45 years ago today, Weather Report kicked off the 19th annual Jazz à Juan in Juan-les-Pins, France. This was their second time performing at the festival, and the set consisted of songs recorded between 1974 and 1978 with one new addition; the blazing "8:30" / "Sightseeing" medley, which features Jaco Pastorius on drums. The band was at the top of their game, and this mostly complete cassette tape provides us with some fantastic live renditions. Weather Report's versatility is on full display with a setlist featuring everything from the thumping "Scarlet Woman" to a jam-packed rendition of "Teen Town." One of my absolute favourites, though, has to be "A Remark You Made," which features an absolutely stellar outro starting at roughly 8:37. As usual, the group also managed to fit in a bass solo and an improvisational duet featuring more brilliant interplay between Joe and Wayne. The bass solo-almost 10 minutes in length-features heavy use of harmonics, digital delay, and distortion as was usual, but also a short improvisation around Ornette Coleman's "Round Trip" similar in nature to a lot of what he played at the 1979 Newport Jazz Festival New York solo performance some weeks earlier. The solo spots are followed by "Birdland," which ends one of the finest Weather Report live recordings of 1979. Jazz à Juan would continue on July 17 with performances by The L.A. Four and the Concord Super Band. The group wouldn't play in Juan-les-Pins again until 1984, by which point Jaco was touring with his own Word of Mouth Band, and Peter Erskine was touring and recording with the jazz fusion outfit Steps Ahead. Overall, it's a really nice recording. I applied some de-clip and de-click, and now it's even better. Hope you dig it as much as I do! Timestamps are below. 00:00:00 8.30 / Sightseeing 00:07:57 Black Market 00:20:51 Scarlet Woman 00:32:42 Teen Town 00:42:55 A Remark You Made 00:53:46 Slang (Bass Solo) 01:03:39 Piano and Saxophone Improvisation 01:11:47 Birdland www.linktr.ee/jacoarchive
This concert has one of my favorite versions of "Scarlet Woman" on it. And the rest of it is great too of course. Thanks for upgrading the recording! Much better than my copy :)
A BIG THANK YOU for this show (Jaco have an excellent sound and game of course ; Joseph a sophisticated keyboard like always ; Peter Erskine to ; just Wayne Shorter have a litle sound) anyway it's a great music ; lot of thanks again
On July 15, 1979 I attended this concert, I was 19 years old and knew nothing about Jazz or Jazz Rock. It's the concert of my life and 45 years later I'm still thinking about it: What happened to me that evening... As I said much later to Joe Zawinul: When I saw Jaco coming on stage, I thought I saw Bruce Lee with a bass! Joe loved my comparison.. Thank you for posting the sound of this concert!!! Love to Jaco Love to Joe John Beake (From Nice)
o man - despite poor sound quality ... I LOVE THIS 🤩 They really had their peak then with Pete & Jaco (!!) ... I'm "too young" - so I missed seeing them live then 🥺 (sorry for my poor English quality)😉
@@JacoPastoriusArchive ok - maybe it's a matter of my stereo 😉 , I really love your work and your channel 👍 , and - most of all : I LOVE JACO - he is one of my three Fav`- musicians of all time and indeed ruled a big part of my life 😍
45 years ago today, Weather Report kicked off the 19th annual Jazz à Juan in Juan-les-Pins, France. This was their second time performing at the festival, and the set consisted of songs recorded between 1974 and 1978 with one new addition; the blazing "8:30" / "Sightseeing" medley, which features Jaco Pastorius on drums.
The band was at the top of their game, and this mostly complete cassette tape provides us with some fantastic live renditions. Weather Report's versatility is on full display with a setlist featuring everything from the thumping "Scarlet Woman" to a jam-packed rendition of "Teen Town." One of my absolute favourites, though, has to be "A Remark You Made," which features an absolutely stellar outro starting at roughly 8:37.
As usual, the group also managed to fit in a bass solo and an improvisational duet featuring more brilliant interplay between Joe and Wayne. The bass solo-almost 10 minutes in length-features heavy use of harmonics, digital delay, and distortion as was usual, but also a short improvisation around Ornette Coleman's "Round Trip" similar in nature to a lot of what he played at the 1979 Newport Jazz Festival New York solo performance some weeks earlier.
The solo spots are followed by "Birdland," which ends one of the finest Weather Report live recordings of 1979. Jazz à Juan would continue on July 17 with performances by The L.A. Four and the Concord Super Band. The group wouldn't play in Juan-les-Pins again until 1984, by which point Jaco was touring with his own Word of Mouth Band, and Peter Erskine was touring and recording with the jazz fusion outfit Steps Ahead.
Overall, it's a really nice recording. I applied some de-clip and de-click, and now it's even better. Hope you dig it as much as I do! Timestamps are below.
00:00:00 8.30 / Sightseeing
00:07:57 Black Market
00:20:51 Scarlet Woman
00:32:42 Teen Town
00:42:55 A Remark You Made
00:53:46 Slang (Bass Solo)
01:03:39 Piano and Saxophone Improvisation
01:11:47 Birdland
www.linktr.ee/jacoarchive
This concert has one of my favorite versions of "Scarlet Woman" on it. And the rest of it is great too of course. Thanks for upgrading the recording! Much better than my copy :)
A BIG THANK YOU for this show (Jaco have an excellent sound and game of course ; Joseph a sophisticated keyboard like always ; Peter Erskine to ; just Wayne Shorter have a litle sound) anyway it's a great music ; lot of thanks again
On July 15, 1979 I attended this concert, I was 19 years old and knew nothing about Jazz or Jazz Rock.
It's the concert of my life and 45 years later I'm still thinking about it: What happened to me that evening...
As I said much later to Joe Zawinul: When I saw Jaco coming on stage, I thought I saw Bruce Lee with a bass! Joe loved my comparison..
Thank you for posting the sound of this concert!!!
Love to Jaco
Love to Joe
John Beake (From Nice)
o man - despite poor sound quality ... I LOVE THIS 🤩
They really had their peak then with Pete & Jaco (!!) ... I'm "too young" - so I missed seeing them live then 🥺
(sorry for my poor English quality)😉
I agree with everything except the poor audio quality; I think this sounds very good. Thanks for checking it out!
@@JacoPastoriusArchive ok - maybe it's a matter of my stereo 😉 ,
I really love your work and your channel 👍 , and - most of all :
I LOVE JACO - he is one of my three Fav`- musicians of all time and indeed ruled a big part of my life 😍
I tried uploading this yesterday on the actual anniversary, but UA-cam age-restricted it. Thoughts on the recording?