Weather Report : Jaco Pastorius Teen Town Midnight Special 1977

[@wonder6789]

Almost half a century old, and as fresh as tomorrow. One of the best bands of all time.

[@taf44tt8io]

as fresh as tomorrow. With Jaco at his best. I'm still listening - again and again - their marvelous music, from Mysterious Traveller to Sportin Life and, of course, their masterpieces, Black Market and Heavy Weather.

[@wonder6789]

@@taf44tt8io Don't forget all the first ones, "I Sing the Body Electric", "Sweetnighter", etc!

[@PeteRose-h1x]

I was in the audience for this taping. Life changing.

[@etiennecfourie777]

I can imagine especially with that high vibe high energy!! What a pleasure it must have been!

[@gramaticalmente47]

Prove it

[@Ghost1126]

I was at Woodstock the night before....Hendrix finished and we hustled down to this gig. Then the next day we saw Pink Floyd perform the Wall live in Berlin. It was a life changing 3 days!

[@captainshiner42]

I only saw this like 25 years later. My life was also changed by it. Weather Report were THE fucking cats!

[@pedroberoes49]

RIP Jaco, Wayne and Joe. One of the strongest groups that ever lived, I feel blessed that these recordings exist and that these masters got to put these out.

[@fernandomaldonado3098]

Hell yeah I play my ass of because of this band.

[@winstonsmith7652]

Lovely to see Jaco really enjoying himself. God I miss him.

[@4tinfaces]

I miss him too-

[@heyyou6126]

This is probably one of few times he was really happy 😊

[@BV-nx6vq]

Me too...saw him w/ Joni in '79, then my bud told me in '87 he was gone & how he went...so sad, but @ least we have Jaco archived for posterity...greatest electric bassist ever IMO...

[@flynnaugustbassist8523]

I miss him and I wasn’t even born then.

[@footale]

@@heyyou6126 indeed, he wasn't that happy JZ cut playing at the end though ;)

[@jonsmith848]

I truly miss this era in music & art.

[@stangovers7441]

A friend of mine and I saw Weather Report every night that they played at the Whiskey A Go Go. We stood at the stage, looking up in awe. After their last set, Joe bent down and asked us if we would like to go back stage since we had been there every night. I'll never forget the conversations we heard. "What is music" is what was talked about. Many of the answers were really "out there". What an amazing band!❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@piperjohn_3]

Jaco in top form is surreal to watch.

[@jellyfish3333]

I know this vid is more about Jaco, but I was just as enthralled by Joe Zawinul's genius. One of the few musicians who were not intimidated playing with Miles Davis. In an interview in the early days of Weather Report, Joe was asked how it felt to play with Miles; Joe's answer was "Why don't you ask him how it felt to play with me"? No brag, just fact; Joe was every bit Miles' equal!

[@paxplayalong]

100% agree, this guy is nuts

[@carltonwhite9682]

No he wasn't...Miles changed the fabric of music as we know it...Joe was there for the wonderful ride......don't get it twisted!... Wayne Shorter was the so-called genius in the crew and Jaco was the rock star!

[@carltonwhite9682]

Been listening to jazz since the 1960s...never heard Zawinul spoken of as a genius...it was always Wayne Shorter...Zawinul's great value was in his ability to lead an almost always grouping of legitimate jazz All-stars.

[@dme1016]

Even with his brilliance, Zawanul has a Nazi-like attitude. Given that he has family connects in Austria, they may have BEEN Nazis..

[@bbigd0]

And THAT is the answer Zawinul should have given .

[@panorama4526]

I´ll never forget this bassline for the rest of my life...

[@zausenke]

So do I - I've tried to play it.

[@joshuaherner7315]

The way Jaco Pastorius is smiling in the first 2:00 of this video encapsulates everything that I know to be excitement and intrigue. Bless whomever uploaded this.

