Procession (album)
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Procession is the eleventh studio album by the jazz fusion band Weather Report. It was released in 1983 through Columbia Records. Although several previous Weather Report tracks included wordless singing, and "And Then" from Mr. Gone included brief lyrics, "Where the Moon Goes" was the band's first track including lyrics throughout, sung by members of the Manhattan Transfer. The band would continue to feature vocals on the next three studio albums.
Critical reception
Richard S. Ginell of Allmusic, wrote "contrary to the conventional wisdom which claims that WR went downhill after the departure of Pastorius/Erskine, the new lineup actually recharged WR's creative batteries; the material here is superior to that of the previous two albums at least. Bailey, while not Jaco's technical equal, is mobile enough to project through the texture, and Hakim has the versatility and swinging Third World rhythmic influences that must have appealed to Zawinul...This is an unjustly overlooked Weather Report treasure."[1]
Reviewing the album in Record, Steve Futterman dismissed Procession as being competently crafted but too similar to Weather Report's previous albums to be of any interest. Noting the band's change in lineup, he stated, "Integrating new members, finding what they can offer and letting them stir things up can give an established band a welcome jolt of creativity, of fresh ideas. But in Weather Report's case, the overwhelming control of co-leaders Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter has reined in the skills of bassist Victor Bailey, drummer Omar Hakim and percussionist José Rossy in service of highly crafted but essentially petrified music."[4]
Charles McCollum of the Hartford Courant declared "The best part of any Weather Report effort is the interaction between Zawinul's multi-toned synthesizers and Shorter's blazing work on alto and tenor saxophones... Departures have done little to alter the consistent excellence of Weather Report's music and, if anything, Procession is one of the best albums the group has offered during its time together."[5]
Track listing
Side one
- "Procession" (Josef Zawinul) – 8:42
- "Plaza Real" (Wayne Shorter) – 5:30
- "Two Lines" (Zawinul) – 7:43
Side two
- "Where the Moon Goes" (Zawinul, lyrics by Nan O'Byrne and Zawinul) – 7:50
- "The Well" (Shorter, Zawinul) – 4:00
- "Molasses Run" (Omar Hakim) – 5:49
Personnel
Weather Report
- Joe Zawinul – keyboards
- Wayne Shorter – tenor and soprano saxophones
- Omar Hakim – drums, guitar, vocals
- Victor Bailey – bass
- José Rossy – percussion, concertina
Additional musician
- The Manhattan Transfer – vocals (track 4)
Production
- Neil Dorfsman – engineer
- Tom Fouce – engineer
- Mitch Gibson – engineer
- Tom Miller – engineer
- John Lykes – cover artwork
- Bruce Talamon – photography
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ginell, Richard S. "Procession - Weather Report". Allmusic. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 204. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1475. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Futterman, Steve (June 1983). "Procession review". Record. Vol. 2, no. 8. p. 29.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McCollum, Charles (March 20, 1983). "New Jazz Releases". Hartford Courant. p. 105. Retrieved April 30, 2025 – via newspapers.com.
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