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Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1976
 
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Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1976 (2006)
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4.7 out of 5 stars  (16 customer reviews)

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Product Details
  • Actors: Weather Report
  • Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Enhanced, Live, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
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  • Studio: Eagle Rock Ent
  • DVD Release Date: April 17, 2007
  • Run Time: 84 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  (16 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000NTPFNA
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,157 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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The chance to witness world class musicians and a great band at a vital point in its evolution is the appeal of Weather Report: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1976. Joe Zawinul (keyboards) and Wayne Shorter (saxophones), co-founders of the enterprise that many would call the greatest jazz-fusion group ever, had recently been joined by a player of almost equal stature: Jaco Pastorius, who at age 24 was busy re-defining the fretless electric bass for generations to come. Pastorius had played on some of Black Market, the most recent Weather Report recording, but he'd only been touring with them for three months when they appeared at the Montreux event; though not yet fully integrated, his playing here frequently backs up his self-description as "the greatest bass player in the world," not only on Black Market material like Shorter's "Elegant People" and Zawinul's "Cannon Ball" and title song (two of his most melodic and enduring tunes) but on earlier items like "Badia" and "Scarlet Woman" as well. With Manolo Badrena on percussion and the explosive Alex Acuna on drums, this was the quintet that would go on to release the landmark Heavy Weather album a year later (you can hear Zawinul noodling on the melody that would become "Birdland," their breakout hit, during "Dr. Honoris Causa"). This gig, which clocks in at slightly under 90 minutes, is smoking from start to finish. The band expands on (and, in the case of "Black Market," slightly speeds up)