[@leobell3502]

I saw that same exact lineup at the Fox Warfield Theater on Market Street in San Francisco. They were spectacular. They're such great musicians, so much so that it's frightening. Of all the dozens of live concerts I've attended, Weather Report, with Jaco, was my number one, favorite of all time. The acoustics were absolutely superb.

[@waynefoote3781]

I was at a Warfield show too man!!! however there was no Airto! Jaco ran out onto the stage with no shirt on I think it was 1980 show. Totally Powerful show with Peter Erskine! What year were you there?

[@richardfeather5850]

Saw them at the Warfield... unreal cool

[@RM-gn2nj]

Midnight Special was such a cool show. This is my fav for sure. RIP Jaco

[@michaelwright1467]

2024.I was just playing some old WR out in my garage last week. My nephew and his friend , both teens studying music go, Say Unc, who is that jamming? I just smiled and laughed, One of the best Jazz-Fusions groups to ever do it...Weather Report. I was playing the 8:30 Live CD..

[@fibboobbif]

With Badrena and Acuna as percussionists, you dont need a sophisticated jazz drummer like Erskine... just another beast like Alphonse Mouzon who nails the beat. RIP my friend.

[@robertmichels8972]

I think Acuna played the trap drums on this song, and on most of the live tunes from this incarnation of the band.

[@Riddim4]

Alex played the heck out of the drumset with this band. Seek out the 1976 recordings from Bologna and Kristianstad. A very, very bad man.

[@jackeaffe]

Wunderbar, Jaco Pastorius und wunderbar die Band, allen voran Joe Zawinul!!! Tolle Aufnahme

[@DanielWesleyKCK]

Man, compared to the album version they are burning through this...

[@hubbsllc]

Oh yeah - live, "Teen Town" tended to just go nuts. The version on the album 8:30 makes this one seem mild by comparison.

[@Claytone-Records]

hubbsllc, Yesss, 8:30 is the shit.

[@josephsiciliano3681]

They were a live juggernaut. Just listen to 8:30 .

[@fuhai4413]

And... Jacob's smile during the burn!!

[@JoeDiVitaMusic]

cocaine is a helluva drug!

[@akheem7515]

One of the best ever. Happy to have seen them play live!

[@larrylanberg3552]

God this is really good. I am a Genesis fan lifelong who just stumbled on it. Incredible.

[@waynefoote3781]

NICE! You gotta hear them with Peter Erskine man!

[@redbarchetta8782]

Loved them back in the day. Man, thems were the days...

[@ComprendreSonDos]

Jaco Pastorius' trollface at 1:04 kills me every time. He's like " yeah I can play like this, u mad ? "

[@taf44tt8io]

Apparently, Wayne do not like at all the way Jaco strolled while playing.

[@lorrainetorres1516]

It's a "catch me if you can" mischievous (sp) look. I love it! He was so gorgeous

[@matthewsachaullymce279]

“Eat this” he said!…

[@jbachhuber]

Heard this for the first time 1978 or 79. Still gives me goose bumps after all these years hearing it!

[@paulsimmons5726]

Weather Report was to the new-jazz era what Yes was to the prog-rock era... everyone on stage was a complete master of their instrument. RIP Jaco!

[@svetlakarcina341]

Chris Square played with pick on Rickenbacker.Please ,never compare Weather Report with Yes....

[@voxsatan3736]

Please, never compare Weather Report with Yes. We are talking about MUSIC here.

[@madu251]

I agree with @paulsimmons. Both groups broke new ground in terms of their longer form compositions. Their styles may be different but musicality is about more than technique ( and that’s not a critique of anyone in either group).

[@neilterry1726]

@@svetlakarcina341 God, nothing worse than jazz snobs. A dose of genius clouded in countless musical farts, and some don't get the joke.

[@fusionfan6883]

@@svetlakarcina341Do you actually know Yes’ music and how important they were, not just in prog rock, but even more widely? Also, you betray your ignorance when you fail to appreciate the widely recognised genius of people like Wakeman, Bruford and Howe for starters, and Squire was revolutionary in his approach to bass at the time.

