I saw this formation of this group at this time of their first release. In opinions this group was ahead of its time,but right on time.Eric Gravatt was a phenomenal drummer. In my opinion the best.One of my all time favorite jazz fusion groups.
@@madisondeans5566 I believe he took a job as a Corrections Officer. Wanted to provide better for his family. I read that somewhere , forget where. May have been here: www.weatherreportdiscography.org
dont agree...I definetely prefer Peter Erskine and Chester Thompson on the drums...morover they reached in my humble opinion more creativity in Heavy Weather with Alex Acuña...but all of WR is great and top notch..it is just personal taste abd the best musicians worked with Zawinul and Wayne.
Hvilken FANTASTISK genoplevelse. Jeg hørte selv WR første gang da de spillede live i Montmartre i København netop i sensommeren 1972. Shall NEVER forget!
Saw this group June of '72 in Boston. The first "group". Way before Jaco and Alphonse. Eric Gravatt was amazing !! I'm so glad to be able relive the night of my 22nd birthday. Thanks for posting !!!
Yeah. Couldn't agree more. The European avant-garde side of things still intact, fusing with American Jazz (Miles "Bitches Brew" hotbed seeds sptouting) and "World Music". Genuinely a Fusion. 🌪🌌🎯👌
1972-08-04 or 05 Weather Report @ Molde Jazz Festival, Molde Kino, Molde, Norway [Pro video] 01 Vertical Invader (Josef Zawinul) 0:00:00 02 Untitled original # 1 0:04:42 03 Percussion intro 0:08:12 04 Orange Lady (Josef Zawinul) 0:09:42 05 Directions (Josef Zawinul) 0:12:49 06 Early Minor (Josef Zawinul) 0:17:40 07 Dr. Honoris Causa (Josef Zawinul) 0:21:07 08 Drum solo 0:25:44 09 Untitled improvisation 0:28:14 10 Piano & percussion duet / Piano solo 0:30:40 11 It’s About That Time (Miles Davis) 0:32:34 ● Josef Zawinul - grand piano, Rhodes electric piano, effects ● Wayne Shorter - soprano & tenor saxophones ● Miroslav Vitouš - acoustic & electric bass ● Eric Gravatt - drums ● Dom Um Romão - percussion, berimbau First public TV broadcast held on 24 September 1972. on Norwegian public broadcast station NRK. Loc: www.loc.gov/item/jots.200020917 MoldeJazz: web.archive.org/web/20150223111721/www.moldejazz.no/hoved/historie/list_musikere.php3 Setlist: www.setlist.fm/setlist/weather-report/1972/molde-kino-molde-norway-33849cc5.html Weather Report (1970-1986): Live Concerts: ru-vid.com/group/PLoRNXsrOuZ-UDgD5qC7b8VWM08eJPdRpH
Eu assisti esse concerto no Rio ,no teatro Municipal e fiquei chapado🎷🎷🎶🎶👏👏👏👏 Ma 🎶Mauro Senise. 100 anos a frente. Viva Weather Report forever!!!!!! 🩵🩵🍷🍷🍺🍺🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🎶🎶
I saw this lineup summer of that year outdoors on the Boston Common. They were the headliners. Opening acts were violinist Michael White’s group and Maynard Ferguson’s big band.
What incredible musicians and fantastic compositions..........Thank you so much for posting this! "Orange Lady" made me cry........which I actually needed to do........
This was the line up on "Sweetnighter", my 1st WP album, an old classmate intro'd me to WP, Billy Cobham, and Herbie Hancock; a most memorable summer it was 1973.
Amazing group- “ We always solo, yet we never solo”. Great concert and camera work, recording. Of course it’s in Europe, where they appreciated this. Wouldn’t see this in the US. I always found Zawinul an enigma- playing improvised jazz, yet an Austrian- Germanic background. I guess the German Expressionist and Abstract painters were similar.
Went to see this band in Feburary of 1973 at a Club but it was over sold and could not get in. Had to wait for an out door Jazz Festival four months later, but Miroslav Vitous had problems that night with amplified acoustic double bass...great bassist, bad night. Thanks for posting the best of Weather Report!
The only Weather Report CD I own is "Weather Report Live In Tokyo" which is represented by this incredible line up! This is, hands down, the best of all the Weather Report line ups!
My three favourite WR albums are: I Sing the Body Electric, Sweetnighter and Mysterious Traveler. This video is almost like watching the album, Live in Tokyo.
This shows Zawinul playing much as he did with Miles just a few years earlier on Bitches Brew etc. His style evolved quite a lot later when you hear him on records like Heavy Weather. Interesting to hear.
Thanks for posting this great performance! I saw this exact band about a month earlier (July 1972) while visiting a friend in NYC. It was part of the Newport Jazz Festival, which had been moved to New York for a few years starting in 72. It was a triple bill that night: first up was the great Roy Haynes Hip Ensemble featuring Marvin Hannibal Peterson on trumpet and George Adams on tenor sax; next came Tony Williams (I'm not sure who was in his band except for a vocalist named Tequila); Weather Report headlined with a very similar set to this....a mind blowing evening of cutting edge jazz and fusion.
