SPEAKERS CORNER LP TEST PRESSING 33417: WEATHER REPORT - Tale Spinnin', 2011 NEW
  $   70

 


$ 70 Sold For
Jul 7, 2017 Sold Date
Nov 19, 2015 Start Date
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Background -

  • This is a Speakers Corner LP TEST PRESSING!
  • It comes in a plain jacket with no artwork.
  • It has NEVER BEEN PLAYED, in mint condition.
  • Inside the jacket there is an insert with information about the LP.
  • The record labels are WHITE with "ONLY FOR PROMOTION" written on them.
  • The dead wax around the record labels has the correct stamper information for this issue. 
  • Please note that the picture we have included with this listing is of a generic white jacket test pressing title. The actual item for sale is in a BLACK jacket.
Background -
Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was co-led by the Austrian-born keyboard player Joe Zawinul and the American saxophonist Wayne Shorter (and, initially, by Czech bass player Miroslav Vitouš). Other prominent members at various points in the band's lifespan included Jaco Pastorius, Peter Erskine, Alex Acuña, Alphonso Johnson, Victor Bailey, Airto Moreira and Chester Thompson.

Alongside Miles Davis's electric bands, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Headhunters, Weather Report is considered to be one of the pre-eminent early jazz fusion bands. As a continuous working unit, Weather Report outlasted all of its contemporaries despite (or perhaps because of) frequent changes of personnel, with a career lasting sixteen years between 1970 and 1986.

Tale Spinnin' is the sixth album by Weather Report, recorded and released in 1975, featuring the addition of Leon "Ndugu" Chancler on the drums. Ndugu was recruited after Josef Zawinul heard him play with Carlos Santana. Weather Report was recording next door to Ndugu in the studio, and Chancler was asked to join them for a recording session. That session ended up lasting a week and produced Tale Spinnin'. After the record, Ndugu was asked to join the band as a permanent member, but declined in favor of continuing to work with Carlos Santana.

"We played music that people listened to every day just as they watch the news every evening, music which changed constantly, just like the weather," reminisced Joe Zawinul when talking about coming up with a name for the group. This would probably frighten off listeners in today’s mass market, but back in those days CBS was satisfied with the group’s sound being somewhat similar to the Miles Davis Combo and offered them a recording contract without carrying out the usual sound check.

The magic potion of Bitches Brew, which Zawinul and Wayne Shorter had conjured up with Miles Davis, was promising of exhilarating new things to come. The heart-stopping mix of motivic fixed points and exciting improvisations, "the sketchy melodies, all that a synthesizer and other similar electronic devices could offer, combined with a Milky Way of rhythms," (Der Spiegel) was the pathway down which the group went, without ever becoming pure routine.

Their fifth album, Tale Spinnin’, originally issued in 1975, is captivating for its wealth of distinctive, often warm, synthesized sounds, which are further enhanced by Shorter’s bright, twangy soprano saxophone, lending it a jazzy aura. To be sure, this gripping jazz fusion never progresses steadily all the time, but takes up snatchy, though seemingly familiar, melodic ingredients and combines them to produce a new mixture. "Badia," however, is completely different: a quietly flowing and totally rhythmic ethnic work, which today would be classified as World Music.

This TEST PRESSING LP was made by SPEAKERS CORNER (Germany) // COLUMBIA Records - this is a highly collectible title from their catalog, featuring - 

Weather Report

LP title -

Tale Spinnin'

Performers on this title include -

    - Joe Zawinul (keyboard, percussion, vocals)
    - Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone)
    - Alphonso Johnson (bass)
    - Alyrio Lima (percussion)
    - Leon "Ndugu" Chancler (drums)

Track Listing -

1. We're Off To See The Wizard 2. Over the Rainbow 3. The Jitterbug 4. The Merry Old Land of Oz 5. If I Only Had a Brain 6. Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead 7. My Shining Hour 8. Get Happy 9. Blues In The Night 10. Let's Fall In Love 11. That Old Black Magic - See more at: http://www.soundstagedirect.com/shorty-rogers-the-wizard-of-oz-180-gram-vinyl-records.shtml#sthash.H2xLwsgw.dpuf 1. Man In the Green Shirt
2. Lusitanos
3. Between the Thighs
4. Badia
5. Freezing Fire
6. Five Short Stories
 
For best results, always properly clean your LPs before playing them - even brand new ones!

The LP is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Don't let this rarity slip by!!!


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