[@fouad894]

A monster is talking with his Fender Jazz Bass Precision.... From Tangier , we salute you all❤❤❤❤❤

[@sparklemonkey11]

Hanging out in music stores in the 70s musicians would have fantastic wild stories about jaco pastorious. And they were all true.

[@kenestra123]

This was probably a little bit to heavy for that Midnight Special audience!

[@greasedog]

I remember this perform live on tv. Believe it or not, at least myself and my brother knew what we were watch and the audience seemed into it at the time.

[@MainelyW212]

They showed up for John Mayer. Ended up with Meshuggah. Of jazz.

[@demultiplexeur2]

No it's La Météo.

[@jonsmith848]

Dont think so. Midnight Special had it all.

[@sverigetv1]

Too heavy weather for the audience :)

[@Zaul2410]

Zawinul had to stand up and stop the tune himself, haha ha then jaco turned like, "huh? Is it over?", cool

[@SirBoopBoop]

Haha Jaco didn't want it to be done lol! ^_^

[@LucaLindemann]

:D :D :D so true!!!

[@los_rubos]

Joe was an asshole I hear. Jaco was a rival to him.. in his mind

[@Zaul2410]

Yeah man i've Heard that Joe Disaprove Jaco constantly :(

[@taf44tt8io]

@@Zaul2410 Because he became the real musical leader of the band. Anybody said : JACO, everybody thought WR and listen the pulse of his drive ! Joe and Wayne grew up with Miles. When they founded the band, they already were among the great worldwide and all time musicians ever. And suddenly, a new galaxy named Jaco, dropped on stage !!! I always loved Wayne, since his Jazz Messengers's years and still love him. Now his 87, the age of a grandfather. I really would know his deep feelings about Jaco.

[@sirschittzalott9730]

As an aspiring musician, I hope that one day I can take the stage with some good friends and have as good a time as Jaco is here.

[@germanbarros7115]

Grande Pastorius su pasión desbordaba su performance y llegaba a remecernos hasta los huesos.Que tremendo pedazo de músico y con esta legendaria banda se elevaba a los cielos.Gracias por subir este tema tan extraordinario.

[@RealFrankZappa]

Every video game from the 8-bit to 64-bit gen owes their musical inspiration to Jaco

[@joannemiles9469]

I never knew how Great he was until my Mom told me he was her cousin and heard about him through family and other people when i mentioned his name. I just wish i had his talent and yours too Frank. Been a fan of yours for a while

[@stubbsmusic543]

Has anybody ever noticed that this is sort of a variation on Zawinul's "Mercy, Mercy? " C13 A13 - F13 D13 and "she knocks me off my feet" for the bridge... just a thought... Jocko's riffs become more comprehensible when viewed in the context of these chord changes.

[@waynefoote3781]

Wow ...I gotta check that out. Didn't Jaco write this?

[@Bjrosiy]

@@waynefoote3781 yes, he did.

[@letsleepingdogslie2492]

I actually saw the night it aired originally on Midnight Special! LOL

[@jazzsoul6067]

Old ass! LOL!

[@maitai1180]

Wow.

[@letsleepingdogslie2492]

@@jazzsoul6067 LOL it was great in high school hanging with buddies and in awed with what was happening in music! Remarkable man just mind blowing!

[@jazzsoul60]

@@letsleepingdogslie2492 I never saw this episode. During my High Schools years, i was generally out on Friday evenings. It would have been great to have the technology we have today back then with the quality of TV programming that existed. HD, 5.1 sound!

[@ClaudiaSouza-g5c]

Isso é que é e são músicos.... Chão!!! Gênios!!!!! Pacooooo..., Esther Report!!!!!

