The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981 Weather Report

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Album-Release:
1978

HRA-Release:
19.11.2015

Label: Sony Music / Columbia / Legacy

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Fusion

Artist: Weather Report

Composer: Weather Report

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  • 1 8:30 02:19
  • 2 Sightseeing 07:34
  • 3 Brown Street 11:17
  • 4 The Orphan 01:51
  • 5 Forlorn 04:11
  • 6 Three Views of a Secret 07:33
  • 7 Medley: Badia / Boogie Woogie Waltz 10:58
  • 8 Wayne Solo 07:34
  • 9 Jaco Solo (Osaka 1980) 07:59
  • 10 Joe and Wayne Duet (Tokyo 1978) 08:40
  • 11 Birdland 06:18
  • 12 Peter's Solo 04:43
  • 13 A Remark You Made 07:34
  • 14 Continuum / River People 12:22
  • 15 Gibraltar 21:08
  • 16 Fast City 08:38
  • 17 Madagascar 17:44
  • 18 Night Passage 10:07
  • 19 Dream Clock 09:37
  • 20 Rockin' In Rhythm 04:21
  • 21 Port of Entry 12:35
  • 22 Elegant People 09:18
  • 23 Scarlet Woman 11:53
  • 24 Black Market 13:14
  • 25 Jaco Solo (Osaka 1978) 08:19
  • 26 Teen Town 08:59
  • 27 Peter's Drum Solo (Osaka 1978) 03:59
  • 28 Directions 06:50
  • Total Runtime 04:07:35

Info for The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981

Vier Alben umfassendes Set mit bislang unveröffentlichten Liveaufnahmen der Jazz-Fusion-Legende aus den Jahren 1978 bis 1981, eingespielt von der Besetzung der späten 70er/frühen 80er mit Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Peter Erskine und Bobby Thomas Jr.

Die 1970 von den Miles-Davis-Mitstreitern gegründete Band Weather Report entzog sich in den 16 Jahren ihres Bestehens erfolgreich jeder Kategorisierung. Inspiriert von den »elektrischen« Kollaborationen mit dem großen Miles betraten Zawinul und Shorter mit ihrer Combo kaum erforschtes musikalisches Territorium und bewegten sich vom Free Jazz hin zu überbordendem, multikulturellem, aber deutlich strukturierterem Jazz Rock.

Oft wurden Weather Report zu Zawinuls Leidwesen („We don't fuse nothing, we just play from the heart“) als „Fusion-Band“ bezeichnet, aber wie auch immer man sie einordnet, eines ist klar: die Band war entscheidend am revolutionären Veränderungsprozess beteiligt, den der Jazz in den 1970ern und 1980ern durchlief.

Als 1976 Bassvirtuose Jaco Pastorius zur Band stieß, katapultierte sein Spiel Weather Report in eine noch spektakulärere Dimension und in der neuen Besetzung konnte die Band 1977 mit „Birdland“ sogar einen veritablen Crossover-Hit landen. Ein Jahr später stieß Drummer Peter Erskine zu der Combo, die 1980 mit dem Perkussionisten Bobby Thomas Jr. zum Quintett erweitert wurde.

Als Quartett und Quintett erlebten Weather Report ihre großartigsten Momente, die auf diesem 4-fach Album umfassenden Set verewigt wurden. Als Ausgangsmaterial dienten nie gehörte Soundboard-Tapes des Toningenieurs Brian Risner, der viele Jahre bei den Auftritten der Band am Mischpult stand. Produziert wurde The Legendary Live Tapes, das die außergewöhnlichen Live-Qualitäten der Band auf dem Höhepunkt ihres Schaffens eindrücklich demonstriert, von Peter Erskine und Zawinuls Sohn Anthony.

Joe Zawinul, keyboards
Wayne Shorter, saxophone
Jaco Pastorius, electric bass
Peter Erskine, drums
Robert Thomas, Jr., hand drums

Produziert von Peter Erskine und Zawinuls Sohn Tony

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Weather Report
started out as a jazz equivalent of what the rock world in 1970 was calling a "supergroup." But unlike most of the rock supergroups, this one not only kept going for a good 15 years, it more than lived up to its billing, practically defining the state of the jazz-rock art throughout almost all of its run. Weather Report also anticipated and contributed to the North American interest in world music rhythms and structures, prodded by keyboardist/co-founder Joe Zawinul. And WR, like many of jazz's great long-lived groups, proved to be an incubator for several future leaders who passed in and out of the band in a never-ending series of revolving-door personnel changes.

The original members of the band were Zawinul, Wayne Shorter (saxophones), Miroslav Vitous (electric bass), Airto Moreira (percussion) and Alphonse Mouzon (drums), with only Zawinul and (until 1985) Shorter remaining in place throughout the band's lifespan. Zawinul, Shorter and Moreira all had experience playing in and influencing the studio and live electric bands of Miles Davis -- and at first, WR was a direct extension of Miles' In a Silent Way/b****es Brew period, with free-floating collective improvisation and interplay, combining elements of jazz, rock, funk, Latin and other ethnic musics.

With the release of Sweetnighter in 1972, Zawinul's influence upon the band's direction began to deepen; the groove became more important, structures were imposed upon the material (though the group continued its freewheeling interplay in live gigs).

When the innovative bassist Jaco Pastorius replaced Alphonso Johnson in 1976, WR entered its most popular phase, with Pastorius becoming a flamboyant third lead voice, Shorter's sax receding into more epigrammatic form, and Zawinul rediscovering his commercial touch and sharpening his electronic sophistication. The best-selling Heavy Weather album (1977) actually served up a hit song that became a jazz standard ("Birdland"), and with the entry of Peter Erskine on drums (1978), the group finally had a stable lineup for awhile. Contrary to accepted wisdom, the departures of Pastorius and Erskine in 1982 led to a recharging of WR's batteries; their replacements Victor Bailey (bass), Omar Hakim (drums), Jose Rossy and later, Mino Cinelu (percussion) were more amenable to Zawinul's deepening inclinations for Third World rhythms, sounds and textures.

This edition of WR rattled off three more albums, including the outstanding Procession. But Shorter, who had gradually ceded nearly total artistic control to Zawinul, was getting restless; he took a leave of absence in 1985 and later that year, left WR for good.

This Is This (1985), in which Erskine returns and Shorter plays only a limited role, was WR's swan song. Zawinul would tour in 1986 with a revamped version called Weather Update (a prelude to the keyboardist's own Zawinul Syndicate), and there was talk in 1996 about Zawinul and Shorter reuniting in the studio for a new edition of WR, but Zawinul later deflated the speculation. (Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide)

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