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Friday, September 18, 2020

Weather Report-"8:30" (1979)

"8:30" is a live stuntman for the jazz rock band Weather Report, chronologically the band's tenth album released in 1979 and was recorded the previous year at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica in California on the backing tour from the album "Mr. Gone".
At that time the band consisted of its most classic and successful line-up: Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius and Peter Erskine, in addition to other supporting musicians such as Erich Zawinul.
For many this is a historic recording and one of the best jazz rock live shows ever recorded, with a repertoire loaded with some of the band's best compositions such as the initial "Black Market", the delicate "A Remark You Made ", the classic Miles Davis "In A Silent Way" or the apotheosis "Birland".
This album would get a Grammy award for best jazz performance the following year and a third place on the Billboard Jazz Albums charts.

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