A Robert Collins Master Recording.

Artist / Title:        Weather Report
Date                   April 15, 1983
Location:              Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA
Seats:                 Middle section, middle area
Deck:                  Nakamichi 350
Mics:                  Nakamichi CM-300 (L, R)
Source:                A:C Master Tape, 2-Mic Stereo
Sample Rate            44.1Khz, 16-bit (CD) (FLAC)
Rating:                A/A-
Length:                130 Minutes


Also Available:
* DVD-Audio, 96 Khz, 24-bit version of this show is also available.

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Musicians:
Josef Zawinul               Keyboards
Wayne Shorter               Saxophones
Victor Bailey               Bass Guitar
Omar Hakim                  Drums
Jose Rossy                  Percussion, Concertina

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About this recording:
This concert has another story of its own, and is another reason I waited so long
to create this Weather Report memorial concert series.  Like the Starlight Bowl
concert, this is another of my favorites.  But the recording has problems, and the
problems take a lot of time and effort to fix.  So instead of working on this a
long time ago, I waited all of these years to gain the motivation to work on it.

This show is a solid A-rated show, and the recording quality is for the most part
A-rated as well.  The new band has been together for a year by now, and they perform
like a well oiled machine.  Like the Starlight Bowl show, there are moments of pure
magic on this recording.  One such moment is during the encore, during an improvised
piece I called "Delicate Fantasy."  Synthesizer technology was just starting to get
real interesting.  For the very first times, synthesizers were able to perfectly mimic
an actual instrument.  But this wasn't the magical moment.  But during an interplay
between Wayne and Joe, Zawinul dials up a perfect Tympani on his synthesizer.  But
as Joe moves up the scale on his synthesized Tympani, the instrument (and it's
waveform) morphs into a perfect French Horn.  That was a pure magical moment back
in 1983.

Another moment came during the second encore of "Where the Moon Goes."  We've all
heard jazz players do a form of call and response.  But in this case, the challenger
was Joe Zawinul, and the response came from Omar Hakim on Drums.  Yes, it's a
synthesizer vs. drums on call and response.  That was another truly magical moment.

But alas, the recording has problems.  The first minute of the recording doesn't
sound so good.  You will hear that.  The beginning of the concert the levels were
sporadic (at best) and there was lots of microphone muffling.  To fix this, I was
lucky enough to have a second source recording the same concert.  The quality isn't
the best, and you can hear this during the first minute of the concert.  There are
also times during the concert where there is apparent oversaturation of the tape
recording.  This isn't on the master tape.  The master tape levels are sufficiently
low that this oversaturation should not have occurred during recording.  But I
noticed this at least three places on the recording, and all three places original
levels were not set incorrectly.  I can only conclude this oversaturation sound came
from the house PA system, possibly caused by overdriving the preamps of the mixing
console.

The original recording also suffered two very bad tape turns.  In both cases, the
song had ended while the tape was turning.  That's very hard to fix.  Using the
second source recording, you would think it was possible to get complete versions
of each song.  Nope, he turn the tapes during the same songs as I did.  To fix
one of them, I had to take what I had, and use the very end that was captured on
the alternate recording to create a false ending.  That means about 16-bars of
music are missing.  The second tape turn was much more fortunate.  My recording
captured longer before the tape turn than the alternate second source.  I was
able to splice the two back together to fix the song.  The sonic quality of the
second source is noticeably poor.  But I did the best I could to make the
equalization sound the same.  Finally, one of the microphone cords was cutting
in and out during the encore.  There was just enough sonic material to perfectly
fix this in almost every case; but it was very time consuming.  In the three or
so cases that were too excessive to fix, I had to revert to mono; but usually only
a second or so at a time.

But even with all of these warts, the show is one of my favorites.  It's an
A-quality show with an A-quality recording.  It's a must have for any Weather
Report collection.


