Weather Report - Birdland

[alvids333]

Jaco Pastorius is my new favorite bassist

[YourFreeSelf]

@alvids333 Always has been

[Bassmastamike247]

This is one of my favorites. It is so well arranged

[scattanach1]

The piano part in this song? AWESOME. Carries the whole piece. Love it.

[TheIllegalKind]

im not gonna make a cheesy youtube joke but i mean how could some disrespect jazz at all llike even if i didnt like jazz (i do like jazz) but its like i would still respect it jazz is a style that even if you dont like it you should respect it

[littledrummerboi3]

@TheIllegalKind i see it nowwwwwww

[TheIllegalKind]

@littledrummerboi3 i meant 4/4 not 4/ i dont know that was a typo im just saying it is so easy to feel 4/4

[docmidnight]

142 people think "Music" is a thing you encounter in elevators and grocery stores.

[TrollFredrik]

Oh how I would love to play this song again. The problem is I've forgotten most of it and there aren't many friends of mine who enjoys playing this kind of music..

[rtkramer36a]

I want this video on my OT-330 unit.

[littledrummerboi3]

whts the counting time??

[rocky1rocky2]

@littledrummerboi3 4/4

[littledrummerboi3]

@rocky1rocky2 thx broddyy

[TheIllegalKind]

@littledrummerboi3 4/ how can you not feel that

[jacobsteingart]

Jaco Pastorius is an absolute beast.

[Lulzorz125]

we're playing this song in our jazz band. IT'S SO DAMN HARD TO PLAY!!!

[SpookieTheGhost]

@Lulzorz125 hey me too! Ive never heard it before so its kinda hard to play! I play alto sax

[nomaddrunk]

@SpookieTheGhost I play tha bass and jaco is hard to cover !!

[djazr]

@Lulzorz125 hahaha i couldn't agree more. the rhythms are so whack

[imortal187]

@Lulzorz125 How long have you been playing? And which instrument? I always found this tune to be a standard, being that it isn't too challenging. Maybe I could shed some light on why you're having trouble?

[Lulzorz125]

@imortal187 lol actually I said that because I just got it, but now that I've played it a little it's quite easy. Actually very easy considering I play trombone.

[c0d3x001]

@Lulzorz125 lets just say it's so damn awesome to play... :)

[Lulzorz125]

@imortal187 also, we're playin tiger of san pedro. /watch?v=yzNg4j-EYYE

trumpets are havin a hard time with it, but for trombone it's ok

[littledrummerboi3]

@Lulzorz125 not rlly my jazz band did it!

[Lulzorz125]

@Lulzorz125 I TAKE THAT BACK THUMBS DOWN THAT COMMENT DAMMIT. IT'S THE EASIEST FRICKEN SONG EVER!!!!

[flytieabc]

Saw the live more than 30 years ago, wow. Still classic!

[justicejay86]

maynard fergusons sounds way better...

[gospodin69]

Thank you YouTube & contributors for putting all this accessable to those who lost their record

collections through unforseen circumstances years ago ......

[FrenchPolished]

Read this now and laugh, but in time, you will see its true. In time, this video will have more views than Justin Biebers most popular song.

It may take 10, 15, 20 or even 100 years, but it will happen. Weather Report brings permanence. Durable relevance. This song is a granite monument to the art of making music. People will always watch. The Beibers are the cultural equivalent of a fart. They command everyone's attention for a bit, but in time, they're forgotten.

This remains, forever.

[TheIrishlad12]

wayne shorter...always amazing

[pmoore148]

I appreciate it!!...For real. First heard this song at 14. 49 Now still love this song. Jaco is the Man!!!!!

[ilovethetwins1]

This is just so awesome. Birdland is one of my favorite songs. I wish that there were more people that appreciate this type of stuff.

[jimmiow]

awesome

[tripudium17]

Thanks for posting this!

[lelopez86]

Wow. I had no idea Chewbacca the wookie could play the drums.

[yeroushalmi]

@palle016 who's on sax?

[pupapupaable]

@yeroushalmi Waine Shorter

[audaceinfuga]

PETER AND JACO AMAZING !!!!!!!!

[dster9999]

Wish I could go back in time and kick the crap out of the bouncer that killed Jaco.

[BOOTSYISFUNKGOD]

Intro guitar sound・・・・No! bass sound!!!!

[MegaDumbdog]

Jaco played that same beat up looking bass for years and years, Used to carry it around with him in South Florida, so he could sit in.

