Live and Unreleased is a compilation of live recordings of the jazz fusion band Weather Report, released on Legacy Recordings in 2002. The tracks are taken from live performances that took place from November 25, 1975 to June 3, 1983. It is their third official live recording after the Japan-only Live in Tokyo from 1972 and 8:30 from 1979, although previous albums such as Heavy Weather and Night Passage also included occasional live tracks.
The discs are sequenced in non-chronological fashion, with songs from different line-ups cross-faded into one another. The compositions "In a Silent Way" and "Directions" had both been recorded by Miles Davis during the tenure of Josef Zawinul and Wayne Shorter in the Davis band.
Alphonso Johnson — bass on "Freezing Fire," "Cucumber Slumber," "Man in the Green Shirt," "Cigano," and "Directions/Dr. Honoris Causa"
Jaco Pastorius — bass on "Fast City," "Portrait of Tracy," "Elegant People," "Teen Town," "Black Market," "River People," "In a Silent Way/Waterfall," "Night Passage," and "Port of Entry"
Victor Bailey — bass on "Plaza Real," "Where the Moon Goes," and "Two Lines"
Chester Thompson — drums on "Freezing Fire," "Cucumber Slumber," "Man in the Green Shirt," "Cigano," and "Directions/Dr. Honoris Causa"
Alex Acuña — drums on "Portrait of Tracy," "Elegant People," "Teen Town," and "Black Market"; percussion on "Freezing Fire," "Cucumber Slumber," "Man in the Green Shirt," "Cigano," "Rumba Mama," and "Directions/Dr. Honoris Causa"
Peter Erskine — drums on "Fast City," "River People," "In a Silent Way/Waterfall," "Night Passage," and "Port of Entry"
Omar Hakim — drums on "Plaza Real," "Where the Moon Goes," and "Two Lines"
Manolo Badrena — percussion on "Portrait of Tracy," "Elegant People," "Teen Town," "Black Market," and "Rumba Mama"
Bobby Thomas, Jr — percussion on "Fast City," "Night Passage," and "Port of Entry"
José Rossy — percussion on "Plaza Real," "Where the Moon Goes," and "Two Lines"
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