The quaternary disc inwards the parcel is a 2-hour DVD of a concert inwards Offenbach am Main, on September 29, 1978 for the High German TV plan Rockpalast. The boxed laid includes a 100-page mass alongside notes on the laid yesteryear compiler Bob Belden, a long essay on the band yesteryear Hal Miller, as well as a reminiscence of the 1978 concert yesteryear drummer Peter Erskine.
Led yesteryear Miles Davis alumni Joe Zawinul as well as Wayne Shorter, Weather Report incorporated elements of electronic, stone as well as basis music into jazz motifs. This 3-CD laid covers their entire 15-year (1970-1985) career alongside 37 tracks, highlighted yesteryear favorites similar In a Silent Way; Super Nova; Milky Way; Birdland; Havona; Eurydice (Full Version) as well as more, summation unreleased tracks. And the DVD offers ii sum hours of alive Weather Report inwards their prime, performing alongside Jaco Pastorius on bass as well as Peter Erskine on drums. The forecast is very, real good!
From 1970 to 1985, the jazz-fusion ensemble known every bit Weather Report reigned supreme every bit i the nigh distinguished as well as indefinable ensembles of the 20th century, as well as saxophonist Wayne Shorter as well as keyboardist Joe Zawinul were the cofounders of this ever-changing group. This superb, three-CD, 37-track collection features the band's incredible cast of musicians: drummers Peter Erksine as well as Alphonse Mouzon; percussionists Airto Moreira, Alex Acuna, as well as the slowly Don Alias; bassists Miroslav Vitous, Alphonso Johnson, as well as the incredible Jaco Pastorius. The roots of their audio are heard inwards Zawinul's "In Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Silent Way," as well as their greatest hits--from "A Remark You Made" as well as an unreleased version of "Nubian Sundance" to their 1976 mega-hit, "Birdland," are included here, along alongside the lesser known classic, "Indiscretions," a DJ Logic, hip-hop remix of "125th Street Congress," as well as a sizzling, two-hour DVD concert from FRG inwards filmed inwards 1978. This laid is a powerful primer to their "folk music of the future."
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We’ve seen Weather Report best-of discs before, non to yell the remarkable Live as well as Unreleased of 2002. But Forecast: Tomorrow is the group’s maiden of all box set, as well as likely the in conclusion give-and-take on Weather Report compilations. Coproduced yesteryear founding members Joe Zawinul as well as Wayne Shorter as well as famed producer Bob Belden, the box is part chronology as well as part historiography, highlighting the band’s aesthetic origins yesteryear including a rail apiece from Miles Davis’ In a Silent Way, Shorter’s Super Nova as well as Cannonball Adderley’s Domination. (Zawinul as well as Belden explored the Adderley connection inwards depth via their 2004 Capitol Jazz collection Cannonball Plays Zawinul.)
From this artistic soil, Zawinul, Shorter, bassist Miroslav Vitous, percussionist Airto Moreira as well as others grew an enduring trunk of work, examples of which create sum the residue of disc one. Devotees volition non desire to immature adult woman the unedited, 11-minute version of Shorter’s “Eurydice” (with 5 minutes of rubato introduction) as well as a long-lost studio accept of Zawinul’s “Directions.”
Disc two, spanning the mid-to-late ’70s, documents the band’s Alphonso Johnson as well as Jaco Pastorius eras. All tracks are previously released except the first—a 13-minute alive version of “Mysterious Traveller,” recorded right away from the soundboard inwards Chicago inwards 1974. Disc 3 focuses on 1980–’85, from the terminate of Jaco’s reign to the band’s in conclusion incarnation alongside bassist Victor Bailey as well as drummer Omar Hakim. The parting shot is DJ Logic’s remix of “125th Street Congress,” which, oddly enough, is non every bit au courant every bit the 1973 original.
The tracks on all 3 discs are well-chosen as well as representative. But the bonus DVD, which captures the band alive inwards 1978, inwards Offenbach, Germany, is argue plenty to larn this box. As a lean-and-mean four-piece alongside Zawinul, Shorter, Jaco as well as a 24-year-old Peter Erskine, Weather Report was a sight to behold. Erskine, inwards newly penned liner notes, sets the scene as well as recalls his fourth dimension (paraphrasing Zawinul) alongside “the band that never soloed as well as ever soloed.”
Jaco, of course, rules the stage. By concert’s end, he as well as Erskine are shirtless (and Erskine has plenty trunk pilus for the both of them). But behind the rock-star antics lies a bedrock creative integrity—yes, fifty-fifty on pieces similar “Mr. Gone” as well as “River People,” unjustly denounced inwards their twenty-four hr menstruation every bit popular sellouts. In the end, it is Zawinul’s strange harmonic personality as well as sonic reach that larn out the nigh lasting impression. The band members tin hardly contain their joy every bit they accept their bows—except for Zawinul, who seems higher upwards the fray, revealing non a hint of a smile.
Disc two, spanning the mid-to-late ’70s, documents the band’s Alphonso Johnson as well as Jaco Pastorius eras. All tracks are previously released except the first—a 13-minute alive version of “Mysterious Traveller,” recorded right away from the soundboard inwards Chicago inwards 1974. Disc 3 focuses on 1980–’85, from the terminate of Jaco’s reign to the band’s in conclusion incarnation alongside bassist Victor Bailey as well as drummer Omar Hakim. The parting shot is DJ Logic’s remix of “125th Street Congress,” which, oddly enough, is non every bit au courant every bit the 1973 original.
