LIVE IN TOKYO

Whilst I Sing the Body Electric offered an edited extract of this live set on this second side, this is a double album-length feast of fusion form the early Weather Report. It's still very much a band in the shadow of In a Silent Way/Bitches' Brew, but when you include some of the musicians who made those albums with Miles in your lineup I'd say you have a right to dip into that particular sonic universe. Brooding and slow, this is certainly not the easily digested, smooth Weather Report we'd come to expect from their later years, but it's still an interesting release which, like both the Miles Davis albums in question and other early studio releases from the group, rewards patient listening.