For Y'all Diverse Artists - 2000 Celebrating The Music Of Weather Condition Report

Telarc together with producer Jason Miles brought inward a boat-load of contemporary jazz heavyweights to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Weather Report's formation amongst this recording, together with quite a celebration it is. Miles together with his all-star cast get got managed to rest truthful to the master music, patch updating together with opening upward the arrangements. Tenor saxman extraordinaire Michael Brecker smokes upward "Elegant People," patch alto superstar David Sanborn teams upward amongst the concluding Weather Report beat department of Victor Bailey together with Omar Hakim to accept a scrumptious, synth-soaked stroll through "Cannonball." Lesser known saxophonist Aaron Heick comports himself good every bit he fills Shorter's shoes on "Mysterious Traveller," together with Spyro Gyra's Jay Beckentein turns inward a lovely soprano sax atomic number 82 over Joe Sample's distinctive pianoforte on the ballad "Harlequin." "The Man inward the Green Shirt" journeys to the islands courtesy of steel pan human being Andy Narell. Randy Brecker's trumpet gives a novel dimension to "Palladium," patch Marcus Miller together with John Scofield accept a loping, funky trip through "Cucumber Slumber." In fact, the exclusively electrical charge close this recording is that the modern synthesizers, employed a petty heavy-handedly at times yesteryear Miles, get got a much cheesier audio than did Joe Zawinul's banking enterprise of organic keyboards together with early on synths inward the band's heyday. Nonetheless, this celebration offers a bevy of delights to remind old-time Weather Report fans of the band's greatness; it may fifty-fifty assistance innovate a novel generation of listeners to this superb music, hopefully enticing them to cheque out the originals.

With a rich dependent champaign to mine together with a distinctive, creative vision, the compilation Celebrating the Music of Weather Report (Telarc CD-83473; 58:30) stands a cutting higher upward the glut of all-star tribute albums currently on the market. The mutual thread uniting a football game team-sized cast is keyboard phenom Jason Miles, who through unique arrangements of carefully chosen pieces traces the band’s development together with highlights its influence without wandering into cliché territory. Where “Birdland” is given a whammy-bowed, stone guitar read yesteryear Chuck Loeb, amongst Take six edifice rich rhythms via voice, “Cannonball” finds David Sanborn belting the alto sax tune over Miles’ lovely keyboard tones together with fusion-styled breaks. “Badia” boasts exotic percussion backbeat, tribal vocals together with prickly mid-eastern tones, patch “Harlequin” makes an unexpectedly lush, darkly romantic disputation amongst saxophonist Jay Beckenstein at the helm. Most startling together with revealing are “Mysterious Traveler,” amongst Miles setting a haunted, cornered keyboard musical note for Aaron Heick to laid upward aflame amongst multiple squealing saxes, together with “Palladium,” which starts amongst a music-box keyboard experience earlier opening into a fusion storm, amongst Omar Hakim’s spitfire drums together with Randy Brecker’s singing, sudden trumpet line.

With a huge assembly of star performers similar Marcus Miller, Dennis Chambers, Jay Beckenstein etc.,the performances are top-notch, precisely the overall production borders on "smooth", although unopen to of Weather Reports' catalog is tranquillity catchy inward a "pop" variety of agency together with so lends itself to a slightly to a greater extent than "poppy together with smooth" version of fusion jazz.

The sonics are every bit park for Telarc, fantastic, together with the music is perfectly suited for 5.1, together with the mix does not
disappoint, amongst tasteful purpose of the surrounds for synths, percussion together with "atmosphere", precisely the principal functioning is up-front.

Track Listing:

01. Birdland
02. Elegant People
03. Badia
04. Young And Fine
05. Cannonball
06. Pursuit Of The Woman With The Feathered Hat
07. Mysterious Traveller
08. Harlequin
09. Man In The Green Shirt
10. Palladium
11. Cucumber Slumber

Personnel:

- John Scofield, Chuck Loeb, Dean Brown / guitar
- Randy Brecker / trumpet
- Michael Brecker / Tenor saxophone
- David Sanborn / Alto saxophone
- Joe Sample / piano
- Victor Bailey, Mike Pope, John Patitucci, Will Lee, Marcus Miller / bass
- Dennis Chambers, Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Gadd, Omar Hakim / drums
- Aaron Heick / Soprano & Tenor saxophones
- Jay Beckenstein / Soprano saxophone
- Jason Miles / keyboards, programming, background vocals
- Tom Schuman / synthesizer
- Andy Narell / pans
- Mark Quinones, Cyro Baptista / percussion
- Mary Fahl, Porter Carroll, Take six / background vocals