Released March 11, 1976 Release date 11 March 1976 | Length 36:55 | |
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Recorded December 1975 – January 1976 Similar Weather Report albums, Jazz fusion albums | ||
Black Market is an instrumental jazz fusion album released by Weather Report in 1976. This album was produced by Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. It was recorded in December 1975 and released in April 1976 through Columbia Records. Columbia released it again as a digitally remastered CD in 1991.
Contents
This is Weather Report's seventh overall album and the first with the bass player Jaco Pastorius who features on two tracks. The back cover photo shows Pastorius, Chester Thompson and Alex Acuña with the band, although Alphonso Johnson played on more than half of the record. The album draws heavily from African influences and its style could be described as "world fusion". The second song, "Cannon Ball" is tribute to Zawinul's then recently deceased former band leader, saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley.
Side A
- "Black Market" (J. Zawinul) – 6:28
- "Cannon Ball" (J. Zawinul) – 4:36
- "Gibraltar" (J. Zawinul) – 8:16
Side B
- "Elegant People" (W. Shorter) – 5:03
- "Three Clowns" (W. Shorter) – 3:31
- "Barbary Coast" (J. Pastorius) – 3:19
- "Herandnu" (A. Johnson) – 6:36
Personnel
Songs
1Black Market6:32
2Cannon Ball4:38
3Gibraltar7:47