Heavy Weather

Remastered CD and MiniDisc reissue of the album.

Heavy Weather is the seventh album by Weather Report, released in 1977 through Columbia Records. By 1991, the release had sold 1,000,000 copies in the US alone; it would prove to be the band's most commercially successful album and one of the best sellers in the Columbia jazz catalog. DownBeat magazine gave Heavy Weather a five-star review, and later its readers voted it jazz album of the year.

The lineup for the album consisted of Weather Report founders Joe Zawinul (keyboards, synthesizers) and Wayne Shorter (saxophone), alongside Jaco Pastorius (bass), Alex Acuña (drums), and Manolo Badrena (percussion). It was produced and orchestrated by Zawinul, with additional production by Shorter and Pastorius, and engineered by Ron Malo.


Manufactured By – Columbia Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Copyright © – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Recorded At – Devonshire Studios
Mastered At – Sony Music Studios, New York City

A&R [Columbia Jazz Reissue Series] – Kevin Gore, Steve Berkowitz
Art Direction [Reissue Art Direction] – Howard Fritzson
Co-producer – Jaco Pastorius
Coordinator [A&R Coordination] – Patti Matheny
Coordinator [Project Director] – Seth Rothstein
Design – Nancy Donald
Design [Reissue Design] – Randall Martin
Engineer – Ron Malo
Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Brian Risner, Jerry Hudgins
Illustration – Lou Beach
Liner Notes [July 1997] – John Ephland
Management [Packaging Manager] – Nicholas Bennett
Mastered By [Digitally Mastered By] – Mark Wilder
Other [Chief Meteorologist] – Brian Risner
Photography By – Keith Williams*
Photography By [Liner Photography] – Don Hunstein
Photography By [Page 4] – Sony Music Archives
Producer [Assistant Producer] – Wayne Shorter
Producer [Original Producer], Orchestrated By [Orchestrator] – Joe Zawinul
Producer [Production Assistance] – Rene Arsenault
Reissue Producer [Produced For Reissue By] – Bob Belden

© 1997 Sony Music Entertainment Inc./ ℗ 1977 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Disc(s) made in Germany. Packaged in USA.