Weather Report - Elegant People (Live At Montreux 1976)

Weather Report was founded in 1970 by musicians who had met whilst playing with Miles Davis. This Montreux Festival show from 1976 follows on from the release of their album "Black Market" but features the line-up that would release their most famous and successful album "Heavy Weather" in 1977. Previously only available as a bootleg of a TV broadcast, this new DVD release is fully authorized and has been restored to its full length.

1976 RTS / Montreux Sounds

LIVE AT MONTREUX – MONTREUX JAZZ ARCHIVES
This performance is part of the unique Claude Nobs Foundation audio-visual collection, included since 2013 in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. From Aretha Franklin or Miles Davis to David Bowie or Prince, more than 5’000 concerts have been recorded LIVE both in audio and video since the creation of the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967 by Claude Nobs.

Official Websites:

MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL
WHERE LEGENDS ARE BORN

The Montreux Jazz Festival takes place for two weeks every summer in Switzerland, drawing 250,000 music lovers to the shores of Lake Geneva. Since 1967, the Festival has celebrated all genres of music and generated countless legendary performances. Artists who have graced the stage of Montreux include Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, Prince, Bob Dylan, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar, Leonard Cohen, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Nina Simone and many more.

#MJF
#montreuxsounds
#claudenobsfoundation
#montreuxdigitalproject
#MontreuxJazzFestival
#MontreuxJazz

[RiveBassCovers]

Now he’s up there reunited with Miles, Joe, Jaco and all the others that left before him, probably having a kickass jam as we’re speaking. RIP Wayne Shorter 🙏🏻

[nielspeterborgennielsen]

Jazz fusion magicians ❤
Heard them in Denmark 4th of July 1976.
The greatest concert in my life, so far.

[edwinrivera]

The drums and percussion of Acuna and Badrena here are extraordinary. What a group of musicians this was! Brilliant Shorter, Pastorius and Zawinul 👏

[simonhodgetts]

That Zawinul Rhodes sound! Shimmering, elegant, awesome!!

[Gustavsnaf]

There will NEVER ever be another Weather Report, the discipline the creativity

[lanielight]

Oh man, Alex Acuna is truly one of the most skilled, intuitive, gifted drummers/rhymists in this world, of our time! Thank you, Alex!

[condocord]

Acuna is on fire, so is Badrena - best Weather Report line up

[urbansamurai]

Wayne Shorter an American treasure... Weather Report pure

[Riccardo_Silva]

Fifty years after WR are still unparalleled! Greatest electric jazz band ever! I was 14 when i first heard "Birdland" and decided bass playing was my goal!

[ikkenhisatsu]

Alex Acuna is a monster. Of course, the whole band are. RIP Mr. Zawinul.

[themangkuks]

Magnifique! RIP Wayne Shorter, Saxophone Colossus!

[bigwhig]

I just can't get over how hard this band worked for their audience and to get that uniquely Weather Report sound! Wayne looks like he's almost dying up there he's putting so much wind through that sax! Most sax players never touch the gear he's in shaping those notes with his embouchure. And Jaco, just unreal....did he shave the frets off that Fender bass he's playing? Just amazingly talented group of musicians at the top of their game who took Jazz into completely uncharted waters and succeeded in helping create a new form of music; Fusion. There will never be another band like them EVER but I'm so glad I got the chance to discover their music over 30 years ago.

[billbarr]

Jaco at the height of his talent.the bass playing on this tune is absolute perfection.

[madbebopper]

Unreal 3 geniuses in one band, Jaco, Wayne and Joe at the height of their powers but the thing about this group especially during the time Jaco was a member the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. I saw this group about a year and a half later when it was even a much more powerful and seamless unit with only four pieces including Peter Erskine on drums in my home town of Passaic at a small venue that since burned down - The Capitol Theater. From the 3rd row center I witnessed one of the most soul satisfying and memorable musical events of my entire life. The cohesion and brilliance of those four musicians was like nothing I'd ever heard before or since. A band like this only happens once in a lifetime and I'm grateful to have been there when they were on fire.

[stevenashurst]

Powerful ensemble. Thank GOD for ears to hear one of the greatest performances of all time....

[russhamer]

Personnel: Wayne Shorter - Sax
Joe Zawinful - Keys
Jaco Pastorius - Bass
Alex Acuna - Drums
Manolo Badrena - Percussion

[RonCarterBassist]

Thank you for sharing this... Rest in peace, Wayne.

[flame-sky]

Amazing tune. The Legend of Weather Report. You are the epitome of Elegant People, Mr. Shorter.

[johnwaystreaming]

thanks for the post, here's the lineup that i found:

Josef ‘Joe’ Erich Zawinul – keyboards;
Wayne Shorter – saxophone;
Jaco Pastorius – electric bass;
Alejandro ‘Alex’ Acuña – drums;
Manolo Badrena – percussion and vocals.

[giorgiopighini]

Oh my God! This is music! Passion, creativity, technique, generosity! Everything at the top