Harlequin is a jazz composition by Wayne Shorter. Its original recording was made by Weather Report for the album Heavy Weather, released by Columbia in March 1977, where it appears as track 4 on side A, running 3:59. Shorter plays soprano saxophone on the track, Joe Zawinul plays Yamaha grand piano, and Manolo Badrena provides vocals. Heavy Weather was recorded between December 1976 and January 1977 at Devonshire Sound Studios in North Hollywood and produced by Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius and Shorter. The album became Weather Report's most commercially successful, selling a million copies in the United States by 1991, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011. The composition has since been recorded by other artists, including Max Leake and Dave Askren with Jeff Benedict.
