{"id":6251,"date":"2016-10-20T05:07:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T05:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/10\/20\/two-jazz-fusion-classics-on-hybrid-sacd-by-weather-report-and-return-to-forever\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T05:07:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T05:07:40","slug":"two-jazz-fusion-classics-on-hybrid-sacd-by-weather-report-and-return-to-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/10\/20\/two-jazz-fusion-classics-on-hybrid-sacd-by-weather-report-and-return-to-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Jazz-Fusion Classics on Hybrid SACD By Weather Report and Return To Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marshall Blonstein’s Audio Fidelity will be releasing Weather Report, \u201cTale Spinnin’\u201d and Return to Forever, \u201cMusicmagic\u201d on Hybrid SACD. Both recordings are considered essentials from the jazz fusion era of the mid-’70s. <\/div>\n
Recorded in early 1975, \u201cTale Spinnin’\u201d, Weather Report’s fifth studio album is filled with sunny textures of Latin and African flavors. The album stands with anything recorded during the period for the range of fresh, intriguing originals by the band’s co-founders and principle composers, the keyboardist Joe Zawinul and the saxophonist Wayne Shorter.<\/div>\n
Zawinul’s pioneering interest in world music is in full evidence with the exotic percussion, wordless\u00a0vocals, sandy sound effects and Middle Eastern and North African musical spices. His synthesizer\u00a0sophistication is growing along with the available technology of the day. Wayne Shorter’s work on\u00a0soprano sax is more animated than on their previous albums and Alphonso Johnson puts his melodic bass more to the fore.<\/div>\n
\u201cMusicmagic\u201d is Return to Forever’s final studio album and one of the best jazz recordings released\u00a0in the fusion genre. The album contains the final line-up of the band with only founders Chick Corea\u00a0and Stanley Clarke returning from the earlier recordings. This 1977 release was the first Return to\u00a0Forever album in five years to contain vocals, performed here by Gayle Moran and Stanley Clarke.\u00a0This album also marked the return of original member Joe Farrell on saxophone and flute, along with\u00a0several new members making up a killer five-piece horn section.<\/div>\n
The sound is remarkably more orchestral than anything the group had previously done, a cross between fusion, jazz vocals, big band and grassroots accoustic jazz. Musicmagic celebrates the pure joy of music.<\/div>\n
Both releases are mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and the SACD Authoring was done by Stephen Marsh at Marsh Mastering.<\/div>\n
Weather Report \u201cTale Spinnin’\u201d<\/div>\n
Produced by Wayne Shorter, Josef Zawinul<\/div>\n
TRACKS:<\/div>\n
1-Man in the Green Shirt<\/div>\n
2-Lusitanos<\/div>\n
3-Between the Thighs<\/div>\n
4-Badia<\/div>\n
5-Freezing Fire<\/div>\n
6-Five Short Stories<\/div>\n
Return To Forever \u201cMusicmagic\u201d<\/div>\n
Produced by Chick Corea – Co-produced by Stanley Clarke<\/div>\n
TRACKS:<\/div>\n
1-The Musician<\/div>\n
2-Hello Again<\/div>\n
3-Musicmagic<\/div>\n
4-So Long Mickey Mouse<\/div>\n
5-Do You Ever<\/div>\n
6-The Endless Night<\/div>\n
Source: www.audiofidelity.net<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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