Live in Tokyo (Weather Report album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Live in Tokyo
Type = Live album
Artist = Weather Report


Recorded = Shibuya Kokaido Hall, Tokyo, Japan, January 13, 1972
Released = 1972
Genre = Jazz fusion
Length = 88:29
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3vfixqegldfe link]
Last album = "I Sing the Body Electric"
(1972)
This album = "Live in Tokyo"
(1972)
Next album = "Sweetnighter
(1973)

"Live in Tokyo" is Weather Report's first live album released. It was recorded on January 13, 1972. It was one of five sold out concerts played in Japan during January 1972. "I Sing the Body Electric" contained several tracks that were edited for the studio album, but can be heard as they were performed, in their entirety, on this live album.

Track listing

#"'Medley: Vertical Invader/Seventh Arrow/T.H./Doctor Honoris Causa'" (Vitous, Zawinul) – 26:14
#"'Medley: Surucucu/Lost/Early Minor/Directions'" (Shorter, Zawinul) – 19:19
#"'Orange Lady'" (Zawinul) – 18:14
#"'Medley: Eurydice/The Moors'" (Shorter) – 13:49
#"'Medley: Tears/Umbrellas'" (Shorter, Zawinul) – 10:54

Personnel

*Josef Zawinul - Electric and acoustic piano
*Wayne Shorter - Saxophones
*Miroslav Vitous - Bass
*Eric Gravatt - Drums
*Dom Um Romão - Percussion

External links

* [http://www.binkie.net/wrdisc/Live%20in%20Tokyo.html Weather Report Annotated Discography: Live in Tokyo]