Tale Spinnin'

Infobox Album |
Name = Tale Spinnin'
Type = Studio album
Artist = Weather Report


Released = 1975
Recorded = February 1975 - April 4, 1975 Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre = Jazz fusion
Length = 43:01
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Wayne Shorter, Josef Zawinul
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6ojuea114xu7 link] |
Last album = "Mysterious Traveller"
(1974)
This album = "Tale Spinnin"'
(1975)
Next album = "Black Market"
(1976)

"Tale Spinnin is Weather Report's fifth album, featuring the addition of Leon "Ndugu" Chanceler on the drums. Ndugu was recruited after Zawinul heard him play with Carlos Santana and liked what he heard. Weather Report was recording next door to Ndugu in the studio. He 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

#"Man in the Green Shirt" (Zawinul) – 6:29
#"Lusitanos" (Shorter) – 7:25
#"Between the Thighs" (Zawinul) – 9:33
#"Badia" (Zawinul) – 5:21
#"Freezing Fire" (Shorter) – 7:29
#"Five Short Stories" (Zawinul) – 6:56

Personnel

*Josef Zawinul - Rhodes piano, melodica, acoustic piano, TONTO synthesizer, ARP 2600 synthesizer, organ, steel drums, out, mzuthra, vocals, West Africk, xylophone, cymbals
*Wayne Shorter - Soprano and tenor saxophones
*Alphonso Johnson - Electric bass
*Leon "Ndugu" Chancler - Drums, tympani, marching cymbals
*Alyrio Lima - Percussion

External links

* [http://www.binkie.net/wrdisc/Tale%20Spinnin.html Weather Report Annotated Discography: Tale Spinnin']