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Joe Zawinul

Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (–)

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Birth nameJosef Erich Zawinul
Born()7 July
Vienna, Austria
Died11 September () (aged&#;75)
Vienna, Austria
Genres
  • Jazz
  • jazz fusion
  • world music
Occupations
InstrumentKeyboards
Years active–
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Musical artist

Josef Erich Zawinul (ZOV-in-əl; 7 July &#;– 11 September )[1][2] was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer.

First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, a musical genre that combined jazz with rock. He co-founded the groups Weather Report and The Zawinul Syndicate. He pioneered the use of electric piano and synthesizer, and was named "Best Electric Keyboardist" twenty-eight times by the readers of DownBeat magazine.[3]

Biography

Early life and career

Zawinul grew up in Vienna, Austria.

Accordion was his first instrument. When he was six or seven, he studied clarinet, violin, and piano at the Vienna Conservatory[4] (Konservatorium Wien). During the s he was a staff pianist for Polydor. He worked as a jazz musician with Hans Koller, Friedrich Gulda, Karl Drewo, and Fatty George.[5] In he moved to the U.S.

to attend Berklee College of Music, but a week later he received a job offer from Maynard Ferguson, so he left school and went on tour.[4] He then accompanied Dinah Washington.[6] He spent most of the s with Cannonball Adderley. During this time, he wrote "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", "Walk Tall" and "Country Preacher", and played electric piano.

As recounted in Zawinul's New York Times obituary, "It was uncommon then for a black bandleader like Adderley to hire a white sideman like Mr. Zawinul and touring could be problematic. 'I often had to sit in the bottom of the car when we drove through certain parts of the South,' Mr. Zawinul said in a interview with Anil Prasad of Innerviews magazine.

But, he added, with characteristic bravado, 'Those kinds of things never fazed me; I wanted to play music with the best, and I could play on that level with the best.'"[7]

At the end of the decade, Zawinul recorded with Miles Davis on In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew, as Davis established the genre of jazz fusion by combining jazz with rock.[2]

With Weather Report

In , Zawinul founded Weather Report with Wayne Shorter.[5] Their first two years emphasized a relatively open, group improvisation format similar to what Miles Davis was doing in a more rock oriented format.

However, Zawinul started making changes with their third album, Sweetnighter. Funk elements such as bass guitar and wah-wah pedal began to be introduced to the band's sound.

Ivan zawinul biography When on tour he now uses a laptop and the Korg digital recorder, a 4GB portable recording unit. Amusing and abrasive. The software on his laptop is Opcode Vision v2. Of course, I used a rhythm machine for live performance, but I played the bass lines mixed with comping with the left hand, and played melody and other comping parts with the right hand.

With the fourth album, Mysterious Traveller, the musical forms were composed similar to classical music, and the combination of jazz harmonies with s groove helped move the band into its most commercially successful period.

The band's biggest commercial success came from Zawinul's composition "Birdland" on the album Heavy Weather, which peaked at number 30 on the Billboard pop albums chart.

"Birdland" is one of the most recognizable jazz pieces of the s, recorded by The Manhattan Transfer, Quincy Jones, Maynard Ferguson, and Buddy Rich among others. The song won him three Grammys.

Weather Report was active until the mids, with Zawinul and Shorter remaining the sole constant members through multiple personnel shifts.

Shorter and Zawinul went separate ways after recording Sportin' Life, but it was discovered they had to do one more album to fulfill their contract with CBS Records. This Is This! therefore became the band's final album.

In , Zawinul was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music and on this occasion performed with a group consisting of Matthew Garrison, Torsten de Winkel, Abe Laboriel Jr.

and Melvin Butler.[8]

With The Zawinul Syndicate

The Zawinul Syndicate was a jazz fusion band formed in It evolved out of Weather Report.[9] Their style could be described as a combination of unusual grooves, driving and swinging rhythms and many borrowings from different music cultures.