[Fijster]

That drummer grew his own shirt!

[jwb4291]

who rips out their frets 10 minutes before going on stage? JACO DOES

[GregMagDrums]

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[littlebd7]

It took me ages to work out that the drummer wasn't wearing a shirt... He is one hairy motherfucker.

[DaTroof93]

Am I wrong or is Zawinul way out of tune at 4:45?

[zvucnjak]

@DaTroof93 Maybe not "way" out, just out the way he wanted...

[zvucnjak]

@DaTroof93 You have much to learn, young Padawan... :))))))))

[alexjrmarino]

@DaTroof93 He plays something so funky ,you can't even digest it... but it's ok, you have the whole time in the world, it's a genius move by a genius man..So you see it's not easy to dig it

[DaTroof93]

@alexjrmarino do you play an instrument?

[alexjrmarino]

@DaTroof93 Yes, I play the piano... And you obviously are new to jazz ?

[DaTroof93]

@alexjrmarino yeah obviously...

[jryuwah]

@DaTroof93 I believe it happened on accident. It bugs me too... I wish it didn't happen like that.

[kmithy]

3:55

[sfrance783]

ahm ok..

[swankrecords]

superb

[Technobanana]

Sims

[MrAdam1234567891011]

i thought this was a string cheese song

[francoroxo]

Who´s in the drums?

[GaribaldiInTheMaking]

@francoroxo Alex Acuna

[masa7dera]

@GaribaldiInTheMaking on drums Peter Erskine!!

[GaribaldiInTheMaking]

@masa7dera really? wow. i assumed it was acuna like the album....thanks!

[12345adir]

jaco and shorter, that cant be bad.

[andreamalaguti64]

Hey, who was disputing it?

[Godaiseirei]

bro is hanging waaay behind the beat. man that's funky. I wish I had that timing that makes everything you play funky like that.

[andreamalaguti64]

Jaco is great, but, for those who did not notice, the bass was not exactly fretless... (that does not anything from him, of course).

[15000volts]

@andreamalaguti64 this one wasn't, because playing those harmonics in the beginning are hard as heck in a fretless, so he chose to play this song on a fretted. he could very well rock the socks out of a fretless when he wanted

[ffej980]

Music... Magic... Perfection...the best...what a groove

[indyrocker9]

@ethanbass100 Well, he may have been playing the bass he usually did, which was a fender jazz bass. He ripped out the frets and filled the slots in with wood filler so you could still see where the notes were. In a video this unclear it's hard to tell.

[DrObscura88]

He really hates that microphone.

[kualjo]

What a devastating groove! I can't breathe!

[snacktical]

THIS IS HOW YOU SEX

[4sportykiddos]

this is awesome!

[Dropkickewok]

I jerked off before watching this video... shoulda waited.

[karstam100]

@Dropkickewok Actually you should have thought twice before you posted but I'm sure for you thinking once is a chore which requires some nap time afterward.

[Dropkickewok]

@karstam100 i'm not sure i follow, kind sir.

[karstam100]

@karstam100 My point exactly!

[Crodon]

@karstam100 Did you just comment on your own comment?

[leftclickben]

@Crodon I'd say he clicked through from the YT message that notified him of Dropkickewok's response, and it showed his original comment with Dropkickewok's response under it and indented. Then he clicked "Reply" and it made it a reply to his original message, not a reply to the reply.

[shadowsmaster194]

@Dropkickewok DEADASS

[whenmyguitar]

Thank you very much!

[BTC141]

wow, i remember when this vid only had thirty thousand hits. amazing. weather report rule. gotta love 'em.

[ShakeYourCarBass]

You know when jaco starts walking during the chorus? Could someone tell me what he is playing? Or at least the changes?

[shrigg]

YES! Jaco played his FRETTED '60 Jazz Bass for this tune. A rare moment well captured!

[bad1y2k]

Joe Zawinul was not only a gifted musician, he was also a talented songwriter. He wrote "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. as well.

[pacrimco]

Weather Report, probably four of the gretatest musical talents of their day and for the future as well. "Birdland" will outlast time. It doesn't get any better than this.

[Spearhead56]

@vistvan62 Charlie Parker didn't write this tune. Joe Zawinul wrote it and named it as a homage to Bird.

[anonymousandunwashed]

Hi Vanessa!



[captainpiccard]

the simpsons brought me here...

[foggee89]

6:52 and in the drums.....yogi bear!

[mobilesuitZer0]

This is....NIGHT COURT!