Weather Report Memorial Concert Series
This has been long overdue, and will still take a while to complete.
I wanted to release all of my Weather Report, Wayne Shorter, and Jaco
Pastorius recordings as part of a "Memorial" to Weather Report and its
members.  Some of these recordings were given to friends many years ago, but
most have never had a proper mastering or released.  So to most people, I
think these will be completely new recordings.  And when you see how many of
them and how good the recording quality and show quality is, then you'll
probably ask:  WTF...why haven't these ever been released?  Answer is
simple:  time.  I knew releasing this many previously unreleased recordings
was going to take a lot of time.

Some people may have copies of these one or more generations down from the
master.  All of these will be coming to you directly from the master
recordings.

Here's what to expect in the series, and in the order to be released:

Date 		Artist 			Venue 								Recording 	Show 	Release status
1980-02-29	Weather Report		Perkins Palace, Pasadena California				B	A-	Previously unreleased
1981-06-21	Weather Report		Playboy Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood California	A-	A	Previously unreleased
1982-06-01	Weather Report		Starlight Bowl, San Diago California				A	A+	Previously unreleased
1982-06-19	Weather Report		Playboy Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood California	B/B+	B+	Previously unreleased
1983-04-15	Weather Report		Universal Amphitheatre, Universal City California		A/A-	A	Previously unreleased
1984-06-16	Weather Report		Playboy Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood California	A-	TBD	Remastered
1988-07-08	Zawinul Syndicate	Hollywood Palace, Hollywood California				A	TBD	Previously unreleased
1990-08/25	Zawinul Syndicate	Concord Pavilion, Concord California				A-	TBD	Previously unreleased
1997-08-31	Zawinul Syndicate	Yoshi's, Oakland California					A+	A	Previously unreleased
1998-09-12	Zawinul Syndicate	Yoshi's, Oakland California					A+	TBD	Previously unreleased
1999-09-02	Zawinul Syndicate	Yoshi's, Oakland California					A+	TBD	Previously unreleased
2000-05-06	Zawinul Syndicate	Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco California			A-	TBD	Previously unreleased
1979-09-16	Joni Mitchell		Greek Theatre, Los Angeles California				B+	A	Remastered
1982-01-10	Jaco Pastorius		Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles California		A-	A-	Remastered
1982-04-15	Jaco Pastorius		Rissmiller Country Club, Reseda California			B+	A-	Previously unreleased
1983-11-20	Jaco Pastorius		Beverly Theatre, Los Angeles, California			A	TBD	Previously unreleased
1984-06-17	Jaco Pastorius		Playboy Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood California	A	Note*	Previously unreleased
1997-09-04	Hancock / Shorter	Villa Montalvo Mountain Winery, Saratoga California		A-	A-	Re-seed

Note:  This is the "rumored" Jaco recording written about in a Jaco biography.
The author writes about a "rumored" recording made at the Playboy Jazz Festival
when Jaco tore the stage apart and his own musicians eventually refused to play
for him.  Playboy Jazz promoters eventually turned the stage on Jaco to put an
end to his set.  This is the recording referenced in the book.  It's
depressing.

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Lineage:
AUD> Nakamichi 350
---> Nakamichi Dragon (playback)
---> Korg MR1000 (5.6 Mhz, 1-bit master tape)
---> Down sample to 96Khz, 32-bit using Korg Audiogate
---> iZotope RX-Advanced (noise reduction, spectral editing)
---> Sound Forge (put the concert back together)
---> iZotope RX-Advanced (downsample, dither)
---> CD Architect (CD Audio)
---> EAC
---> FLAC

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Sound Samples:
Sample-1 (Molasses Run):
http://www.rcollins.org/concerts/mp3/WR-19830415-Sample-1.mp3

Sample-1 (Delicate Fantasy):
http://www.rcollins.org/concerts/mp3/WR-19830415-Sample-2.mp3

Sample-1 (Where the Moon Goes):
http://www.rcollins.org/concerts/mp3/WR-19830415-Sample-3.mp3