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    • Zawinul himself stated that he gave the band its name due to a syndicate bearing more resemblance to a family than "just" a band.[10]

    After the death of Zawinul in , several members of the Zawinul Syndicate decided to reform and perform Zawinul's music live under their shortened name the Syndicate.[11]

    Several major members of the Syndicate over the years include Scott Henderson, Bobby Thomas Jr, Linley Marthe, Paco Sery, Manolo Badrena, Nathaniel Townsley, Sabine Kabongo, Gary Poulson, Richard Bona, and Victor Bailey.

    Stories of the Danube

    Main article: Stories of the Danube

    Zawinul also wrote a symphony, called Stories of the Danube, which was commissioned by the Brucknerhaus, Linz. It was first performed as part of the Linzer Klangwolke (a large-scale open-air broadcast event), for the opening of the Bruckner Festival in Linz.

    In its seven movements, the symphony traces the course of the Danube from Donaueschingen through various countries ending at the Black Sea. It was recorded in by the Czech State Philharmonic Orchestra, Brno, conducted by Caspar Richter.

    Death

    Zawinul became ill and was hospitalized in his native Vienna on 7 August ,[12] after concluding a five-week European tour.

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    • He died a little over a month later from a rare form of skin cancer (Merkel cell carcinoma) on 11 September [13][14] He was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering and his ashes buried in Vienna Central Cemetery. His wife Maxine had died earlier the same year. They were survived by their sons Erich, Ivan, and Anthony.[7]

    Discography

    As leader/co-leader

    Recording date Title / Co-leader Label Year released Notes
    To You With LoveStrand As Joe Zawinul Trio
    ,
    		Soulmates
    with Ben Webster    		Riverside
    Money in the PocketAtlantic
    ,
    		The Rise and Fall of the Third StreamVortex
    –
    		ZawinulAtlantic
    Di•a•lectsColumbia
    , Music for Two Pianos
    with Friedrich Gulda    		Capriccio Produced by Wolfgang Hirschmann.

    WDR Big Band conducted by Jerry van Rooyen on 1 track.

    ? The ImmigrantsColumbia As The Zawinul Syndicate
    ? Black WaterColumbia As The Zawinul Syndicate
    ? Lost TribesColumbia As The Zawinul Syndicate
    –
    		My PeopleESC
    ,
    		Stories of the DanubePhilips Classics Commissioned by The Brucknerhaus
    ,
    		World TourESC [2CD] Live with The Zawinul Syndicate in Trier and Berlin.

    Nominated to Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance.[15]

    –
    		Mauthausen - Vom großen Sterben hörenESC Accepted a request for memorial music from the Mauthausen concentration camp community.[16]Wayne Shorter on 1 track.

    –
    		Faces & PlacesESC Partially live recorded in Sydney and Paris. Nominated to Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.[15]
    Midnight JamESC [2CD] Live at Zawinul's 70th birthday party at the Leverkusener Jazztage with WDR Big Band
    – ,
    –
    		Vienna Nights: Live at Joe Zawinul's BirdlandBHM/JVC [2CD / 1CD (JVC)] Live with The Zawinul Syndicate in Vienna.

    Dedicated to Thomas Klestil.

    Brown StreetIntuition [2CD] Live recorded in Vienna with Victor Bailey, Alex Acuña, Nathaniel Townsley and WDR Big Band
    ,
    ,
    		Absolute Zawinul
    featured by The Absolute Ensemble     		Intuition Conducted by Kristjan Järvi.

    Ivan zawinul biography images For Subscribers. When I improvise there's no mind. You can see the ocean from everywhere. Partially live recorded in Sydney and Paris.

    Partially live recorded in Vienna. Overdubs recorded in June and June Posthumous release.