[Carrgj1]

this on acid is a bad trip

[bil1026]

jaco pastorius on the fretless bass. jaco was the greatest artist in the history of bass guitar. stanley clarke was not far behind of course.

[NtropyPyroductions]

@bil1026 How 'bout Mingus?

[jeleopard]

@NtropyPyroductions

Mingus didn't do bass -guitar-.

[TedRob1958]

@bil1026

I was lucky enough to have seen them both, Jaco with Weather Report in Manchester Freetrade Hall about '78 and Stanley Clarke in Erics in Liverpool in '77 0r '78. Both were (are) influential in a way that not many other bass players could be.

[bil1026]

@TedRob1958, thanks for your reply.

great years for both of them. you are very fortunate.

i saw stanley 1977 w/ chick correa & return to forever in boulder. again with his own group in santa cruz, ca 2007, mostly on the upright.

i saw jaco in 1984 at the blue note in nyc. he was well into his snortations by then, but still very awesome looping with himself on then-new gear. starting at 2am until 4:30!

check out charnett moffett, and dan robbins -- both amazing bass players not in the limelight.

[johnedmunddols]

@bil1026 Yes He really was something special. He is sorely missed.

[swankrecords]

@bil1026 would you consider Marcus Miller as one of the best? The youtube of Marcus Miller - Blast! is impressive.

[KamiDisturbed]

@bil1026 if you have to take a bassist of nowadays genre bands like metal and pop bands and stuff i would pick definetly Ryan Martinie... Hes genious, actually of all bassist i like him the best, but who was most inspiring and all of all time it definetly would be jaco.... but ryan is the inspiration of nowdays, though really hard one to catch. no solo videos no nuthin, but most of people ive seen in youtube have started bass playin just because of mudvayne and him...

[priamyvate]

@bil1026 Jaco is my second favourite, sadly, i do rate Les Claypool more

[theCheesemonger]

@bil1026 Actually it's a fretted bass on this tune. He had two 1960s sunburst jazz basses. You can tell this is the fretted one when he does the pinch harmonics.

[bassistdc]

@theCheesemonger I did a little research and...You are correct Sir!!

[vistvan62]

-THANK YOU SO MUCH, THIS IS AN INTERESTING PIECE OF JAZZ MUSICE..

-DO YOU KNOW WHEN WROTE PARKER THIS TUNE?

[remo07bassclot]

JACO is god...........SERIOUSLY

[djdjany]

@remo07bassclot You're damn right !!!!!

[Bonamassaking]

@remo07bassclot Can't argue with that statement!

[DollyDagger2011]

This is one of my favorite songs by this group. Only jazz lovers know about this group. My brother used to keep me awake at nite listening to this group. I used to think they were really far out!! This was back in the "Disco" era.

[pitill64]

pastorius bassiste du siecle

vue concert pastorius st jean de luz annee1982

souvenir indelebil!!!!!!

j'adore.....

[frozenevil22]

Hey i'm just wondering if any1 knows the music to the walking line uses in this version (it's swung and he walks). I would transcribe it myself but i left my equipment at home and now im at college =/ and im too lazy =] i got alot of it by ear but there's a few notes here or there i can't hear too well/put a name to them.

[SirDizzyFingers]

Love Jaco, hes the best

[kevin104z]

i've seen weather report several times..the 1 time i saw them w/ jaco i was front row,right in front of him...let me tell ya.i'll never forget that..and josef,u were and r the man..i hope u and jaco r jamming!!!!

[dontneednomofovhs]

@kevin104z i certainly hope they are. if only they were recording it...

[tbhsul]

@playswithknives you can say what you want that hairy motherfucker can play!

[Zackr27]

Jesus

Got enough keyboards?

[11hoosier11]

Anyone know if Joe Z received his due in royalties? So many groups played Birdland that I would think he'd have received a "bunch."

[irietoy]

That's the famous Jaco Pastorius on Bass. It's a shame he is no longer with us.

[BeatleDakota72nd]

Seen that tour at the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, Pa., nice...

[fabracator2]

I'm in a wheelchair, and play guitar, & bass to all the up beat tempo's that I can listen too. The 30's & 40's big band is some of my favorite... Jaybird in the chair..

[nickeftink]

playing this in jazz band right now at my highschool. So fun

[thegoldrisk]

huayjazz, you are absolutely right. That was a statement of passion. I agree completely.

[JefferstChmilst]

Played this in high school jazz band. Our drummer was insane.

