Weather Report — Montreux Jazz Festival, 1976

Filmed live concert at the Casino de Montreux on July 8, 1976, during the Montreux Jazz Festival. Weather Report appears here in one of its most celebrated line-ups: founders Joe Zawinul (keyboards) and Wayne Shorter (saxophone), young prodigy Jaco Pastorius on fretless bass, Alex Acuña on drums and Manolo Badrena on percussion. Captured around the Black Market album, this jazz-fusion set runs through “Elegant People,” “Scarlet Woman,” “Barbary Coast,” the bass showcase “Portrait of Tracy,” “Cannon Ball” and “Black Market,” before a run of duets and the closing “Gibraltar.” An essential document for gauging Pastorius’s revolutionary impact and the group interplay that made Weather Report one of the most influential electric-jazz bands of the 1970s. Keywords: Weather Report live, Montreux 1976, jazz fusion, Jaco Pastorius, full concert.