Live and Unreleased (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Live and Unreleased
Type = Live album
Artist = Weather Report
Recorded = November 25, 1975 - June 3, 1983
Released = October 1, 2002
Genre = Jazz fusion
Length = Total: 131:31
Disc One: 61:13
Disc Two: 70:25
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6q3tk6axtkrd link]
Last album = "This is This!"
(1986)
This album = "Live and Unreleased"
(2002)
Next album = ""
(2006)

"Live and Unreleased" is a compilation of live recordings of Weather Report. The tracks are taken from live performances that took place from November 25, 1975 to June 3, 1983. Since its skill at live improvisation made up a large part of the band's appeal, its perhaps surprising that this is only their third official live recording (the previous two were 1972's "Live in Tokyo" and 1979's ""). Although this collection gives a very good representation of the breadth of the band's performances over a considerable period of time, the sequencing of the tracks can be confusing for the listener, since there is usually little or no relationship between one track (and its associated date, venue and band line-up) and the next.

Track listing

Personnel

*Josef Zawinul - keyboards, Synthesizer, Piano
*Wayne Shorter - saxophones
*Jaco Pastorius - Bass
*Alphonso Johnson - Double Bass
*Victor Bailey - Double Bass
*Chester Thompson - drums
*Omar Hakim - drums
*Peter Erskine - drums
*Alex Acuña - percussion
*Manolo Badrena - percussion
*Jose Rossy - percussion