Live in Tokyo is Weather Report's

Weather Report

Weather Report was an American jazz-rock band of the 1970s and early 1980s. The band was co-led by the Austrian-born keyboard player Joe Zawinul and the American saxophonist Wayne Shorter...

 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

I Sing the Body Electric (album)

I Sing the Body Electric is the second album released by Weather Report from 1972. The album includes two new members of the band: percussionist Dom Um Romão and drummer Eric Gravatt. The last three tracks were recorded live in concert in Tokyo, Japan on January 13, 1972...

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

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

Personnel

• Josef Zawinul - Electric and acoustic piano
  Piano
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• Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
  
   - Saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
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• Miroslav Vitous
  Miroslav Vitouš
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   - Bass
  Bass (instrument)
  Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...
  
  
• Eric Gravatt
  Eric Gravatt
  Eric Kamau Grávátt is a jazz drummer who has played with McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Weather Report, and others.-Discography:With Julian Priester*Love, Love...
  
   - Drum
  Drum
  The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
  
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• Dom Um Romão
  Dom Um Romão
  Dom Um Romão was a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Noted for his expressive stylings with the fusion band Weather Report, Romão recorded with varied artists such as Cannonball Adderley, Paul Simon, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 and Tony Bennett...
  
   - Percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...