Weather Report

Electronics can be cold. At high volume levels those nuances of phrasing and texture
which have always communicated the essence of jazz, from Armstrong to Parker to
Coltrane, tend to blur or disappear altogether. In the beginning Weather Report seemed to
be an unusually cold band, programming textures and rhythms from an immense distance,
sculpting impressive lines but from solid ice. Mysterious Traveller is different. It's... More >

Not bad, not bad--but is that all there is? Maybe what makes the traveller so mysterious is that he doesn't go anywhere in particular. Not even with Alphonso Johnson pushing like hell from underneath. (Grade: B)