TAS Rated 4/5 Music, 3.5/5 Sonics in the September 2019 Issue of The Absolute Sound!
High Quality Pure Analogue 180g Vinyl Double LP!
Do you remember what you did you on the evening of January 13, 1972? A multitude of Japanese jazz lovers walked or drove to the grand Shibuya Public Hall in Tokyo where they enjoyed a veritable firework display of a concert, which was without exaggeration a milestone in the history of jazz. The technicians from the Japanese subsidiary of Columbia, Sony, had placed their microphones and tape machines with great care and captured this memorable concert live.
Two of the numbers had already been recorded in New York with the same group of musicians for the album I Sing The Body Electric. But to experience Weather Report live with this ensemble was only granted to the enthusiastic Japanese jazz fans.
The concert programme consisted of long medleys composed by Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul, which were dissected and put together again with interplay between the rhythm group and the soloists. Wayne Shorter, who plays the tenor and soprano saxophone and the virtuoso Joe Zawinul, who loved to alternate between the acoustic and electric piano, were quite rightly awarded with frenetic applause from the audience.
The most recognizable numbers are probably "Doctor Honoris Causa", (which Cannonball Adderley also often liked to perform this piece in public), and "Directions" (just listen once again to the version which Wayne Shorter recorded with Miles Davis!).
Most of todays vinyl fans will have missed out on the tour back then. Thats why it is especially pleasing that this live event is available once again as a vinyl double album. And what is more: one can enjoy an enhanced sound thanks to the superb reproduction techniques of the 21st century.
This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head.
Features:
• 180g High Quality Vinyl
• Double LP
• Pure Analogue
• Made from the original, analogue mastertapes
• Pressed at Pallas in Germany
• Faithful reproduction of original artwork and label
• Gatefold jacket
Musicians:
Wayne Shorter, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Joe Zawinul, piano, electric piano
Miroslav Vitous, bass, electric bass
Eric Gravatt, drums
Don Um Romao, percussion
Selections:
1. Medley: Vertical Invader / Seventh Arrow / T.H. / Doctor Honoris Causa
2. Medley: Surucucu / Lost / Early Minor / Directions
3. Orange Lady
4. Medley: Eurydice / The Moors
5. Medley: Tears / Umbrellas
Recorded January 1972 at Shibuya Philharmonic Hall, Tokyo.
High Quality Pure Analogue 180g Vinyl Double LP!
Do you remember what you did you on the evening of January 13, 1972? A multitude of Japanese jazz lovers walked or drove to the grand Shibuya Public Hall in Tokyo where they enjoyed a veritable firework display of a concert, which was without exaggeration a milestone in the history of jazz. The technicians from the Japanese subsidiary of Columbia, Sony, had placed their microphones and tape machines with great care and captured this memorable concert live.
Two of the numbers had already been recorded in New York with the same group of musicians for the album I Sing The Body Electric. But to experience Weather Report live with this ensemble was only granted to the enthusiastic Japanese jazz fans.
The concert programme consisted of long medleys composed by Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul, which were dissected and put together again with interplay between the rhythm group and the soloists. Wayne Shorter, who plays the tenor and soprano saxophone and the virtuoso Joe Zawinul, who loved to alternate between the acoustic and electric piano, were quite rightly awarded with frenetic applause from the audience.
The most recognizable numbers are probably "Doctor Honoris Causa", (which Cannonball Adderley also often liked to perform this piece in public), and "Directions" (just listen once again to the version which Wayne Shorter recorded with Miles Davis!).
Most of todays vinyl fans will have missed out on the tour back then. Thats why it is especially pleasing that this live event is available once again as a vinyl double album. And what is more: one can enjoy an enhanced sound thanks to the superb reproduction techniques of the 21st century.
This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head.
Features:
• 180g High Quality Vinyl
• Double LP
• Pure Analogue
• Made from the original, analogue mastertapes
• Pressed at Pallas in Germany
• Faithful reproduction of original artwork and label
• Gatefold jacket
Musicians:
Wayne Shorter, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Joe Zawinul, piano, electric piano
Miroslav Vitous, bass, electric bass
Eric Gravatt, drums
Don Um Romao, percussion
Selections:
1. Medley: Vertical Invader / Seventh Arrow / T.H. / Doctor Honoris Causa
2. Medley: Surucucu / Lost / Early Minor / Directions
3. Orange Lady
4. Medley: Eurydice / The Moors
5. Medley: Tears / Umbrellas
Recorded January 1972 at Shibuya Philharmonic Hall, Tokyo.
