Tale Spinnin'

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Tale Spinnin'
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Studio album by
Weather Report
ReleasedMay 1975
RecordedFebruary 1975 - April 4, 1975
StudioWally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, California
GenreJazz fusion
Length43:01
LabelColumbia
ProducerWayne Shorter, Josef Zawinul
Weather Report chronology
Mysterious Traveller
(1974) 		Tale Spinnin'
(1975) 		Black Market
(1976)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic4/5 stars[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB–[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide3/5 stars[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3.5/4 stars[4]

Tale Spinnin' is the fifth studio 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.

Track listing[]

All tracks composed by Joe Zawinul unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Man in the Green Shirt" – 6:29
  2. "Lusitanos" (Wayne Shorter) – 7:25
  3. "Between the Thighs" – 9:33
  4. "Badia" – 5:21
  5. "Freezing Fire" (Wayne Shorter) – 7:29
  6. "Five Short Stories" – 6:56

Note

  • Canadian copies of the album list the tracks in a different order on the inner sleeve, with a seventh track titled "Krampus" added. However, the music heard on the album is the same as on other pressings.[5]

Release history[]

In addition to the usual 2-channel stereo version the album was also released by Columbia in 1975 in 4-channel quadraphonic sound on LP record and 8-track tape. The quad LP release was encoded in the SQ matrix system. The quad mixes were performed by Bruce Botnick.

The album was reissued in the UK on the Super Audio CD format in 2018 by Dutton Vocalion. This edition contains both the stereo and quad mixes.

Personnel[]

Technical
  • Bruce Botnick - recording engineer, mixing
  • Wayne Shorter - mixing
  • Teresa Alfieri, John Berg - cover design

References[]

  1. ^ Ginell, Richard S. "Tale Spinnin' - Weather Report | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: W". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 22, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 204. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1475. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ Discogs

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