Weather Report - Live in Offenbach - September 28, 1978
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- Опубліковано 1 вер 2012
- Weather Report
Live in Offenbach, Germany
Sept. 28, 1978
Artists:
- Joe Zawinul (keyboards)
- Wanye Shorter (tenor and soprano saxophone)
- Jaco Pastorius (electric bass)
- Peter Erkskine (drums)
Tracklist:
00:00 Black Market
10:12 Joe's intro to Scarlet Woman/"Liftoff"
13:27 Scarlet Woman
19:37 Young and Fine
26:21 The Pursuit of the Woman with the Feathered Hat
33:11 A Remark You Made
40:15 River People
48:08 Thanks for the Memories (Solo Wayne - Tenor)
51:55 Dolores / Portrait of Tracy / Third Stone from the Sun (Jaco's Solo)
1:01:45 Mr. Gone
1:10:24 In a Silent Way
1:12:37 Waterfall
1:14:27 Teen Town
1:22:37 I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good (Solo Joe)
1:26:00 The Midnight Sun Will Never Set On You (Joe & Wayne)
1:31:26 Birdland
1:38:15 Introductions
1:40:02 Fred & Jack (Solo Peter)
1:47:32 Elegant People
1:55:28 Badia
Previously unreleased recordings from pioneering fusion band Weather Report playing live in the 1970s are streaming from the late Joe Zawinul's estate in the group's 40th anniversary year. This spring's 1975 Live in Berlin set caught the band beginning to sense its power over a rock audience. Live in Offenbach, from September 1978, features the band that included bass-guitar star Jaco Pastorius. It also included Peter Erskine, a shrewd drummer who helped reintroduce a cooler jazz feel after the critical hammering that had greeted the overcooked, studio-made Mr Gone earlier that year. Stripped down to a quartet, the band sound engaged (particularly the sometimes enigmatic saxist Wayne Shorter), and after the standard early workouts on their hits, they get surprisingly loose and open. Shorter exhibits Sonny Rollins's muscular solo-sax whimsicality on the standard Thanks for the Memory, and Zawinul's wealth of acoustic-piano improv ideas burst out of I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good, while Birdland has a bright, rough-and-ready energy. Pastorius's driving basslines thunder through the music, even if his solo spots tend to emit more heat than light. It's a vivid show from a WR period sometimes considered short of inspiration.
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I'm sure people have seen this, but do you see that Zawinul has his right handed keyboard set up like an accordian. It's tuned backwards. If he goes left, the pitch goes up, he goes right, the pitch goes down. What really wigs me out is that he later plays unison lines on two keyboards. One tuned like an accordian, one tuned like a piano. I pointed this out a long time ago but nobody has commented on it. I know he started as an accordian player, but the unison stuff would wig me out. What a GREAT musicain. I remember seeing this tour at the Beacon in NYC. One of the greatest bands of all time.
Jaco's infectious smile as Teen Town starts, if only he had no downtime to get into trouble and just played music 24/7. R.I.P. to one of the greatest bass players ever
One of the greatest bands of all time.
Weather Report - The Greatest Fusion Band of All Time!
Peter Erskine's stamina and clarity through this whole set is beyond impressive. Massive Respect to the drumming sasquatch
First time I heard Weather Report (on endless looping cassette) was driving with a new friend through the desert to Oregon in deep winter (1977). From the heat of Death Valley to the frosty snowy Cascade Mountains - Sweetnighter had me in a trance the entire trip. The magical music and amazing visuals are one mesmerizing memory entwined together in my mind like a favorite movie
I still like my life when I can listen to this.
To experience Jaco in his prime is always amazing.
Dont't forget the incredible sax player, Wyane Shorter. He played that sax like the old days, fascinating. And he compossed some good songs for the group.
Getting a little older now, and I've been listening to so much crap over the years that I honestly forgot a lot of these beautiful songs that WR made so long ago. I have to thank you guys for posting so much good music on YT. It's theraputic and "fills the hole in my musical soul"!.
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Real music, played by real musicians. Shorter is easily one of the greatest reed players, ever. He says more with four notes than most can accomplish with four bars.
Fantastic, amazing band in its best version. Jaco Pastorius is an amazing bass player and musician, providing so vivid passages, incredible sound and mastery of the instrument. The other master is Wayne Shorter, my favourite jazz player, saxophonist and composer ever. His imagination, sound and never ever fear to take risks and to explore the universe. What an amazing performance!
You know i grew up in same neighborhood with Jaco. He was a little older than me. Met him a few times,knew his brothers Rory and Greg. I became a musician myself, but this music is great but off my scale. Ya know what I mean. The theory behind this stuff is unbelievable. The tight jams without a train wreck is amazing. All these guys were amazing. So glad i got it here it again in a live setting. Hey Mom Pastorious if your still here this is Kenny Cabral from the old neighborhood. God Bless
I could listen to Peter Erskine all night long--my favorite of the entire pantheon of drummers in WR.
Sometimes when I listen to Weather Report, it feels similar to sunlight breaking through a gap in the clouds, the feeling you get when everything around you, for a fleeting moment, suddenly becomes clear.
A once in a lifetime band. So wonderful. I miss Jaco and Zawinul.
There will never be another jazz band like Weather Report - simply spectacular. They play notes, chords, phrasings that have never been played before. And perhaps never will again.
40 years ago...this concert ...and still FANTASTIC...this music will never die!!
Zawinul always seemed like the commander of a spaceship at the helm on his keyboards. Man do I miss seeing him.