Weather Report
1973-06-27
Saratoga Springs, NY
Saratoga Performing Arts Center


Master tape, recording and lineage info below.
The recording is mono and has been properly presented that way,
i.e. the two channels waveforms are identical.

01  Vertical Invader>Improvisation
02  Early Minor
03  It’s About That Time
04  Percussion Intro to>
05  Directions
06  Boogie Woogie Waltz
07  125th. Street Congress>7th. Arrow

Joe Zawinul
Wayne Shorter
Miroslav Vitous
Eric Gravatt
Dom Um Romao

When I posted my first/inferior share of the 1974-01-31 show I was contacted
by some one who told me he had the master of that show.
He also had two others that he sent to me.  Here’s the third one.

And here are some notes that he provided with the audio.

“The band consisted of Josef Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Miroslav Vitous,
Eric Gravatt, and Dom Um Romao.  WR followed the Climax Blues Band and
preceded BB King.  The taper sat in one of the first few rows of the
large SPAC shed, to the far right, and recorded WR only, using Memorex
cassettes and a Panasonic Slimline cassette recorder.  Many years later,
the cassette reels were transferred to new cassette shells and the
recordings were digitized into WAV files via Goldwave before being
losslessly compressed into APE files.  Years after that, the APE files
were decompressed back into WAV files before being compressed into
FLAC files.  Goldwave was used to mildly edit the beginnings and endings
of the files, boost the volume of files as needed, divide the files into
tracks, and to detect and correct DC offsets.  No EQ was applied”.

This was given to me as 5 tracks.  I’ve split them into 7 tracks.
I’ve used a bit of eq and cleaned up the transitions between songs
here and there.

Thanks to our benefactor who was kind enough to contact me
and allow us all to hear these shows.

Two of the shows evidently are quite rare and possibly unheard until now.
And the first one I shared was only available in an inferior severely edited
form before he stepped forward and allowed it and these others to come out.

The three shows are:

1973-06-27  Saratoga
1974-01-31  Williamstown
1974-07-13  Washington D.C.

    length     expanded size    cdr  WAVE problems  fmt   ratio  filename
     8:04.25       85436444 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.2867  Weather Report 1973-06-27 01.flac
     1:41.33       17894060 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.2710  Weather Report 1973-06-27 02.flac
     8:59.53       95204300 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.2866  Weather Report 1973-06-27 03.flac
     1:24.38       14907020 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.3512  Weather Report 1973-06-27 04.flac
     3:43.51       39457196 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.3969  Weather Report 1973-06-27 05.flac
    10:41.06      113086556 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.2817  Weather Report 1973-06-27 06.flac
    12:22.02      130893548 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4080  Weather Report 1973-06-27 07.flac
    46:56.58      496879124 B                            0.3276  (7 files)
