Miroslav Vitouš – Music Of Weather Report (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Miroslav Vitouš – Music Of Weather Report (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:46 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

The great Czech bassist returns once more to the music of Weather Report, the group he co-founded with Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter in 1970. It’s the improvisational freedom of the early Weather Report that most interests Vitous, and he abides by their old rallying call “everyone solos and no one solos”. Well-known Report repertoire re-explored includes “Birdland”, “Seventh Arrow”, “Scarlet Woman”, “Pinocchio” and “Morning Lake” and Miroslav’s group also plays “Acrobat’s Issues” a piece which the first Weather Report line-up played but didn’t record. Interspersed along the way are three new blues tunes from Vitous’s pen. The band, driven by the astounding double drumming of Gerald Cleaver and Nasheet Waits, is energetic and daring, juxtaposing time playing and rhythmically free pulses, with Miroslav’s arco bass playing sometimes sounding like a third horn in between the two saxophones.

Tracklist:
01. Miroslav Vitouš – Scarlet Woman Variations (05:58)
02. Miroslav Vitouš – Seventh Arrow (06:42)
03. Miroslav Vitouš – Multi Dimension Blues 2 (01:30)
04. Miroslav Vitouš – Birdland Variations (09:58)
05. Miroslav Vitouš – Multi Dimension Blues 1 (02:05)
06. Miroslav Vitouš – Pinocchio (06:34)
07. Miroslav Vitouš – Acrobat Issues (05:32)
08. Miroslav Vitouš – Scarlet Reflections (02:46)
09. Miroslav Vitouš – Multi Dimension Blues 3 (04:55)
10. Miroslav Vitouš – Morning Lake (06:43)

Personnel:
Miroslav Vitouš – Double Bass, Keyboards
Gary Campbell, Roberto Bonisolo – Soprano and Tenor Saxophone
Aydin Esen – Keyboards
Gerald Cleaver, Nasheet Waits – Drums

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