Weather Report - Live at Montreux (1976)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | MPEG-2 Video, PAL 4:3 (720:576), 25fps, 9880kbps | LPCM 2.0; DD 5.1, 448kbps; DTS 5.1 768kbps | 84 min | 6300Mb
jazz | Eagle Vision EREDV629 | rel: 2007 | covers
Weather Report are captured live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976 in this made for Swiss TV video recording. Sound and image quality (full stereo, full colour) is exemplary.
Jaco Pastorius had been in the bass slot just a few months but harnessing his great potential had already led to the replacement of drummer Chester Thompson with Alex Acuna (who had been playing percussion) and the introduction of Manolo Badrena (joining in the vacant percussion slot). As Joe Zawinul recalled: "As great a drummer as Chester was, he and Jaco didn't flow. Jaco was more of an upbeat player - more driving…… We had Alex Acuna move over to the drums and then Badrena came in. All of a sudden we had some smokin' stuff again.