonder who they are.

Given the declining sales for cds, maybe the major companies are beginning to license their product to others rather than producing them theirselves. 

[JSngry]

...about preferring the "earlier titles"...not sure about that for me...Black Market is probably my favorite record of theirs's, Heavy Weather is pretty damn cohesive, like an Ellington record, really/sic. I can and do frequently pretend that Mr. Gone and 8:30 never happened, and then it's back to Night Passage & Weather Report (2), where shit just starts getting dark and quirky all over again, just in a new way.

Point is, I don't really have a "preference" with this band, it's a more or less continuous arc for me.

btw - "Madagascar" on Night Passage is as close to gonzo DizzyBird bebop as this type of music gets. Virtuosity and imagination at the fullest speed possible. No other band had that, not like this. And even this band didn't always have it like this.

[ghost of miles]

13 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Must be Antifa! :-)

Damn, they are everywhere!! Branching out into Weather Report reissues now... could a Bill Barron box be next?

[JSngry]

In order to form a more perfect union, it should be.

[HutchFan]

Perhaps we could build some sort of elaborate and fabulous theory that a comprehensive Bill Barron box set is, in fact, coming soon from Mosaic!  Of course, it would all be based on "insider information" from a highly placed individual, who wishes to remain anonymous (naturally). For the sake of simplicity, let's just call this insider "Y."  With the right media contacts and internet presence, it's only a matter of time until a large percentage of the U.S. (and even worldwide!) population regards a Bill Barron box set as well nigh inevitable.  If enough people believe in it with all their heart, then we CANNOT be denied.  It will happen!!! 

Right?

 

[JSngry]

I tried with "Y Not" and you see where that's gone.

Maybe "Q" can get it done, that guy appears to get people to believe any damn thing.

[Chuck Nessa]

16 hours ago, mjzee said:

I find the small credits on the back interesting.  "Music On CD" has licensed this from Sony Music.  www.musiconcd.eu. I wonder who they are.

Maybe they are "licensing" to a "third party" (notice the " ") to take advantage of Euro public domain laws and avoid paying royalties.

[mjzee]

If you look at their catalog listed on their website, you'll see titles licensed from WEA, Sony, and Universal.  Interesting.

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

I tried with "Y Not" and you see where that's gone.

Maybe "Q" can get it done, that guy appears to get people to believe any damn thing.

The REAL Q!   

 

[JSngry]

Harry Caul like a mo!

[bertrand]

8 hours ago, HutchFan said:

The REAL Q!   

 

Or 'Z' as in Zev.

You know what should come out legally - WR live in Berlin 1971. Some tracks with three extra horns. Amazing version of Moto Grosso Feio.

[Bluesnik]

On 1/25/2021 at 5:10 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

Must be Antifa! :-)

Don't know what that means, but here Antifa is Antifascism

[sambrasa]

On 25.1.2021 at 5:56 PM, bertrand said:

The Forecast Tomorrow compilation included an unissued studio take of Directions. I wonder how much more studio material there is. I know Mysterious Traveler had a bonus cut on a Japanese release that I have never found.

I have this CD. The bonus track is called "Miroslav's Tune."

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Bluesnik said:

Don't know what that means, but here Antifa is Antifascism

Here, it's a word that is used by some people who don't want to take responsibility for their own bad behavior,

Kinda like these guys:

[bertrand]

Jim is referencing Family Circus. Time for an intervention. Take two Aylers and call me in the morning.

1 hour ago, sambrasa said:

I have this CD. The bonus track is called "Miroslav's Tune."

Yes, that's it. Does Wayne play on it at all? How long is it? I assume I know the composer