  | Wednesday July 29th at 8pm: The Jazz Record Art Collective is proud to present Tim Seiser Sextet performing Weather Report's "Heavy Weather", released in 1977. The evening will also feature live art by visual artist Arthur Wright! ALBUM BACKGROUND: "Weather Report's biggest-selling album is that ideal thing, a popular and artistic success -- and for the same reasons. For one thing, Joe Zawinul revealed an unexpectedly potent commercial streak for the first time since his Cannonball Adderley days, contributing what has become a perennial hit, "Birdland.".. the full emergence of Jaco Pastorius as a co-leader; his dancing, staccato bass lifting itself out of the bass range as a third melodic voice, completely dominating his own ingenious "Teen Town" ...By now, Zawinul has become WR's de facto commander in the studio; his colorful synthesizers dictate the textures, his conceptions are carefully planned, with little of the freewheeling improvisation of only five years before. Wayne Shorter's saxophones are now reticent, if always eloquent, beams of light in Zawinul's general scheme while Alex Acuña shifts ably over to the drums and Manolo Badrena handles the percussion. Released just as the jazz-rock movement began to run out of steam, this landmark album proved that there was plenty of creative life left in the idiom." ~Richard S. Ginell PERFORMANCES BY: Tim Seisser - Electric Bass Corbin Andrick - Sax Paul Mutzabaugh - Keys Andrew Lawrence - Keys Reuben Garza - Drums Jonathon Marks - Percussion LIVESTREAM ACCESS: https://www.facebook.com/events/3072926379453465/ |
