WEATHER REPORT
The Hammersmith Odeon,
London UK
27 July 1976 (complete set)

From the first of two consecutive evenings at the Hammersmith Odeon,
both of which also featured Skakti with John McLaughlin and the Billy Cobham-George Duke Band,
hence the short running time of the set.
Weather Report were the last band on stage this night.

1st gen Audience recording, B sound quality

Setlist:

1. Elegant People (7.52)
2. Scarlet Woman (7.22)
3. Portrait Of Tracy (Jaco Pastorius solo) (4.03)
4. Barbary Coast (8.02)
5. Acuna/Badrena percussion duet (5.28)
6. Black Market (8.48)
7. Zawinul/Shorter duet (??/In A Silent Way) (5.31)
8. Gibraltar (11.24)

Total running time: 58.34

Wayne Shorter, tenor & soprano saxes
Joe Zawinul, keyboards
Jaco Pastorius, bass
Alejandro Neciosup Acuna, drums & percussion
Manolo Badrena, percussion

Source - Stereo audience recording from centre front of balcony.
Sony TC-152 analogue cassette deck from Sony ECM99 stereo mic.

Lineage:
Original cassettes have since been transferred to 1/4" tape at 15IPS, then to DAT at 48k, then to CD-R (via SADiE hard-disk editor) and finally as a single FLAC file coded with Media Monkey. File Size: 325Mb.

Very little tape-noise and no peak distortion. Only very occasional fuzziness betrays the cassette source. The balance of the band is good, with even Pastorius's bass being clear. There is hardly any intrusive audience noise. But remember, this IS an audience recording.

The recording has been edited over the years (sorry), but no music has been lost.

NOTES (from orig. seeder)
There were no introductions by the band.
The opening track fades in, but nothing is missing.
Applause between tracks 2 and 3 has been edited out, so the segue heard is not natural.
The percussion duet was to cover a fault with Joe Zawinul's keyboards.
Applause between tracks 5 and 6 has been edited out, so the segue heard is not natural.
Track 7 is obviously not an improvisation, but my titling of it as "Short Stories" is questionable.

BAND LAYOUT ON STAGE - LEFT TO RIGHT
BACK - Badrena - Acuna
FRONT - Zawinul - Shorter - Pastorius

FILES (in orig.seed)
weather_report_07_26_1976.flac
notes.txt

Add.notes from flambay:
Whole recording left untouched except for the tracking (w.Soundforge 9)

Thanks to the taper and to orig.seeder masked70

Enjoy !!

-- flambay

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     7:52.44       83364332 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5731  Weather Report 1976 07 27 - 01 Elegant People.flac
     7:22.32       78044108 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5293  Weather Report 1976 07 27 - 02 Scarlet Woman.flac
     4:03.42       42964028 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4123  Weather Report 1976 07 27 - 03 Portrait Of Tracy.flac
     8:02.50       85142444 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5845  Weather Report 1976 07 27 - 04 Barbary Coast.flac
     5:28.44       57962732 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5193  Weather Report 1976 07 27 - 05 Percussion Duet.flac
     8:48.53       93263900 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5965  Weather Report 1976 07 27 - 06 Black Market.flac
     5:31.27       58451948 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5250  Weather Report 1976 07 27 - 07 Zawinul-Shorter Duet.flac
    11:24.48      120770540 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5602  Weather Report 1976 07 27 - 08 Gibraltar.flac
    58:34.40      619964032 B                            0.5494  (8 files)


