Consumer Guide Album

Weather Report: Sweetnighter [Columbia, 1973]
Ask yourself: What kind of a jazz (or rock) (or jazz-rock) group would conceive its sonar identity around electric keyboards and soprano sax? A pretty dinky (not dunky) one, right? So while I'm pleased that they're going for a drum groove a little solider than anything Dom Um Romao can move and shake, I'm not surprised that they get it only--just barely, in fact--on "125th Street congress." And that "Boogie Woogie Waltz" is fatally cute, ace improvisations and all. B