...heard this band at the Walker in Minneapolis when I was a junior in high school; came up from Mankato, MN to hear them. Let's say they made a very, very strong impression on this townie...
2 anni prima il 15 luglio del 1976 al PalaEur di Roma suonarono loro e dopo Billy Cobham & George Duke band wow che serata e dopo il 16 via di corsa a Bologna per rivederli ancora, nel 1978 li ho visti ad Offenbach in Germania, tu dove li hai visti nel 78 ?
I big fan since it's inception,the first album was the very beginning..the 2nd was a nod to what was to become of the band.I saw this line up in 1971-2 in a small nite club in San Francisco my first jazz concert. They delivered brilliant at improvisational. Had seen many concerts in different configurations after.They left a strong impression on me forever more.
this is so raw,amazing musicianship from greyhounds straight out of the traps & after the hare on track one,managed to cross the finish line together. vitous is doing some adventurous stuff.saw joe & w/r at oxford university in 76, changed my direction in music for sure.
Having been out of the music scene for years if not decades, kept Gravatt from establishing his name as he would have deserved. But those who know, know. Saw him live with McCoy Tyner in more recent years, after his comeback. Still great.
Thanks for posting a great show... agree that the songs are listed incorrectly -Orange Lady starts @ --9:42-- and starting around 33 minutes to the end is It's about Time/In a Silent Way- how exciting to hear Joe play this on the Rhodes only, Miroslav is so dammed funky on the upright bass and Eric Gravatt.... man did he drive this entire set..... Gravatt was the drummer through my favorite period - right after the funky Alphonse Mouzon- on the Tokyo Live shows ( I Sing the Body Electric) thru Sweetnighter & Mysterious Traveler..... seeing this "live" really shows how intense and magical these guys were ....
Gold! I got to see them just before this, I guess -- since the set was similar but they still had Alphonse Mouzon on drums and (I think) Airto on percussion. The freedom, and the virtuosity of all in the group, got established already in these days, with Miroslav on the bass fiddle and Joe content with all Rhodes piano (for the while)!
Wonderful-what a shame the original band did not stay the same for very long. A lot of fine musicians came and went but for me this lineup was the most creative and original. I only got to see WR on one occasion but by then only Wayne and Joe remained of the original band. Thank you for this fine upload-happy memories.
1) Vertical Invader (00:00) 2) Untitled Original # 1 (04:42) 3) Percussion Solo (08:12) 4) Orange Lady (09:42) 5) Directions (12:49) 6) Early Minor (17:40) 7) Dr. Honoris Causa (21:07) 8) Drum Solo (25:44) 9) Untitled improvisation (28:14) 10) Piano/Percussion Duet - Piano Solo (30:40) 11) It’s About That Time (32:34) Great performance, the same as “Reelin’ In The Years”, dated September 25, 1972 and the DVD called Weather Report / Morning Lake by Laser Media
You are indeed. Check out Miles Davis Bitches Brew next, Shorter and Zawinul are all over that. Then Live Evil, or Miles' set at the Isle of Wight. Then look for Crossings by Herbie Hancock, and then...well, it just keeps going and going!
Early in “Untitled Improvisation” Joe plays a concentrated and frantic rendition of his composition “His Last Journey” (original version on the Atlantic lp titled “Zawinul”)
This is the first time I have seen a Weather Report video with double bass. Miroslav Vitous is a great bass player but I thought he only played Electric bass when with Weather Report. I was wrong.
This band featured Eric Gravatt on drums here in 1972 . Alphonse Mouzon (at first) and later Peter Erskine and Omar Hakim. But my favorite drummer was Alex Acuna......
Chester Thompson was also cool drummer, I like what he is doing on Black Market album...and Erskin's favorite drummer Jaco(Peter's words), who is playing drums on epic Teen Town.
@@ZvonimirBucevicBuc Don't, whatever you do, spend aeons on a quest like I did to find a cover version of Teen Town with anywhere near the feel that Pastorius got on the drums. It can't be done. Also, Leon Chancler was brilliant on Tale Spinnin'.
@@ZvonimirBucevicBuc Yes! I forgot about Teen Town and that tune was on the same album that Alex Acuna played. Chester Thompson was brilliant with Frank Zappa's band...a very good drummer indeed. I guess there's no one that's better than the other, just personal preference. The ballad "A Remark you Made" is one of the best songs ever recorded! I just like the entire Heavy Weather album.
It took me a while to warm up to Omar Hakim. I agree, Acuna was my favorite drummer; but that is also a matter of liking the material WR was playing during his tenure a lot more. Erskine was probably my least favorite; but I'm not demeaning him in the least.
No disrespect at all meant by this... Early Weather Report was made up of graduates of Miles Davis. Even Freddy Hubbard was on the first record, right?
