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Back in 1980, Weather Report consisted of Wayne Shorter (tenor and soprano sax), Joe Zawinul (keyboards), Jaco Pastorius (bass), Peter Erskine (drums), and Bobby Thomas Jr. (percussion). Often considered as one of the best line ups in the band's history, this was a super tight combo playing with the same energy and power of a big band. The 1980 tour, also known as the "Night Passage" tour, is also remembered for the great visual impact, a large-scale staging including laser and film projections. The Atlanra Fox Theater show sees the band at its peak, performing great renditions of classic tunes such as Zawinul's "Madagascar" and "Fast City," Pastorius' "Three Views of a Secret," and Shorter's "Port of Entry." This is an important live document from the greatest electric jazz band of all times, period!
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Weather Report's long and illustrious career had many twists, turns and revelations. Live In London draws on the best moments of performances delivered at the Hammersmith Odeon in June 1983, with former Chic percussionist Jose Rossy, plus a take of "Corner Pocket" as played at the Dominion Theatre one year later with Mino Cinelu. Mainstay Joe Zawinul mans the ship alongside saxophonist Wayne Shorter, this edition of WR driven by the frantic beats of Omar Hakim and the bass of Victor Bailey, less showy than Jaco yet just as engaging. Initially cut for radio broadcast, fans of late-era Weather Report will love every moment.
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Probably one of the best incarnations of Weather Report, with a percussionist on board. In fact, for most of their existence, the band did have a fifth member. It was only sometime after Heavy Weather (1977) that the band started touring as a quartet, with Jaco Pastorius and Peter Erskine holding down the rhythm section. With the release of Night Passage (1980) they had added Bobby Thompson to the empty percussion chair and went back on the road. This is a live recording of the Night Passage band recorded in February 1980 at the Fox Theater.
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"To celebrate the 40th 'birthday' of one of the world's best bands -- Weather Report -- the label Art of Groove is releasing the band's Rockpalast concert in Cologne 1983 -- a premiere on DVD. What a feast the concert was for the Cologne-based audience that night, and is now for us all these years later. As Omar Hakim has said: 'Weather Report wasn't typical instrumental music: there was Europe, Africa, jazz, blues, Latin, all inside one thing. It was true world music...'' Here's to that! After Jaco Pastorius and Peter Erskine left the band, Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter decided to continue their successful project with a new rhythm set: drummer Omar Hakim, Victor Bailey on bass and percussionist Jose Rossy. For Bailey and Hakim it was the starting point of their international career. Weather Report's Cologne concert shows the band in musical top form. In a more than two-hour show, the band sparks a firework of rhythm and melodies. Next to classics like 'Birdland,' in this concert you will hear pieces from later phase of Weather Report: 'D Flat Waltz,' 'Procession,' 'Fast City,' 'Where The Moon Goes' and 'Two Lines'. The material which was originally recorded by the WDR (West German Radio and Television Broadcasting) has been completely restored and re-mastered and is now appearing in a new version --something that's not just for long-time fans of Weather Report."
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FOX 035LP
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The jazz supergroup "par excellence", Weather Report played a legendary show in front of an adoring audience at the Shinjuku Koseinenkin Hall in Tokyo in 1978. Broadcast live by NHK Radio on June 28th, this gig featured the band as a quartet for the first time, with Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, and Jaco Pastorius joined by new kid Peter Erskine on drums.
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"By September of 1978 Weather Report's headlining status afforded them the opportunity to play a very long set amounting to two hours in length. Given the previous year's success with the poll winning Heavy Weather album one might have expected them to concentrate on this more or less exclusively, but instead, fans were treated to material from right across the bands career and solo spots by everybody. 'Black Market' opens this concert and straight away it's apparent that the energy level is high and the relaxed pace of the studio version has been superseded by a slightly faster tempo. An explosive tenor and drum duet by Shorter and Erskine also forms part of this and must have surely put an end to the feeling in some quarters at the time that the saxophonist was no longer at his best. Also on board were flamboyant electric bassist Jaco Pastorius, a genuine innovator, and newly arrived drummer Peter Erskine a master technician brought into the group to add more of a jazz feel. Joe Zawinul was keen to stress that Weather Reports music was their music, a product of the group's identity, and not simply jazz-rock akin to that of many bands of the time. Although he was known for his strong opinions it's clear that no other group mixed improvisation, formal structures and electronics quite like them. One night in Germany is clear proof of this."
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Two 180-gram LPs with insert. Weather Report are widely regarded as America's finest-ever jazz fusion band. Originally recorded for FM broadcast, this superb live set at The Agora in Columbus, Ohio, on October 17, 1972, was taped a few months after the release of their classic 1972 album I Sing the Body Electric, and features Joe Zawinul (keyboards), Wayne Shorter (saxophone), Miroslav Vitous (bass), Eric Gravátt (drums), and Dom Um Romão (percussion). The complete broadcast is presented here in remastered sound with background notes and images.
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With the addition of bass virtuoso Jaco Pastorius to their ranks in 1976, Weather Report cemented their standing as America's pre-eminent jazz-fusion band, playing sold-out international tours and generating impressive record sales. At the start of 1980 they recruited percussionist Bobby Thomas, Jr., and recorded this exhilarating live set for FM radio broadcast soon afterward at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. The complete broadcast is presented here in digitally remastered sound with background notes and images.
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Weather Report are widely regarded as America's finest ever jazz fusion band. Originally recorded for FM broadcast, this superb live set at The Agora in Columbus, Ohio, on October 17th, 1972, was taped a few months after the release of their classic 1972 album I Sing the Body Electric, and features Joe Zawinul (keyboards), Wayne Shorter (saxophone), Miroslav Vitous (bass), Eric Gravátt (drums), and Dom Um Romão (percussion). It's presented here in its entirety, with digitally remastered sound, background notes, and images.
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"Live in Japan, 1984. It goes without saying that Weather Report were one of the most influential jazz rock bands of the '70s and '80s. Formed by keyboard player Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, both participants in Miles Davis' groundbreaking Bitches Brew, this DVD comprises an exciting previously unreleased live performance, recorded 1984. Line up: Joe Zawinul: keyboards, Wayne Shorter: saxophones, Victor Bailey: bass, Mino Cinelu: percussion, and Omar Hakim: drums." Region 0; run time: 55 minutes.
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