Bassist Jaco Pastorius introduced himself after a concert with the legendary words: 'My name is John Francis Pastorius III and I'm the greatest bass player in the world.' for keyboardist Joe Zawinul, together with saxophonist Wayne Shorter, founder of Weather Report, the band that uniquely united jazz and rock. It took Zawinul four bars to accept Pastorius. The performance at the jazz festival in
… Montreux in 1976 was one of the first with Pastorius on bass, but it turned out to be fully adapted to the complex material of Weather Report in two weeks. Besides well-known Weather Report songs such as Elegant People, Barbary Coast, Black Market, Gibraltar and Cannonball, Pastorius steals the show with his solo Portrait Of Tracy from his then yet to be released solo LP. Live At Montreux 1976 shows that Zawinul and his colleagues were then, and still are, way ahead of their time. (AD)more
