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Weather Report: Fair Weather Jazz Fans Leave Them Alone

David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 27 September 1973

PASADENA, CALIF. — "Our music demands everything from the listener," says Josef Zawinul seriously. "Either you love it or you don't — there's no middle road. You can't eat or talk during it because it will not allow you to. Instead, you will get sick of it and leave. Still, I think we are capable of getting an audience's total attention and holding it."

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