The tracks on all 3 discs are well-chosen as well as representative. But the bonus DVD, which captures the band alive inwards 1978, inwards Offenbach, Germany, is argue plenty to larn this box. As a lean-and-mean four-piece alongside Zawinul, Shorter, Jaco as well as a 24-year-old Peter Erskine, Weather Report was a sight to behold. Erskine, inwards newly penned liner notes, sets the scene as well as recalls his fourth dimension (paraphrasing Zawinul) alongside “the band that never soloed as well as ever soloed.”
Jaco, of course, rules the stage. By concert’s end, he as well as Erskine are shirtless (and Erskine has plenty trunk pilus for the both of them). But behind the rock-star antics lies a bedrock creative integrity—yes, fifty-fifty on pieces similar “Mr. Gone” as well as “River People,” unjustly denounced inwards their twenty-four hr menstruation every bit popular sellouts. In the end, it is Zawinul’s strange harmonic personality as well as sonic reach that larn out the nigh lasting impression. The band members tin hardly contain their joy every bit they accept their bows—except for Zawinul, who seems higher upwards the fray, revealing non a hint of a smile.
Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. In Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Silent Way
2. Super Nova
3. Experience In due east Major (Excerpt)
4. Milky Way
5. Tears
6. Eurydice (Full Version)
7. Orange Lady
8. Unknown Soldier
9. Directions
10. Surucucu
11. Second Dominicus In August
12. 125th Street Congress
Personnel: Joe Zawinul: organ, electrical piano, prepared acoustic piano; Wayne Shorter: tenor as well as soprano saxophones; Miles Davis: trumpet (1); John McLaughlin: guitar (1, 2); Herbie Hancock: electrical pianoforte (1); Chick Corea: electrical pianoforte (1), drums (2); Dave Holland: bass (1); Tony Williams: drums (1); Sonny Sharrock: guitar (2); Miroslav Vitous: bass (all tracks except 3); Jack DeJohnette: drums (2); Airto Moreira: percussion (2, 5-8); Nat Adderley: cornet (3); Cannonball Adderley: alto saxophone (3); Walter Booker: bass (3); Roy McCurdy: drums (3); orchestra (3); Alphonse Mouzon: drums (5, 6, 7, 8); Wilmer Wise: piccolo trumpet (8); Hubert Laws: flute (8); Andrew White III: English linguistic communication horn (8), electrical bass (12); Yolande Bavan: vocals (8); Joshie Armstrong: vocals (8); Chapman Roberts: vocals (8); Roger Powell: consultant (8); Eric Gravatt: drums (9-12); Dom Um Romao: percussion (9-11), pandeira, cuica, tamanco, chucalho, gong, tambourine, cowbell (12); Herschell Dwellingham: drums (12); Marungo: Israeli offend drum (12).
Disc: 2
1. Nubian Sundance (Live)
2. Blackthorn Rose
3. Badia
4. Cannon Ball
5. Black Market
6. Three Clowns
7. Havona
8. Birdland
9. Palladium
10. The Pursuit Of The Woman With The Feathered Hat
11. The Orphan
12. Sightseeing
Personnel: Joe Zawinul: electrical piano, synthesizers, oud, melodica, mzuthra, vocal, westward africk, xylophone, acoustic piano, orchestration, ARP 2600, Yamaha grand piano, Oberheim polyphonic synthesizer, keyboards, kalimba, thumbeki drums, sleigh bells; Wayne Shorter: tenor as well as soprano saxophones, vocals; Alphonso Johnson: electrical bass (1, 3, 5, 6); Darryl Brown: drums (1); Dom Um Romao: percussion (1); Alyrio Lima: percussion (3); Ndugu: drums (3); Jaco Pastorius: electrical bass, mandocello, vocals, steel drums, drums (4, 7-10, 12); Narada Michael Walden: drums (4, 5); Don Alias: percussion (5); Alex Acuna: percussion (5, 6), drums (7-9); Chester Thompson: drums (6); Manolo Badrena: tambourine (8), congas, percussion (9), solo voice, vocals (10); Peter Erskine: drums, vocals (10, 12); Jon Lucien: vocals (10); West Los Angeles Christian Academy Children's Choir: vocals (11).
Disc: 3
1. Dream Clock
2. Three Views Of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Secret
3. Port Of Entry (Live)
4. Dara Factor Two
5. Procession
6. Plaza Real
7. The Well
8. D-Flat Waltz
9. Domino Theory
10. Predator
11. Face On The Barroom Floor
12. Indiscretions
13. 125th Street Congress (DJ Logic Remix)
Personnel: Joe Zawinul: keyboards, percussion, vocoder, vocals, orchestrations, electrical piano); Wayne Shorter: tenor as well as soprano saxophones; Jaco Pastorius: electrical bass, percussion, vocalisation (1-4); Peter Erskine: drums, drum computer, claves (1-4); Robert Thomas Jr.: percussion, mitt drums, tambourine (1-4); Victor Bailey: electrical bass, vocals (5-12); Omar Hakim: drums, vocals (5-12); Jose Rossy: percussion, vocals (5-10); Mino Cinelu: percussion (12); Miroslav Vitous: acoustic bass (13); Andrew White III: electrical bass (13); Eric Gravatt: drums (13); Herschell Dwellingham: drums (13); Marungo: Israeli offend drum (13); Dom Um Romao: pandeira, cuica, tamanco, chucalho, gong, tambourine, cowbell (13); Carlos (Omega) Caberini: song (13).
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