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Weather Report Veteran's Memorial Auditorium, Providence, RI 12 November 1978 Very good audience recording. 0:00:00 Black Market 12:21 0:12:20 Scarlet Woman 11:02 0:23:23 Young and Fine 7:14 0:30:37 A Remark you Made 7:19 0:37:56 The Pursuit of the Woman with the Feathered Hat 8:32 0:46:29 Continuum 1:58 0:48:27 River People 9:01 0:57:28 Thanks For The Memories ~ Dolores 4:44 (Shorter solo) 1:02:12 Slang 9:46 (Pastorious solo) 1:11:59 Mr. Gone 10:43 1:22:42 In a Silent Way 4:09 1:26:51 Waterfall 3:58 1:30:50 Teen Town 9:56 (spliced) 1:40:46 E1: Alfie 4:04 (Zawinul solo) 1:44:51 Birdland 8:02 1:52:53 E2: 6:22 Erskine solo 1:59:15 Badia 2:28 2:01:44 Boogie Woogie Waltz 11:57 (spliced) Wayne Shorter - sax Josef Zawinul - keyboards Jaco Pastorious - bass Peter Erskine - drums When Weather Report released Mr Gone in 1978, the album got only a one-star review in Down Beat, possibly the most controversial review in the magazine’s history. David Less wrote: “Where earlier Weather Report records possessed a sense of adventures, Mr. Gone is coated with the sterility of a too completely preconceived project. While Weather Report was innovative and pivotal in its first experiments, the members now seem out of touch with their basic responsibility as musicians: to communicate. By not taking chances they have nothing to lose, but conversely they have nothing to gain. Weather Report’s status has shifted over the years from a combo of premier jazz-rock innovators to a super-hip rock band with jazz overtones. This LP should prove disappointing to those Weather Report fans who still remember the genuine excitement of its earlier efforts.” Following the successful Heavy Weather, and despite the poor Down Beat review, Mr Gone still went gold. But review or no review, live in Providence, Weather Report stuck to their guns, played only two four tracks from their then new album, and electrified the audience with a solid performance that was a mix of the classic and the new. While drummer Peter Erskine might be relatively “new,” they still came across as a tightly-knitted group. It’s also obvious the group needed the space of a live show to really stretch themselves. While Black Market offered a rousing and confident opening number - like a group possessed, with Shorter firing on all cylinders and Peter Erskine making his mark, listeners can feel a high on A Remark You Made; surf another peak with In A Silent Way and finally enjoy the home stretch beginning with Birdland. If Zawinul’s keyboards provide an onerous drone more akin to prog rock, then it is left to Shorter who can always be relied upon to give it that swing. There are some Weather Report fans who feel that the Wayne Shorter-Josef Zawinul-Jaco Pastorius-Peter Erskine lineup is the best ever and, listening to this show, it is hard to disagree.