Aug 17, 2020
Today I’m joined by composer David Hirschfelder
(Australia, Strictly Ballroom, Sliding Doors) to take the show’s
first cautious steps into the world of jazz fusion, with Weather
Report’s 1977 classic ‘Heavy Weather’.
After a brief discussion of David’s majestic 80s mullet, we dive
into all of it - fusing electronic sounds and rock attitude into
celebrations of trad jazz, the surprising hit status of ‘Birdland’,
how it inspired David to fuse electronic and acoustic sounds and
influenced his scores for films like ‘Strictly Ballroom’, how the
album has dated in a positive way, seeing the band live in their
heyday and the genius of bass legend Jaco
Pastorius.