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Song List:
Disc-1:
       Start           End        Length  Name
------------  ------------  ------------  --------------------------
00:00:00.000  00:10:32.101  00:10:32.101  Procession
00:10:32.101  00:19:54.430  00:09:22.329  Fast City
00:19:54.430  00:30:13.012  00:10:18.582  The Peasant
00:30:13.012  00:45:48.981  00:15:35.969  D-Flat Waltz
00:45:48.981  00:58:54.556  00:13:05.575  Blue Sound - Note 3
00:58:54.556  01:05:03.832  00:06:09.276  Molasses Run

Disc-2:
       Start           End        Length  Name
------------  ------------  ------------  --------------------------
00:00:00.000  00:07:55.975  00:07:55.975  Plaza Real
00:07:55.975  00:11:21.393  00:03:25.418  Percussion Solo
00:11:21.393  00:28:03.057  00:16:41.664  Two Lines
00:28:03.057  00:29:46.106  00:01:43.050  8:30
00:29:46.106  00:31:01.310  00:01:15.203  Black Market
00:31:01.310  00:31:32.726  00:00:31.417  Elegant People
00:31:32.726  00:33:12.056  00:01:39.330  Badia
00:33:12.056  00:36:47.526  00:03:35.470  A Remark You Made
00:36:47.526  00:41:08.257  00:04:20.730  Birdland
00:41:08.257  00:52:19.371  00:11:11.114  Delicate Fantasy
00:52:19.371  01:05:14.283  00:12:54.912  Where The Moon Goes


FFP Fingerprints:
Disc-1:
1.01 Procession.flac:5c2a8ab8dff988998a98ea93773f9aa6
1.02 Fast City.flac:19b967e975df23094f413889b9332054
1.03 The Peasant.flac:ed0bdca44ef9f97efb201df2e0cece75
1.04 D-Flat Waltz.flac:56092d886e00a74bde57f76835a200ac
1.05 Blue Sound - Note 3.flac:a41567285ea9822ab1d0cb9e0871695a
1.06 Molasses Run.flac:17efc3ca3f2432123cd03005efcb2648

Disc-2:
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2.02 Percussion Solo.flac:bcc6022725fddf0e1088f06993438fa3
2.03 Two Lines.flac:a8455d376c4c210543918ba3261cec59
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2.05 Black Market.flac:e2cc8d74074e74b3ff632f3fa23ae09e
2.06 Elegant People.flac:2cd70d1fa8712ed18210ce3e36bc38fb
2.07 Badia.flac:1d67831e0770a3951db455b050cb8d88
2.08 A Remark You Made.flac:25b28fce72a8170fcfd7fdc68f99e53d
2.09 Birdland.flac:c5c2eb316a24b9e0d0fa4695bda43a68
2.10 Delicate Fantasy.flac:28f389bc7bbd5254eea10e4e90eac5c5
2.11 Where The Moon Goes.flac:2f695f26fb61a29641d72abcb17dc2e4

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     9:22.25       99195644 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6706  1.02 Fast City.flac
    10:18.43      109116380 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5502  1.03 The Peasant.flac
    15:35.73      165105740 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6371  1.04 D-Flat Waltz.flac
    13:05.43      138575180 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5158  1.05 Blue Sound - Note 3.flac
     6:09.22       65143388 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6111  1.06 Molasses Run.flac
     7:55.73       83961740 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5619  2.01 Plaza Real.flac
     3:25.31       36234956 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4623  2.02 Percussion Solo.flac
    16:41.50      176694044 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6245  2.03 Two Lines.flac
     1:43.03       18176300 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5984  2.04 8-30.flac
     1:15.16       13267676 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6146  2.05 Black Market.flac
     0:31.31        5541356 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6281  2.06 Elegant People.flac
     1:39.25       17522444 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5571  2.07 Badia.flac
     3:35.35       38008364 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5199  2.08 A Remark You Made.flac
     4:20.55       45993404 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6038  2.09 Birdland.flac
    11:11.08      118383260 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.3945  2.10 Delicate Fantasy.flac
    12:54.70      136698284 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5760  2.11 Where The Moon Goes.flac
   130:18.10     1379119468 B                            0.5747  (17 files)


