Weather Report - Heavy Weather

I first heard Birdland, the opening track from this album, on the 1981 Akai TV ad (it's on YouTube).

Playing it today, I'm fixated by Jaco Pastorius' bass playing. He never plays a predictable note. It's remarkable how his bass makes the usually assertive Zawinul and Shorter sound like side-men.

I know everyone would have been happy to never heard a fretless bass again by the time No Parlez came out, but blimey this is good.