Artists
Musicians featured in this piece are:
Joe Zawinul – Yamaha grand piano, Rhodes electric piano, ARP 2600 synthesizers, Oberheim polyphonic synthesizer, melodica and orchestration
Wayne Shorter – soprano and tenor saxophone and Computone Lyricon
Alphonso Johnson – electric bass
Narada Michael Walden – drums
Alex Acuña – congas and percussion
Don Alias – congas and percussion
The song was written and composed by Joe Zawinul. Produced by Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, engineered by Ron Malo at Devonshire Sound, North Hollywood, California.
Note: The title track features a shifting rhythm section — Narada Michael Walden handles the second half of the drums on this track, while Chester Thompson, who played on most of the album’s other tracks, does not appear here. Jaco Pastorius, who made his Weather Report debut on this album, does not appear on the title track either, featuring only on “Cannon Ball” and “Barbary Coast.”
Weather Report – Black Market Lyrics
(This piece by Weather Report is fully instrumental, and therefore doesn’t have any lyrics)
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