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| ARTIST: | Weather Report |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony |
| FEATURES: | Original recording remastered |
| TYPE: | Jazz, Pop |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Nubian Sundance, American Tango, Cucumber Slumber, Mysterious Traveller, Blackthorn Rose, Scarlet Woman, Jungle Book |
| UPC: | 074646511220 |
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Customer Reviews of Mysterious Traveller
at their prime I own all Weather Report LPs although I'm not a collector. That is because you can find at least one great song on all Weather Report LPs (17, while the band existed), often a great deal more. But if I had to pick one, it would be this one. Weather Report are at their prime here. The group is perfectly balanced and really works as a group (not as individual superstars as it would be in the Jaco Pastorius years). Listen to the incredible beauty of Wayne Shorter's Soprano sax, the light and swinging funk of Alphonso Johnson's bass or the imagination Joe Zawinul had using his keyboards. There is not one track that is not outstanding. "Mysterious Traveller" is a good example of a record with a perfect flow (and recording sound, for that matter), and it's truly mysterious how wonderfully this record has travelled through the years. A timeless classic and one of the best records from the 70's.
Possibly Weather Report's Finest Moment
This album is full of wonderful compositions, all of which are a great joy to listen to.
Nubian Sundance is simply great. Right from the first hard-hitting note to the last, this is a great work.
The introduction of funk bassist Alphonso Johnson made a great difference to the sound and, in effect, the technique of "The Weather Report Sound". And even though Miroslav Vitous was, and still is one the finest acoustic bass players in the world, Alphonso gave the musicians a little more room to move.
Miroslav Vitous only played on one track, "American Tango" (which he co-write with Joe Zawinul).
"Cucumber Slumber" is a great funk piece (thanks to Alphonso), and I would have to say, one of the greatest jams ever.
The title track "Mysterious Traveller" is funky, rhythmic, and great track. This is definitely one of Shorter's best works and one of WR's greatest achievements as a group.
Zawinul's closing track "Jungle Book" is a wonderful mix of different instruments, and not to mention different styles of music - a great work.
There have been many complaints about the sound quality of this remaster - the truth is there is no real problem, just listen to music!
Right from the amazing introduction of Nubian Sundance, right through to the final guitar notes of Jungle Book, Mysterious Traveller is a great album, and quite possibly WR's best.
This is one of the finest works by one the finest groups ever!
20 reviews, 21 now for the 21st century?
When this many words written, I suppose a different type of "information" should be dispensed, no?
First thought, as I am getting "up in the years", I owned this recording when first issues, and decided to purchase the CD as the nice "discount price" enticed me to put out the $$ and I grabbed it !
Possibly, the most interesting(?)perspective I can give upon revisiting a recording, one that I somehow neglected for years, this is the "trunk of the tree" (one species specific) the "Weather Report Sound" seemed to fianlly congeal.
Weather Report soon became "W.R .featuring the legend Jaco Pastorius", I do not think I need elaborate. this recording introduced the new fase, "before jaco" it might be said.
Jaco's legend no doubt will inspire into "eternity" (I hope his sounds are heard on those angelic clouds promised by that great "sky-god" religion),
and a nice listen to this recording will surely display that Jaco's own compositional growth later on in his career was surely "officially stamped" by one Josef Zawinul, whose harmonic and ritmic concept Jaco certainly devoured voraciosly.
I enjoy this recording even more than I remember , as it is still steeped in the Wayne Shorter "post-Miles" tradition,(there is still Shorter on tenor, where I LOVE Wayne's playing the best. Soprano sax STILL does not stick with me the way WS's muscular tenor does), along with the inventiveness of Mr Zawinul previously described,
and for my taste, the addition of the (still alive and kicking)legend from Brasil, Dom Um Romão on percussions.
Alfonso Johnson's bassistic approach remains relative "underappreciated" since he , like Miroslav Vitous , PRECEEDED a legend in Jaco. AJ keeps the groove percolating, his solo style sofisticated, but very understated and tasteful.
So forget Jaco only for the moment, (he is not present her on this recording, of course), only the rich interaction of the bandmates , and a soulful stew of European, and US jazz/soul jazz , electronically enhanced instrumentation meet the tradition that makes for the Weather Report legend.
Delicious musics, inspired by further elaboration on the Charles Mingus "improvisation as PART of the composition" approach.
Pura magia! 1000 stars !