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| ARTIST: | Weather Report |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony Int'l |
| FEATURES: | Import |
| TYPE: | Jazz, Pop |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Procession, Plaza Real, Two Lines, Where the Moon Goes, Well, Molasses Run |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Procession
outstanding album I stayed away from the 80's weather report albums for quite a while - had all their 70's material short of the 1st album and mr.gone. Not sure what prompted me to pick up the rest of their stuff just recently. Procession was an extremely pleasant surprise and definitely stood out among Night passage, WR and sportin' life.
I thought all cuts are very strong in terms of song-writing and playing. In my book this album is right up there with MT, Sweetnighter and Tail Spinning, but it has a different sound - it is not a repetition of their old material. I think Bailey and Hakim are very creative musicians and their arrival didn't slow down Weather Report at all.
Honestly, I am still to grasp the impact of Jaco pastorius on weather report. I've read somewhere that some call their Night Passage and WR their finest period, so I am not discounting those albums completely, but at this point to me they sound a little more boring than some of their earlier stuff.
Another late-period WR album not up to their high standards
PROCESSION documents the Zawinul / Shorter / Victor Bailey / Omar Hakim / Jose Rossy lineup, covering six new originals (and featuring an electronically-altered Manhattan Transfer on WHERE THE MOON GOES). Though this WR lineup is certainly an impressive collection of musicians on paper, the results here generally fall a bit flat--the group retains it's integrity but not the level of interest of its classic efforts. There are no glaring missteps or musical dead-ends pursued, more a lack of freshness that makes this a secondary addition to their legacy. Zawinul's compositions and keyboard textures are less compelling than usual, and the remaining group members fail to consistently assert the individualism of prior lineups. One tends to get a bit impatient waiting for the third-world-like themes to give way to for Shorter's inevitable solo, but being that the performances are largely ensemble-oriented, Wayne's efforts are few and far-between. P.S., I have heard live recordings by this WR lineup that are more inspired.
Creative resurgence
The last two or three albums with Jaco Pastorius and Peter Erskine sounded like a group on musical autopilot. And while some fans of the Pastorius/Erskine band may sneer at their replacements (Victor Bailey and Omar Hakim, respectively), 1983's Procession was definitely a comeback. The tunes are more catchy (especially the classic title track), the band is more feisty, and Zawinul's synths are less cheesy than they had been in years. There's an obvious nostalgia for the Mysterious Traveller - Black Market days (just look at the cover!) on songs like the Shorter/Zawinul duet "The Well" and the memorable Shorter ballad "Plaza Real". This is not a classic by any means, but people looking to explore the post-Heavy Weather albums of WR should definitely start here.