Remembering Weather Report
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Miroslav Vitous With Michel Portal
Remembering Weather Report
[ ECM Records / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 27 July 2009
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As the title suggests, Miroslav Vitous and his all-acoustic band (+ guest Michel Portal) pay tribute here to the formative period of that most loved of jazz-fusion collectives, Weather Report.
Miroslav Vitous was one of the founders of Weather Report and helped to shape that collective's early (and revolutionary) mix of enigmatic, free-flowing compositions & high-level improvisational dialogues, in which all the instruments enjoyed parity. It is this formative period that Miroslav salutes here on 'Remembering Weather Report' with some phenomenal playing from his all-acoustic band.
The obvious musical empathy between Miroslav + drummer Gerald Cleaver is a joy, while Franco Ambrosetti & Gary Campbell contribute inspired solos - as does guest Michel Portal; another iconic figure in the history of the music. Material, almost exclusively from Vitous' pen, alludes to Wayne Shorter's "Nefertiti" and to Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman", as well as to Miles Davis & Antonín Dvorák.
Miroslav Vitous - double-bass
Franco Ambrosetti - trumpet
Gary Campbell - tenor saxophone
Gerald Cleaver - drums
Michel Portal - bass clarinet
Recorded fall 2006 + spring 2007.
Tracks:
Variations on W. Shorter
Variations on Lonely Woman
Semina (in 3 parts)
Surfing With Michel
When Dvorák Meets Miles
Blues Report
