Description
Weather Report – Live & Unreleased / Columbia 2x Audio CD 2002 / 508058 2
UPC 5099750805824
| Label: | Columbia – 508058 2 |
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| Format: |
2 x CD, Compilation
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2002 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Style: | Jazz-Rock, Fusion |
Throughout their 15-year history during the 1970s and much of the '80s, Weather Report was in the vanguard
of those who electrified improvisational music. The group, usually a quintet, was founded in 1971 by
keyboardist Joe Zawinul (b. 1932) and multi-saxophonist Wayne Shorter (b. 1933), both of whom were
thoroughly arresting soloists and among the most forward-looking and distinctive composers of the
post-modern era. Weather Report was also among the most exciting and widely-appealing attractions on the live
music circuit, playing to packed clubs, theaters, rock-era ballrooms, and headlining at open-air festivals. This
two-disc set, comprised entirely of previously unreleased live performances, was recorded in the U.S. and
London between 1975 and 1983, with Zawinul and Shorter at the helm of five different editions of the band.
Weather Report often changed rhythm sections, but only used the very best young players, including the late,
profoundly innovative electric bassist and composer Jaco Pastorius, fellow bassists Alphonso Johnson and Victor
Bailey, drummers Chester Thompson, Omar Hakim, Peter Erskine, and Alex Acufia, and percussionists
Manolo Badrena, Jose Rossy, and Acuña. Included are many of the band's signature originals - including
Shorter's "Elegant People" and "Port Of Entry," Pastorius' rocking "Teen Town" and the solo bass vehicle
"Portrait Of Tracy," and Zawinul's "Black Market," "Night Passage," and mini-medleys of "Directions" and
"Dr. Honoris Causa" and "In A Silent Way" (a touchstone of fusion, best known from having been recorded by
Miles Davis) and "Waterfall." Though it's been years since they disbanded, Weather Report still calls for
advancing electrical charges, dramatically expanded harmonic developments, a mix of rhythmic heat moving in
from Africa and South America, and continued outbreaks of brilliant interplay between soloists and ensemble.
ORIGINAL RECORDINGS PRODUCED BY JOSEF ZAWINUL AND WAYNE SHORTER
Tracklist:
| 1-1 |
Freezing Fire |
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8:13
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| 1-2 | Plaza Real |
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7:04
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| 1-3 | Fast City |
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6:49
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| 1-4 | Portrait Of Tracy |
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5:57
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| 1-5 | Elegant People |
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4:28
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| 1-6 | Cucumber Slumber |
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11:39
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| 1-7 | Teen Town |
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6:30
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| 1-8 | Man In The Green Shirt |
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10:31
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| 2-1 | Black Market |
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9:26
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| 2-2 | Where The Moon Goes |
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12:05
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| 2-3 | River People |
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6:57
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| 2-4 | Two Lines |
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8:15
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| 2-5 | Cigano |
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3:59
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| 2-6 | In A Silent Way / Waterfall |
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5:46
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| 2-7 | Night Passage |
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5:53
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| 2-8 | Port Of Entry |
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8:08
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| 2-9 | Rumba Mama |
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1:15
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| 2-10 | Directions / Dr. Honoris Causa |
| 8:38 |
- Art Direction – Howard Fritzson
- Art Direction, Design – Fabiola Cáceres
- Bass – Alphonso Johnson (tracks: 1-1, 1-6, 1-8, 2-5, 2-10), Jaco Pastorius (tracks: 1-3 to 1-5, 1-7, 2-1, 2-3, 2-6 to 2-8), Victor Bailey (tracks: 1-2, 2-2, 2-4)
- Drums – Chester Thompson (tracks: 1-1, 1-6, 1-8, 2-5, 2-10), Omar Hakim (tracks: 1-2, 2-2, 2-4), Peter Erskine (tracks: 1-3, 2-3, 2-6 to 2-8)
- Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer, Vocals – Josef Zawinul* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 1-5 to 1-8, 2-1 to 2-8, 2-10)
- Illustration – Leigh Wells
- Liner Notes – Alan Leeds
- Mastered By – Mark Wilder, Seth Foster
- Mixed By [Assistant Engineer] – Tatsi Anthony
- Mixed By [Sony Music Studios / Avatar Studios] – Jim Anderson (tracks: 1-1, 1-4, 1-5, 1-7, 1-8, 2-5 to 2-10)
- Mixed By [The Music Room] – Ivan Zawinul (tracks: 1-2, 1-3, 1-6, 2-1 to 2-4, 2-6 to 2-9)
- Percussion – Jose Rossy (tracks: 1-2, 2-2, 2-4), Manolo Badrena (tracks: 1-5, 1-7, 2-1, 2-9), Robert Thomas, Jr. (tracks: 1-3, 2-7, 2-8)
- Percussion, Drums – Alejandro "Alex" Acuña (tracks: 1-1, 1-5 to 1-8, 2-1, 2-5, 2-9, 2-10)
- Photography By – Ed Caraeff, Sony Music Archives
- Producer [Original Recordings] – Wayne Shorter
- Producer [Original Recordings], Reissue Producer – Josef Zawinul
- Product Manager [Packaging Manager] – Mark Unterberger
- Project Manager [Project Director] – Seth Rothstein
- Reissue Producer – Bob Belden, Ivan Zawinul
- Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Wayne Shorter (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 1-5 to 1-8, 2-1 to 2-8, 2-10)
