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The press information that Prog received simply states: "The exact details around the gig seem to be lost in the mist of time, though it was at some point in the 80s!" Weather Report only payed four London dates in the 80s - at Hammersmith Odeon on November 14, 1980, when Jaco Pastorius was still in the band, two more Hammersmith Odeon shows in June 1983 and one final time at the Dominion in 1984. The Live In London CD features a line-up of Joe Zawinul (keyboards), Wayne Shorter (sax), Omar Hakim (drums), Victor Bailey (bass) and Jose Rossy (percussion) places this between 1982 and 1984, so that narrows things down to the final three shows. The set comes from a radio broadcast, and looking at the band's setlists over at the time, it seems that the Dominion show is the most likely.

2007 five CD set, a great installment in Sony/BMG's Original Album Classics series that brings together rare and out of print titles with some best sellers from the Sony/BMG Jazz catalog. Many of these albums have been unavailable on CD for some time and are sought after by collectors. Each set is presented in a high quality, rigid cardboard slipcase containing five 'vinyl replica' mini LP sleeves. This collection from the Jazz fusion greats features the albums I Sing the Body Electric, Sweetnighter, Mysterious Traveller, Black Market and Night Passage.

Weather Report - Live In Offenbach 1978 (2011) {2CD+DVD9 NTSC RockPalast}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 778 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 306 Mb
DVD9 -> 7.61 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 4:3 | LPCM, 2 ch | ~ 138 min | ISO Image
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© 1978, 2011 Art of Groove / Rockpalast / WDR | MIG 80092 2CD DVD
Jazz / Fusion

Weather Report must have been one of the most important Jazz-Rock groups from the 1970s, founded by his two major instrumentalists Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter 40 years ago. Late 1970s Weather Report was at the very height of its success and featured, except Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, guitar legend Jaco Pastorius and drummer Peter Erskine. In September - October 1978 they toured along Europe and were scheduled for a dozen concerts; the live concert at the Stadthalle in Offenbach was recorded and is now available on a 2cd album and a DVD, which offers this complete concert. A must-have for all Weather Report fans. Keep Swinging loves to point you to this kind of historical concerts.

"Weather Report" was the last album for the Pastorius-Erskine rhythm section. Recorded at the Power Plant in New York in the summer of 1981, most of the music had been played during the band's spring tour, capped by a triumphant performance at the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles in June. "It was a late afternoon set, and we tore the place apart," Peter Erskine recalled. "The band just came out and killed."

"Weather Report" was the last album for the Pastorius-Erskine rhythm section. Recorded at the Power Plant in New York in the summer of 1981, most of the music had been played during the band's spring tour, capped by a triumphant performance at the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles in June. "It was a late afternoon set, and we tore the place apart," Peter Erskine recalled. "The band just came out and killed."

Weather Report - Weather Report (1971) {2014 Japan Jazz Collection 1000 Columbia-RCA Series SICP 4226}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 261 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 93 Mb
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© 1971, 2014 Columbia / Sony Music Japan | SICP 4226
Jazz / Fusion

Reissue with DSD remastering. Comes with liner notes. Here we have the free-floating, abstract beginnings of Weather Report, which would define the state of the electronic jazz/rock art from its first note almost to its last. Their first album is a direct extension of the Miles Davis In a Silent Way/Bitches Brew period, more fluid in sound and more volatile in interplay. Joe Zawinul ruminates in a delicate, liquid manner on Rhodes electric piano; at this early stage, he used a ring modulator to create weird synthesizer-like effects.

Heavy Weather is the eighth album by Weather Report, released in 1977 through Columbia Records. The release originally sold about a half million copies which would prove to be the band's most commercially successful album. Some consider it to be Weather Report's best album artistically as well. Heavy Weather received an initial 5 star review from Down Beat magazine and went on to easily win jazz album of the year by the readers of that publication. It is the band's second album with bassist Jaco Pastorius. On Black Market, Pastorius played on two of the seven tracks, but here he is a full member of the band.

"Weather Report" was the last album for the Pastorius-Erskine rhythm section. Recorded at the Power Plant in New York in the summer of 1981, most of the music had been played during the band's spring tour, capped by a triumphant performance at the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles in June. "It was a late afternoon set, and we tore the place apart," Peter Erskine recalled. "The band just came out and killed.