Love Jaco here, before the tricks and the ego and the illness took over. Working as a brilliant member of a brilliant band and playing to support the music the way a great bass player should. Best WR lineup? Maybe, but Johnson/Thompson/Acuna kicked ass. Or just Jaco & Erskine - awesome. Dunno - they were all great.
Hey people, there were two songs back in 1978 that introduced me to JAZZ and I am still in love with this music: Gibraltar and Kowloon Jag by Larry Corryell. I heard those two pieces again and again till I started buying all those LP's (yes in Vinyl then). I also love Alphonos Johnson's bassplaying on the studio version of this masterpiece ...
@redmonicus You insane? That's Alex Acuna, and he and Manolo Badrena are arguably the best rhythm section Weather Report has ever had! Just check out their compatibility in their solo part in Montreux, which was later cut and made into the album version of Rumba Mama (from Black Market or Heavy Weather, can't remember at the moment). HA! Fool...?
@digimaton I will have the tendency to agree on this comment...Wayne is one of the rare greatest musicians who is perfect in every thing, besides, the harmony,melody and his own musical statement/ phraces. he has perfect rhythm. I don't understand how some percussionist can play the cymbals when the drummer is also playing the cymbals...maybe that is one of the reasons...read this with a grain of salt. !!!Cappicce!!!!--aa..
the look of exasperation in Shorter's face is priceless.........proof of the sheer difficulty it is to play this song on the sax.....they messed up the ending too.
Ha!! dig how Jaco is quoting the line from River People!! But of course, this was well b4 Mr. gone.. correct?? I believe this was the " Heavy Weather" line up, if I'm not mistaken. And yes, Acuna was really good here.. but I think you could say the same for Peter Erskine. Jaco is just TOO much here!! YOW!!
@langerzoriginal that's just Wayne, he's in the zone when he plays, other than that I think there may have been an issue with the stage sound, I think he winces a bit at one point when the drums/percussion volume intensifies, it seems to be drowning him out, the monitors may not have been cutting through, so he had to struggle to hear the keys perhaps, who knows?
Wayne's sound on soprano sax is one of a kind,for me him with Garbarek are the best on that.I can't stand that most soprano saxophonists are pop instrumentalists,it's disrespect to the instruments quallities.Well,maybe i go to far,but it is what it is..:-)
Man they are playing thru this as though the world is about to go up. Very near rushing but...not. River People was a nice touch to this on Jaco's behalf.
ESSE SOM É VERDADEIRA VIAGEM. SOLOS E BALANÇOS IMAGINAVEL, UMA SINCRONIA E UMA BELEZA ÚNICA. O SOM TORNA - SE PESADO COM A PERCUSSÃO E TORNA LEVE IGUAL O GÁS HELIO COM OS SOLOS DE JOE. MUITO PHÔDA.
trop la folie à la fin de la vid !!! Acuna fais signe à Jaco de lancer le riff de fin mais il veut pas il est trop lancé .Wayne shorter fait un dernier riff mais personne s arrete à par lui ! Hey Digimaton super cette video (dommage que tu n ai pas laissé jusqu à la fin )qu est ce que donnerai pour retourner dans le passé et voir ce concert !!!
This is the song you need if you got ten minutes to get out of the door. Two cups of coffee....a shower....find wallet and keys from yesterday..feed the fish....throw the cat out (and I do mean throw) the door. Make sure there is no drug paraphanelia visiable before closing the door (just in case !!!) and and bread and peanut butter in a bag with a knife for my lunch!!! 9:57 out the door.
@langerzoriginal I've seen Wayne many times and he has a somewhat...aloof stage presence. He's a mysterious guy. Very cerebral. Never know what you're gonna get with him. But love him!!!!
Yes, yes! Ole Josef likes to do that. Check out the beginning of "Teen Town" from the Offenbach concert. It's truley amazing and Jaco is pretty happy about how it turned out:)
This is cool, but the cameraman doesn't seem to have any idea who is playing at any particular time. So we focus on the drums when the keyboard is soloing, and so on. Or on the keyboardist's face, not his hands. It's a shame.
Yeah but it's a bit like buying some fine clothes but never wearing them or so know what I mean? These are all great musicians able to play for a long time whitout being boring, now live and unreleashed is the best for me especially the line up with Chester Thompson and Alphonso Johnson Those are chalenging musical stuff and long instrumental jams at the same time when i listen to freezing fire I don't get the feeling of something is missing
@langerzoriginal They're all sweating profusely in this show, like it's 100 degrees in there. Wayne repeatedly wipes off his brow with his hand and then shakes off the sweat, I think he was very uncomfortable (but didn't sound like it!)
But if they would leghten the jam part it would still be the same great song, there are some WR song that I don't like like birdland i don't know why but the melody of Gibraltar is simply great a bit like in a way of goodbye porkpie hat simple but maaaan I wish I could find out great lines like that (ofcourse Thelonious Monk is the best in writing my opinion)
I reckon if you create like them, the concentration precludes smiling!? Did you know Wayne lost his wife in a plane crash? I don't remember the date. All the best, jfj
