Sweetnighter

Infobox Album |
Name = Sweetnighter
Type = Studio album
Artist = Weather Report


Released = 1973
Recorded = February 3, 1973 - February 7, 1973
Genre = Jazz fusion
Length = 44:41
Label = Columbia Records
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:pgx7gjwr86iv link]
Last album = "Live in Tokyo"
(1972)
This album = "Sweetnighter"
(1973)
Next album = "Mysterious Traveller"
(1974)

"Sweetnighter" is Weather Report's third album, released in 1973. Originally, Weather Report was almost completely an improvisatory band. Though the improvising is ever present, the music is more structured than previously heard.

Track listing

#"Boogie Woogie Waltz" (Zawinul)– 13:06
#"Manolete" (Traditional)– 5:58
#"Adios" (Madriguera, Woods)– 3:02
#"125th Street Congress" (Zawinul)– 12:16
#"Will" (Vitous)– 6:22
#"Non-Stop Home" (Shorter)– 3:53

Personnel

*Josef Zawinul - Electric and acoustic piano, synthesizer
*Wayne Shorter - Soprano and tenor sax
*Miroslav Vitous - Electric and acoustic bass
*Eric Gravatt - Drums (tracks 2, 4 and 6)
*Dom Um Romão - Percussion

with

*Muruga Booker - Percussion
*Andrew White (saxophonist) - Electric bass (tracks 1, 4 and 6), English horn (tracks 3 and 5)
*Herschel Dwellingham - Drums (tracks 1, 2, 3 and 6)

External links

* [http://www.binkie.net/wrdisc/Sweetnighter.html Weather Report Annotated Discography: Sweetnighter]