Weather Report - Forecast: Tomorrow
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Free Music Notes for Forecast: Tomorrow
Free Music Review: Excellent presentation and DVD
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an awesome musical overview of the greatest Jazz-Fusion groups. All the information is in there about each track that you want to know(ie. players, producers, albums, dates etc...). The sound quality is superb. This is a box-set for people who want to discover this band, not for the people that own everything Weather report has put out.
Now on to the DVD. Simply AMAZING. Great sound, great shots, great selection. I mean JOE WAZINUL, WAYNE SHORTER & JACO PASTORIOUS on the same stage together on your own television. What could be better. Musically I really don't have an answer for that one.
All in all, this is a well priced package of both stunning audio and video works of the greatest Jazz-fusion players of all time.
Free Music Review: Greatest Band of all time!
Hit: 5 Stars
A great introduction to the best of all the jazz fusion bands. All albums/CD's are classics. The DVD is outstanding quality.Free Music Review: nice box set
Hit: 4 Stars
I've got all their albums and CD's, but this box set is a very nice collection. The DVD is well worth it - I think the clarity is fine, and again there is no other live footage of this band available that I'll ever see (I saw this tour actually). Nice booklet; the 125th Congress remix is just a waste of space and does nothing - why was that crap necessary?
Sound is good throughout - could've boosted the bass a bit more in the mix.
And the cover is just silly. 4 stars tho.
Free Music Review: Another Shame by Sony/Colombia!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I am going to give WR 5 stars always.
But Dang, I mean how long will Sony/Colombia continue to release the same material. And the video, I mean almost every WR fan has the video & it is nothing like that 76 Montruex show. If they were going to do a Rockplast show they should have released the Belgrade 1980 show. That concert is the one in which they go cosmic (out of this world). For those who don't have the show, it's in circulation and it's poor quality but it ranks up their with the "IN Concert" Mahavishnu 73. At the end they play Badia/Boogie Woogie Waltz and Jaco, Joe and Wayne are phoenominal. I watch that show almost every month and I shake my head everytime in disbelief. You see most people don't realize it, but the 1980-1981 version of Weather Report was the best, and it's when Shorter came back with his free form playing. He's good on the 78 show but not great cause he's not improvising that much. The 1980 version of WR was like a free bebop fusion form of music. At the end of the show this guy is sitting in disbelief as the melody of "adios" is in the backgound. Jaco is playing like a god on this particular show, and Peter Erskine is holdin down the beat even though he is tired than a mother. I just wish Sony/Colombia would release the vaults and treat them with the same box set treatment as Miles Davis.
"The dwarf can see farther than the giant"
The dwarf being shorter and zawinul (Jazz Giants) begining weather report in 1971 (they were good but they came into their own in 1973).
But eventually they took music beyond what Miles (the Giant)did. And its a shame we Weather Report fans can't get what we want.
What we want is a box set(s) of all live material from 1973 to 1983. DvD shows that we don't already have from bootleging. But I guess I am on that "Dream Clock."
Free Music Review: Forcast: WARNING!
Hit: 2 Stars
With the greatest respect to the incredible Bob Beldon, Joe Zawinul, and Wayne Shorter, this Box Set should contain a warning.
The warning is simple: If you already own most of the stuff in this collection, don't bother. If you're completely new to Weather Report, buy it.
Coming from someone that's seen the band perform every year since 1972 and own all their official and quite a few "other" releases, I was really disappointed with this project (except for the booklet).
Here are a few things that are puzzling:
1) A Weather Report Box Set includes three songs (two composed by Zawinul and one by Shorter) that were never released by Weather Report:
a. In a Silent Way. released by Miles Davis
b. Super Nova, released by Wayne Shorter
c. Experience in E (Excerpt), released by Cannonball Adderly
(I agree with the liner notes that point to these songs as pre-cursors, but mentioning them would have been enough - they are all in print)
2) An incredible typo stating that Alphonse Mouzon was the drummer on "Unknown Soldier"
3) Including a barely improved version of Nubian Sundance that has been in circulation for many years from "other" sources.
4) Including another "better than, but not by much" version of the "other" sources for the 1978 Rockpalast concert on DVD.
5) Not remastering any of the original recordings. The tape hiss from the Live in Tokyo (I Sing the Body Electric) songs is still clearly heard and not upgrading those old recordings is just plain unacceptable in this day and age.
6) Finally, the cover itself - I have no words, except to admit "I don't get it".
Having said all that negative stuff - Weather Report remains the dominant "creative machine" of the Jazz Rock Fusion era and those that missed it should buy this without hesitating. If you're a long time Weather Report fan - there's absolutely nothing to get excited about here. The DVD was especially disappointing to me. I have had that concert on VHS tape for many years and now on DVD (all from "other" sources) and was shocked to see such incredible video noise on the official version. Zawinul's black and white keys look like polka-dots in many places. (I played the DVD in 5 different players; two TV's and my computer monitor to make sure it wasn't my equipment). I should have paid attention to the PR person at Sony that told me the concert was taken from a re-broadcast of the show and NOT from the master tapes. It's my own fault for having unrealistic expectations. I should probably clarify that while the DVD is in fact clearly better than the "un-offical" version, IT STILL LOOKS LIKE A BOOTLEG! Sad...
It is of some significance that this "review" is the first time I've chosen to speak out about something in Fusion that was less than flattering. It should also be noted that my disappointment is aimed directly at CBS/Sony/BMG and not the musicians/producers.
I'm still amazed that this record company can see fit to release this and hold back the already remastered Mahavishnu Orchestra Live in Cleveland Cd that was supposed to be released in 2004.
Lastly, let me make it perfectly clear that Zawinul, Shorter, and Beldon are musicians and people I personally hold in the highest esteem with Zawinul and Shorter being musical divinities as far as I'm concerned. While my review is an obvious personal venting, and I realize that Zawinul and Shorter gave this project their stamp of approval, I think that shouldn't be mistaken for a personal attack. My remarks are simply observations with some attitude directed at CBS/Sony/BMG.
By Rick Calic
Jazz Rock World