[@jeffsaginaw1769]

They were THAT GOOD - FIFTY F'ING YEARS AGO!!!! I never got to see them cause I was always playing but compared to this I was a roady. What good fortune that they happened to meet and create the magical musical legacy. Thanks for posting this!

[@claudiasouza5747]

Eterno Jaco!!!...... ferveeee tudo..... I Love!!!

[@cymbya]

Badrena is SO badass with that bass drum hit lol THX 4 posting!

[@SuperMusicology101]

Master Class Weather Report the Best

[@waynefoote3781]

WOW! Extremely vintage and so powerful! .....Manolo Badrena and Alex Acuna..........Totally Incredible drumming!

[@stevemagnone8368]

Not Airto, Manolo Badrena.

[@waynefoote3781]

Thank you so much man...I did make the correction My mistake.@@stevemagnone8368

[@waynefoote3781]

hey I wonder if they both ever did an album together?@@stevemagnone8368

[@stevemagnone8368]

You're Welcome! On the 1st x ( of 3 times...) I saw WR, it was This lineup and tour. Yowza!?

[@8020drummer]

I"m not sure the juice was worth the squeeze for the extra bass drum at 2:19

[@borinacalzetta1394]

Legend and Timeless, Forever Jazz🌹

[@wesleymarkmusic403]

Man, that is tighter than a 32" belt on a 40" waist. Just wow!!

[@scottyg5403]

Wow! Great performance! This was the year I attended the Armed Forces School of music. You could hear this album in the hallways of the dorm.

[@pattomuso]

I saw them in Melbourne AUS the next year....revealed a whole new musical realm to the 23yo me!

[@BV-nx6vq]

Astonishing...never saw WR (damn - wish i had), but saw Jaco w/Joni in '79 & Koinonia w/ Alex Acuna (& distinguished friends) early 80's...scene is so different today...maybe I've missed something, but i just don't see these kind of musical trailblazers today...

[@murkymurk8305]

Hey you got more than your fair share lol congratulations.

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

This is a big part of why the 70s were the greatest decade for music. We had jazz, funk, jazz fusion, prog, psychedelic, medieval-classical, hard rock, Gaelic and Welsh rock, and so many shades of "experimental" that didn't fit into any category at all. This was the decade of Zappa, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Weather Report, Stanley Clarke, Jean Luc Ponty and Parliament. Etc. Sure, the 60s were fun, and lots of great music has been made after 1980, but there was never a decade for music like the 70s. Where's my TARDIS?

[@klasseact6663]

70's by a mile and it's not even close❗️❗️

[@davidofpiano423]

This was one of the first videos I ever obsessively watched on KZbin years ago.

[@Studio-62]

I wonder when in 1977 this was taped. I saw them in Toronto in 77, I think it was May or June. There was no Badrena, and I’ve read since that he was dismissed from the band. But almost every album and performance featured a percussionist, except 8:30, which I believe is a document of this tour. And yes, they were phenomenal in Toronto…did I mention I was 16 years old, in the second row at Convocation Hall.

[@theresa42213]

My Daddy grew me up with all the good jazz! ....l ended up in the Prog genre for years!

[@amasayisrael5217]

Me too but mine wasn't into Contemporary Jazz. He was a DJ and all he listened too was old school Jazz. I like them both.

[@theresa42213]

@@amasayisrael5217 ~ Hi! Thanks for sharing. :D

[@tonybmusic1166]

Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter are the integral members of Weather Report and I bought every single album that the group released starting with Miroslav Vitous and Eric Gravatt on bass and drums but Heavy Weather is my favorite. In the 70’s I copied it on an 8 track (it was just vinyl and 8 track back then) and drove my wife (she was my girlfriend at the time) crazy playing it in my car.

[@lablaine1981]

Sweetnighter,1972... This is this,1986... What a trip🎵🎶🆒

[@blahblahoink]

Wow. Saw them in 78 but this is just ultimate!

