Phil W Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Live at Montreux with Jaco, Alex Acuna et al. :grin: It never rains but it pours! http://www.zawinulonline.org/2007/03/13/weather-report-live-at-montreux-1976/ http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 FINALLY! I am so buying that. I may even pre-order it on Amazon. I've seen clips from that show and the band is just on fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MvW Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 SO going to own a copy of that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Sweet Willie_ Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Oh. My. spreadluv Fanboy? Why, yes! Nordstrand Pickups and Guitars. Messiaen knew how to parlay the funk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 Very reasonable on Amazon UK right now too £9.74!!!. DVDs have besome so much cheaper! Phew! I might even be able to talk my wife into letting me spend that. I'm sure it's even cheaper in the US. link http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky McDougall Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 What is the correct pronunciation of "Zawinul"? I am a WR fan but not sure of how he pronounced his name.Thanks\Rocky "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb, voting on what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb, contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 ZAHV-ee-nuhl http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basshappi Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Oh yeah! On the list baby! Nothing is as it seems but everything is exactly what it is - B. Banzai Life is what happens while you are busy playing in bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wally Malone Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Really enjoyed Forcast Tomorrow, looks like this is on my list as well. Wally I have basses to play, places to be and good music to make! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted May 6, 2007 Author Share Posted May 6, 2007 Anyone get it yet? My wife has vetoed my music purchases for a while ! Santana live at Montreux 2004 DVD featuring Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ravi Coltrane, and Idrissa Diop guesting has also now been released. http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theTragicRich Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 heading to amazon right now... *drools* [Carvin] XB76WF - All Walnut 6-string fretless [schecter] Stiletto Studio 5 Fretless | Stiletto Elite 5 [Ampeg] SVT3-Pro | SVT-410HLF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Argh. I wish I would have remembered this when I made an order on Amazon a few days ago. Or while I was at a local music shop earlier last week. I'll be making another trip to said music shop tomorrow to score this sucker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Bought this today. Couldn't wait to get home so I stuck it in my car's DVD player. I got to watch while at traffic lights and listen while moving. The screen turns off when the emergency brake is disengaged to prevent stupid people from trying to watch and drive. Holy mother. This is awesome stuff. The band is cookin' and the setlist is just fantastic. Jaco looks so young, energetic, and just plain happy to be there. Awesome awesome awesome. This DVD reminds me of how badly I want to play "Elegant People" with a band some day on stage. If you're a WR fan you absolutely must own this DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davo-London Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Just ordered it, Phil, you can borrow it later if you like. I'm with Bumpcity on playing some WR in a band. That's my dream. Davo "We will make you bob your head whether you want to or not". - David Sisk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Just ordered it, Phil, you can borrow it later if you like. I'm with Bumpcity on playing some WR in a band. That's my dream. Davo I've played some WR with a band before - I just have a powerful desire to play that particular song. If anyone cares, the songs I've played in front of people: Birdland (the 8:30 arrangement) A Remark You Made Palladium Black Market One of the times I got to play "Black Market" the head of the University of Washington jazz department played keyboards - and he was a huge Weather Report fan. It was as close to playing with Joe Zawinul as I will ever get. It was ridiculously fun. Too bad it was only in a rehearsal room at the school of music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davo-London Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 I care. I am envious of that opportunity. One day ... Davo "We will make you bob your head whether you want to or not". - David Sisk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted May 9, 2007 Author Share Posted May 9, 2007 Yeah, I would love to play some Weather Report material live - especially Black Market or Elegant People. Davo thanks for the offer. I'll take you up on that, if my wife doesn't soften her opinion on my CD/DVD buying meantime. http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
....... Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Just got it..fantastic. They mixed up the bass pretty loud! amazing performance btw if any of you pre ordered it from amazon uk (as i did) you may need to cancel your order and buy it from the marketplace as its not listed anymore (they didnt even bother to tell me, i was wondering why it hadnt arrived). worth waiting for!! WR tribute band anyone (london) - can i be joe z? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 Yes! There are a lot of us who'd want he bass role though. Davo can be Jaco, I'll be Alphonso, Lenny can be Victor Bailey ... then we can all take it in turns! http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
....... Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 I just noticed that they edited the percussion solo on this montreux gig and put it out on the heavy weather album (rumba mama). clever editing but unmistakably the same recording. It makes me curious as to what other bits are edited up in the studio. For instance the bass solo on 'port of entry' has always sounded just too good somehow, anyone know if this was overdubbed later on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 I get a lot of my WR info from Joe's biography but I never heard of the latter, I knew the former was the live recording. There's a great JZ website, you probably know, where you might find an answer: http://www.zawinulonline.org/ http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davo-London Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 WR tribute band? Count me in. Who's gonna play sax? Davo "We will make you bob your head whether you want to or not". - David Sisk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 I'll call Wayne! http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Phil W Posted May 11, 2007 Author Share Posted May 11, 2007 You know I have charts for Elegant People: piano/keys, Bb, Eb, bass and drums. I got them from a workshop organised by Ian Carr's Nucleus many years ago - I'm not sure of the origin, the bass charts is good (though it doesn't write out the fills, just the basic lines). I can't vouch for the accuracy of the other parts though I might work through them as an exercise. They are charts for performing the tune rather than a transcription but the arrangement is as on Black Market. If anybody needs/wants them, I can get them to them. http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
... Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 So this DVD has been on heavy rotation in my truck**. Damn. I didn't think it was possible to like it any more than I did upon first listen but I believe at this point I do. I dig Zawinul's little noodling on what would later become "Birdland" during the beginning of "Dr. Honoris Causa and Directions". I dig Jaco ripping out parts of what would later become "River People" during the frenzied build up during "Gibraltar". Jaco's solo "Portrait of Tracy" is fairly uninspiring however his solo in "Dr. Honoris Causa and Directions" burns like a mother. Wayne Shorter never smiles. I'm convinced. Manolo Badrena never stops smiling - I wouldn't either playing in that band. I'm curious what some of the keyboard stuff is that Zawinul is using that I don't recognize. Most notably the thing that is making all the crazy high pitched noises during "Badia". ** the truck (and my car for that matter) have navigation systems that also plays DVDs. It rules for listening to live music DVDs while driving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted May 23, 2007 Author Share Posted May 23, 2007 Must get this!! http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted June 2, 2007 Author Share Posted June 2, 2007 So this DVD has been on heavy rotation in my truck**. Damn. I didn't think it was possible to like it any more than I did upon first listen but I believe at this point I do. I dig Zawinul's little noodling on what would later become "Birdland" during the beginning of "Dr. Honoris Causa and Directions". I dig Jaco ripping out parts of what would later become "River People" during the frenzied build up during "Gibraltar". Jaco's solo "Portrait of Tracy" is fairly uninspiring however his solo in "Dr. Honoris Causa and Directions" burns like a mother. Wayne Shorter never smiles. I'm convinced. Manolo Badrena never stops smiling - I wouldn't either playing in that band. Oh yes!!! I just got this - wow! Beautiful. So many talking points. This band was hot, no accident that my favourite album is Black Market. The DVD catches the band at a point where the quotient of improvisation was higher than at some later points. The arrangements, at least some of them, sound very fluid. Jaco looks so young and plays with a lot of freedom. His fingers and thunb do 'impossible' things - his double-jointedness? is evident. He improvises more than in some of his later 'greatest licks' concerts. I loved Scarlet Woman and Badia. Yes Jaco's solo on Directions was cool. Black Market approached free jazz intensity at times as all seemed to be soloing at once until the sudden drop in volume and Jaco's rhythm guitar impression along with Joe's funky Rhodes. Great to hear Cannonball live. Get this DVD! It comes from a time in the mid 70s when fusion was still an adventure - an exploration where the destination was unknown. Good camerawork and sound. Some of the grooves - phew! Only thing I found overlong was the drum/percussion duet - I'm sure that was way more exciting live though. http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davo-London Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 Yeah but weren't Acuna and Badrena simply wonderful. You can almost see Acuna counting at some points his concentration is phenomenal. Yeah Shorter's no showman is he. Blimey, have some fun will you? Both the recent DVD's of WR show Wayne almost offish, maybe shy, tense and really a long way from fun. Contrast him with the rest of the band. Strange really as to perform well you surely need to relax a bit especially in Jazz. But his timing is impeccable. Not many shots of Jaco although some amazing close-ups showing his right hand technique. Zawinul's trousers semm a little too tight for my taste, but ... no leave it. You know for a man who is considered to have amazing technique, Zawinul always seems really jerky to me. Maybe that's the style he developed in WR. The audience were funny though. I got the feeling that they really didn't get it. Very polite though! Great DVD and pretty well recorded. Davo "We will make you bob your head whether you want to or not". - David Sisk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil W Posted June 4, 2007 Author Share Posted June 4, 2007 The close-ups of Jaco's technique are stunning, aren't they? Yes I agree about the audience. Shorter plays so well I forget how he looks. I must have another look at my Santana/Shorter DVD, he looks happier on that! http://philwbass.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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