[GapperFly]

...orgasm

[JoeGarageBoc]

mi piace molto, il più grande bassista, mi chiedo se abbia mai suonato con il piu grande chitarrista, un tale Patrick Bruce Metheny

[TheJdeleon1214]

Awesomeness I get to play bass for Jazz band this year at school and we're playing this song!

[radbassist23]

@TheJdeleon1214 Same! I get to play it on electric bass...PURE AMAZINGNESS!

[wpcartera]

This was hell of a concert, and man for it to be out on you tube is really great.

[PC4TW]

perfect bass / perfect saxe / perfect drums

8D

Love it

[fenderzag]

the top of the tops ... unforgettable Jaco !!

[MrEvilDrPorkChop55]

@gridy999 It's a #9 chord, if it's the major chord with the b3 (#9) on top

[bartelhulst]

just read that this concert is now out on double CD :-)

[zuperduperguy]

7(#9)

[josephortizgarcia]

Around 1976-79, I saw WR open for Earth, Wind & Fire at Madison Square Garden. It was wonderful!

[NachyoLulz5596]

Am I a schmuck for liking the Maynard version more?

[thumper0417]

@NachyoLulz5596 - Yes you are..........just kidding. Everybody takes something away different from music. As long as you recognize the artistry for what it is.

[playguitarlars]

more keys, and less tape on the drums and cymbals ERSKINE for Pete's sake...

The 1970s recording and sound engineers were perplexed trying to get rid of drum Ring. It was the drummers fault every time. Open up the drums, LET THEM RING, and tell the drummer to HIT THE DRUMS HARD!! That's how you get good drum sound. Then add a touch of compression in post production...

[jordanxrola]

I absolutely love this song! It's so catchy lol my high school band is playing this for concerts an such :)

[up55down]

erskine is great on the skins

[m1kk3l2]

Jaco's like: "Let me sing with you, clarinet!"

And Squidward is like: "NO WAY!"

And the clarinet is like: "Bloo dub dob, bloo dub dob, ehh dooooo!!"

[Conwaya321]

@m1kk3l2 its a soprano sax not a clarinet

[1969vdez]

RIP Joe Zawinul.

[Yalsmal]

This is pastorius' jazz.

[thegoldrisk]

No offense, but Jaco is the one who will be remembered. He's the legend.

[Huayjazz]

@thegoldrisk

Well, let me disagree with you, man. But Joe Zawinul is a legend jazz pianist, a pioneer, a master creative mind. Wayne Shorter is a jazz legend since much before Weather Report. He played with Miles Davis! And if the drummer is Alex Acuna, he's relevant today! If the drummer Peter Erskine, he's a legend, too! Jaco was a genius, yes, but his tragic and early death doesn't make him more genius or any of these other geniuses.

[pianofan2204]

@thegoldrisk

and Joe ;-)

[ecojot]

is that Jaco Pastorius on bass?

[jlimproj]

@ecojot yes... lol

[JorrHero]

@ecojot it's a bid of a shame you have to ask....

[DOREMISOLO]

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[wontollawolf]

HELL ! First thing it crossed my mind was : Shit ! Van Hallen is playing with Weather Report !! Then , I calmed down . But the piece is awsome , I have the album, but this is the first time when I see this on video . Great !! Thanks !

[Cayke1]

An OK take on the classic Manhattan Transfer song - much better with vocals though (as per original) and could do with some 'hot' dancing (instead of boring jam stuff)

[Stoutlandish]

@Cayke1 Actually, Manhattan Transfer did the cover of Weather Report, not the other way around.

[Erik3141592]

@Cayke1 Learn your facts!

[GODMONSTERRARGH]

@Cayke1 *facepalm* Why do you try and analyse things you have no idea about?

[Ausiz]

@Cayke1 Actually the dude who plays keyboards here in the clip (Joe Zawinul) is original composer of this song and this is his band Weather report. Manhattan transfer only did cover of this song...

[macboiguy]

@Cayke1 wanker

[techdeckpro1115]

@playswithknives I like the sweater the electric bass player is wearing

[rjqg327]

@playswithknives good for you/cool beans

[2006willsanders]

The beginning of the synth age!

[MikeeDustBunny]

Pastorius RULES!!!

[kcnittel]

I'm getting old, like to go back in time ;-)

[bassbreed]

I was there... I loved it... still do.

[Cicisthebeast]

Marching Band! :D Thumbs up if you're doing this song in your show this year