[@damonreynolds6775]

Such prodigious beauty within such a tortured soul. He should be with us today, a long life of work behind him. But, short as it was, his legacy is indelible, his presence inimitable. RIP Jaco, gone but never forgotten.

[@antonionogueira8534]

Jaco Pastorius Melhor baixista De todos tempos .Amo baixo elétrico que acordes neste teclado

[@miguellopez8608]

Increible toda laa banda no hay a quien irle pero ese jaco siempre ha sido y sera el mejor en lo suyo que en paz descanse saludos desde Mexico

[@rap_n_rool]

This is Crazy... N°1 cheers from Italy 🇮🇹🔝🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼

[@mikemontoya1936]

They murdered it Awesome performance hell of a live Band

[@照屋紀一郎-u9f]

アレックスアクーニャがドラムの頃の映像は初めて見た素晴らしい🎉

[@jiyujizai]

こんな表情の若いジャコの映像は久しぶり👋😆💕に見た。😃サンキュー😆💕✨嬉しく思う。😃😎🤗

[@MrMrh1958]

I saw this line up. Superb!👏👏👏👏👏

[@CursedInEternity92]

Keyboard player was amazing, playing the part as well as shadowing Jacos part lol literally insane chops on that dude imo

[@Crunkboy415]

He wasn't amazing, he was Joe Zawimul 🤣

[@Emersonlakeorpalmer]

2:29 spicy chords

[@yournamehere6719]

Seeing this on TV as a 16 year old, set me free.

[@mikemontoya3583]

That latino Flavor 👏 BRAVO!

[@redline2115]

Saw this tour with my Jr High School buddies! We were ahead of our time.

[@goyonigo]

Impresionante!!! Jaja y Jaco no quería parar de tocar.

[@Manofpeasable]

No cocaine was injured during the course of this performance.

[@anyone-f2r]

bjfdog True, this was pre drug for Jaco at least.

[@benegeserit1]

bjfdog Priceless comment!

[@anyone-f2r]

Too dummies commenting. No shortage of stupidity in this world.

[@spiritjestertimecube8819]

@@anyone-f2r i know right, "hur dur jwoah this music is weird and crazy they M u S t H a V e Been on drugs or something lol" fucking idiots this isnt made with anything else BUT SPIRIT

[@rahvavaenlane]

@@spiritjestertimecube8819 how tf you know that, were you there?

[@massapower]

Now that's AMAZING!! 😎🤘

[@philrobertson9335]

Jaco and Joe... so killer, 2 gods

[@georgematulich4163]

Saw WR with Jaco in Paris.....went with a date.....My mouth was agape, she was like whats going on..... We never went out again.

[@h.neillaugustine4807]

You were wise to distance yourself from the wench.

[@TheAdvancedMusic]

Wonderful, that ending though! Zawinul had to re-clap the ending after a few of the lads overshoot.

[@werners5191]

While I understand that everybody in this band was hugely talented, my memory of them becoming big, mainstream, was the Heavy Weather album, and the most amazing song on the album was Teen Town. So, the tipping point for Weather Report - the thing that made them a huge success - was Jaco.

[@tv4991]

this tune still takes my breath away, the way that orchestra hit comesoutta nowhere! BAM!!!!

[@KhalDrogo76]

greatest bass player ever

[@peterchattelin6721]

Jaco my goodness what a master!

[@tamievans8368]

Love 2 C Jaco smiling plus he knows he is killin' that sh-t!!!!

[@royleinfuss7222]

Manolo is just crushing it... mad scientist of percussion

[@philweingart9523]

The energy of this is just sick.

[@billhutchison7078]

Miss those days ❤❤❤❤.

[@ikeeptime]

This broadcast brought jazz fusion to a whole new (and surprised) and younger audience. Would not be surprised if sales of Heavy Weather shot up as a result.

