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Sportin' Life (Weather Report album)

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Released
  
March 1985

Sportin' Life (1985)
  
This is This! (1986)

Release date
  
March 1985

Genre
  
Jazz fusion

Length
  
39:09

Artist
  
Weather Report

Label
  
Columbia Records

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Producers
  
Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter

Similar
  
Weather Report albums, Jazz fusion albums

Sportin' Life is the fifteenth studio album by Weather Report, released in 1985. Although featuring many more vocal performances than any of their previous albums, words are rare and most vocals are chants from Bobby McFerrin or Carl Anderson. The album is named after a character from Porgy and Bess.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joe Zawinul; except where indicated

  1. "Corner Pocket" – 5:46
  2. "Indiscretions" – 4:05
  3. "Hot Cargo" – 4:41
  4. "Confians" (Cinelu) – 5:07
  5. "Pearl On the Half Shell" (Shorter) – 4:06
  6. "What's Going On" (Renaldo Benson, Alfred Cleveland, Marvin Gaye) – 6:29
  7. "Face on the Barroom Floor" (Shorter) – 3:59
  8. "Ice-Pick Willy" – 5:00

Personnel

Weather Report
  • Josef Zawinul – keyboards
  • Wayne Shorter – saxophones
  • Omar Hakim – drums, background vocals on "Confians"
  • Victor Bailey – bass, background vocals on "Confians"
  • Mino Cinélu – percussion, lead vocal and acoustic guitar on "Confians"
    • Additional musicians
  • Bobby McFerrin – vocalist (tracks 1, 3, 5, 8)
  • Carl Anderson – vocalist (tracks 1, 3, 8)
  • Dee Dee Bellson – vocalist (tracks 1, 3, 8)
  • Alfie Silas – voice (tracks 1, 3, 8)
    • Technical
  • Howard Siegel - engineer
  • Tony Lane, Nancy Donald - art direction
  • Jerry McDonald - album artwork

    • Songs

    1Corner Pocket5:44
    2Indiscretions4:05
    3Hot Cargo4:40

    References

    Sportin' Life (Weather Report album) Wikipedia
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