High Wind In Birdland: Weather Report's Procession
Richard Cook, NME, 19 March 1983
I DON'T BELIEVE IT, but they've done it again. Just when it seemed that the tuneless roar of last year's Weather Report had permanently iced over the incandescence of one of the world's great groups, Procession torches most of the old brilliance back to life. As Lazarus acts go this one demands letters to The Lancet.
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