[@RiveBassCovers]

Jaco got so into it that he just kept going hahahaha

[@weepeee]

I just LUV 3:25... I thought The Great John Francis says 'Get Down' but after reviewing it I've come to the conclusion that He may be talking to one of our brother I.A. guys sayin '' Fix That' ... Not sure. Either way Manolo, Acuna, Wayne, Zav,, AND Jaco absoLUTELY KILLIN IT. THX

[@estebanmartinezfragnaud9477]

sin comentarios , espectacular

[@niklasprytz6740]

Love the tempo!!!

[@MrMrh1958]

Niklas Prytz cookin’

[@Carehuea]

Prime Jaco just being his badass, genius self, smiling all the while...

[@denboe2894]

Knock me out with this video. It took a while to catch on to what was going on in here and the tonality... but, then it hit and I was floating on this stuff. So ethereal.

[@walcoman]

Mind boggling creative genius, nuff said 😎 👀 👅 👌 👍

[@matthewsachaullymce279]

This video proves that their talents are far beyond the sound and video qualities…. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@spiritjestertimecube8819]

this is so fucking hip, these guys were on fire this night!

[@kati1017]

So badass! 🎉

[@albertvangestal3696]

Manolo Badrena y Alex Acuña - percusionistas de primera.

[@Squirrelconga]

...I didn't realize that was Badrena! Looked like Jerry Gonzalez and I was trying to do math in my head to see if he was old enough! Lol

[@petercorbett3794]

This is absolute peak Report and in a strange way peak Pastorius. He went on to much greater stuff than this but he lost the naïveté! It happens to the best of us.

[@ufgatorsax]

I think that is Alex Acuna on congas. Great percussionist.

[@JC-zf6sx]

2:13 Ok, so what am I doing? Oh, yeah, let me stop my conga playing to get up and hit the drum that is completely indiscernible at the exact moment I hit it. Check. Ok, then I’ll just sit back down...and, ah...let me just adjust my little seat...and then back at it!

[@Emersonlakeorpalmer]

He hit it exactly on point tho

[@MrRon281]

Love this SO MUCH

[@zachacuna878]

If you’re invited to play your best, that’s what have to be done. Yes care about people what care more of what God will said about the gift of Music👆🏼

[@charlesrobinson7469]

1:58-2: 12, love how it all comes togther.

[@Emersonlakeorpalmer]

This part of the song is so perfect I wish I had the tabs for my bass

[@rdwatch]

Weather Report had perhaps some of the best works in the 1970s Fusion period. Heavy Weather and Black Market is up there with Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and On the Corner, Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, just to name a few.

[@DMH031956]

The "Jaco Shuffle" to the right.... :0)

[@moshibass]

Such a cool ending. Feels like they are going to play the whole head again but then it just stops. Sounds like a mistake for a second? Still awesome.

[@123zappafan]

TV show ending, sounded like they got the hook...

[@timalan5376]

There was, and always will be, only one Jaco. All the rest, including myself, stand back and stand by.

[@lucianbga3356]

impresionante lo que tocan ...

[@jamiepastman5594]

I watched again, it's Badrena. He gets up, thinking the tune is over, but there's still the bass riff to end it.

[@MonteCarloPoloCup]

it seems that Joe plays with the right hand the theme playing byJaco ... or am I wrong?

[@daftman420]

Yes, you are right. That was one of Jaco's complaints. Joe's synth would be playing over his basslines. Both had huge egos and don't want to be upstaged by the other /GK

[@WinstonGuitar]

Correct. In this song especially, the fact that they could keep up perfectly in sync on THAT bassline is rather a big deal. And, as stated below, they were both quite competitive.

[@theresa42213]

Monte Carlo ~ No, you're not wrong. My dad had this album, and l grew up listening to this, and the greatest music in the world! ................so yea, you're right! xD

[@Jaco4e]

Beast of pianist

[@valuablesandwich]

See, I'm a huge sucker for unison lines between instruments like this... as long as both are clear in the mix!

[@claudiasouza5747]

Jaco e seus irmãos de miusic!!!!!!!! I Love!!!!!!