I Sing the Body Electric | ||||
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Studio album with 3 live recordings by | ||||
Released | May 26, 1972 | |||
Recorded | November 1971; January 13, 1972 | |||
Venue | Shibuya Kokaido Hall, Tokyo, Japan | |||
Studio | Columbia Recording Studios, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
Length | 46:28 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Shoviza Productions | |||
Weather Report chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Christgau's Record Guide | B[2] |
Rolling Stone | (not rated)[3] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [5] |
Sputnikmusic | 3.5/5[4] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [6] |
I Sing the Body Electric is the second studio album released by the American jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1972.
The album includes two new members of the band: percussionist Dom Um Romão and drummer Eric Gravatt. The last three tracks were recorded live in concert in Tokyo, Japan on January 13, 1972. These tracks have been edited for this album and can be heard in their entirety on Weather Report's 1972 import album Live in Tokyo.
The album takes its name from an 1855 poem by Walt Whitman and a 1969 short story by Ray Bradbury.
Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "Significantly less Milesian than their debut, which is impressive but not necessarily good—the difference is that this is neater, more antiseptic, its bottom less dirty and its top less sexy. I find myself interested but never engaged, and I'm sure one piece is a flop—'Crystal', described by the annotator as 'about' time. Sing the body electric and I'm with you. Sing the body short-circuited and you'd better turn me on."[2]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Unknown Soldier" | Josef Zawinul | 8:00 |
2. | "The Moors" | Wayne Shorter | 4:45 |
3. | "Crystal" | Miroslav Vitouš | 7:25 |
4. | "Second Sunday in August" | Zawinul | 4:13 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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5. | "Medley: Vertical Invader / T.H. / Dr. Honoris Causa" | Zawinul, Vitouš | 10:40 |
6. | "Surucucú" | Shorter | 7:42 |
7. | "Directions" | Zawinul | 4:36 |
Total length: | 46:28 |
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