MR. GONE

Heavy Weather, Part 2, with all the same strengths and weaknesses, but lacking a standout composition on the order of "Birdland" (or even "Nubian Sundance" or "The Man in the Green Shirt"). Mr. Gone is a more satisfying record than Black Market, Jaco Pastorius' debut with the group, but a far cry the remarkable peaks of Mysterious Traveler and Tale Spinnin', and far less engaging than the search for a stable identity embodied in the group's first two albums.