Weather Report - "Nubian Sundance" (1974)

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I still remember the first time I heard this as a kid, back in 1974 - I was like, "WTF!?!", but for me it had the same effect as people hearing 'Purple Haze' or 'Sgt Pepper'' for the first time, but from an Electric Jazz / World Music perspective....I love Skip Hadden and Ishmael Wilburn doubling up[ on the drums...and Zawinul is--well, stunning on the Synths....

From the album, 'Mysterious Traveler'




Joe Zawinul - Keyboards, Synthesizers

Wayne Shorter - Saxophone

Skip Hadden - Drums

Ishmael Wilburn - Drums

Dom Um Ramao - Percussion

Alphonso Johnson - Bass

Edna Write: Vocalist

Jim Gilstrap: Vocalist

Marti McCall: Vocalist

Jessica Smith: Vocalist

Billie Barnum: Vocalist





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nice so free

I love it!

inspiration for N.E.W.S?

lotusflw3r said:

Meloh9 said:

nice so free

Great tune, great album, great band.


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Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

I'm not a huge Weather Report fan, save for their first two albums and this one (the rest are too light and fluffy for me....even with Jaco holding down the bass). This is a GREAT record!

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I came across some interesting comments from Joe Zawinul on the composition and the story behind it:

From Binkie.net:

'Zawinul told Jazz Forum magazine, "'Nubian Sundance' is a complete improvisation of mine which I taped at home. Then I took the music from the tape and orchestrated it. So, as a matter of fact, you have an improvisation which was worked over later in such a manner that you never lose this feeling of purity....."

'He told Downbeat journalist Conrad Silvert..."....It's a wedding dance. You can hear the man's voice calling, "Godinia", and later on she calls him, "Accru". And then you hear the people cheering and applauding, that's like a toast, a certain ritual. The moral of the story is that if you meet the right person in your life, you always know from the very beginning."-'








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