8:30

8:30
Live album by
Weather Report
ReleasedAugust 1979
RecordedNovember 28, 1978 (and other dates in late 1978)[1]
VenueTerrace Theater, Long Beach, California (plus "other locations")
GenreJazz fusion
Length80:58
LabelARC, Columbia
ProducerJoe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius
Weather Report chronology
Mr. Gone
(1978) 		8:30
(1979) 		Night Passage
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideB+ [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]
Record Mirror[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[6]

8:30 is the second live album from the jazz fusion group Weather Report, issued in 1979 by ARC/Columbia Records.[7] The album rose to No. 3 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart and No. 47 on the Billboard 200 chart.[8][9] 8:30 also won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance.[10]

  1. ^ Bianchi, Curt. "8:30". www.WeatherReportDiscography.org. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  2. ^ Meredith, Bill. "Weather Report - 8:30 (1979) album review, credits & releases". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: W". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 22, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. US: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 204. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. ^ Kluth, Susan (September 29, 1979). "Weather Report 8:30". Record Mirror. Vol. 26, no. 39. p. 22.
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1475. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. ^ Weather Report - 8:30. ARC/Columbia Records. 1979.
  8. ^ "Billboard Best Selling Jazz LPs". Billboard Magazine. Vol. 91, no. 46. November 17, 1979. p. 56 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ "Weather Report: 8:30 (Billboard 200)". billboard.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2019.
  10. ^ "Weather Report". grammy.com. The Recording Academy.