    ,
    		75BHM/JVC [2CD] Live recordings with The Zawinul Syndicate. A session at Zawinul's 75th birthday party and another TV session with Wayne Shorter at Veszprém. Posthumous release. Won Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.[15]

    Compilations

    • Concerto Retitled (Atlantic, )
    • Joe Zawinul and The Austrian All Stars, His majesty swinging nephews - (RST, )
    • The ESC Years (ESC, )

    As leader of Weather Report

    • Weather Report (Columbia, )
    • I Sing the Body Electric (Columbia, )
    • Live in Tokyo (CBS/Sony, ) – live
    • Sweetnighter (Columbia, )
    • Mysterious Traveller (Columbia, )
    • Tale Spinnin' (Columbia, )
    • – Black Market (Columbia, )
    • – Heavy Weather (Columbia, )
    • Mr.

      Gone (Columbia, )

    • – (Columbia, ) – live
    • Night Passage (Columbia, )
    • Weather Report (Columbia, )
    • Procession (Columbia, )
    • Domino Theory (Columbia, )
    • Sportin' Life (Columbia, )
    • This Is This! (Columbia, )

    Posthumous compilations

    As leader of Weather Update

    With Cannonball Adderley

    • Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (Capitol, ) - rec.

    • The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (Riverside, )
    • Cannonball in Europe! (Riverside, )
    • Jazz Workshop Revisited (Riverside, )
    • Nippon Soul (Riverside, ) - rec.

      Ivan zawinul biography wife Joe Zawinul: On the Creative Process. Is it a grandiose claim, or a case of a man with great talent and utter self-belief telling it like it is? Who it is that plays the instrument is more important. We didn't have that, and rather than rent in a digital track, we transferred things to track analogue, ADAT, and Pro Tools.

    • Cannonball Adderley Live! (Capitol, ) - live
    • Live Session! (Capitol, ) - live
    • Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler on the Roof (Capitol, )
    • Domination (Capitol, )
    • Great Love Themes (Capitol, )
    • Cannonball in Japan (Capitol, ) - live
    • Mercy, Mercy, Mercy!

      Live at 'The Club' (Capitol, ) - rec.

    • 74 Miles Away (Capitol, )
    • Why Am I Treated So Bad! (Capitol, )
    • In Person (Capitol, )
    • Accent on Africa (Capitol, )
    • Country Preacher (Capitol, ) - live rec.
    • The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra (Capitol, )
    • The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (Capitol, )
    • Autumn Leaves (Riverside [Japan], ) - rec.

    • The Sextet (Milestone, ) - rec.
    • Radio Nights (Night, ) - rec. –68
    • Money in the Pocket (Capitol, ) - rec.

    With Nat Adderley

    With Miles Davis

    With Yusef Lateef

    With Herbie Mann

    With Dinah Washington

    With others

    • Friedrich Gulda and his Eurojazz-Orchestra, Eurosuite / Variations (Preiser, ) - rec.

    • Trilok Gurtu, Crazy Saints (CMP, )
    • Victor Feldman, Soviet Jazz Themes (Äva, ) - rec.
    • Jimmy Forrest, Out of the Forrest (Prestige, )
    • Eddie Harris, Silver Cycles (Atlantic, ) – rec.
    • Sam Jones, Down Home (Riverside, )
    • Quincy Jones, Back on the Block (Quest/Warner Bros, ) – rec.

      –89

    • Katia Labèque, Little Girl Blue (Dreyfus, )
    • Salif Keita, Amen (Mango, )
    • David "Fathead" Newman, The Many Facets of David Newman (Atlantic, ) – rec.

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    References

    1. ^Carlberg, Robert (April ). "Joe Zawinul Interview". Electronic Musician. Berkeley, California: Mix Publications. p.&#;
    2. ^ abRichard S.

      Ginell. "Joe Zawinul". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 February

    3. ^[1]Archived 11 February at the Wayback Machine
    4. ^ abWalters, John L. (13 September ). "Obituary: Joe Zawinul". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January
    5. ^ abKernfeld, Barry ().

      Kernfeld, Barry (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Vol.&#;3 (2&#;ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries. pp.&#;– ISBN&#;.

    6. ^"Zawinul, Joe". Encyclopedia of World Biography, v. 28 (2nd&#;ed.). Detroit: Gale. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
    7. ^ abKeepnews, Peter (12 September ).

      "Joe Zawinul, 75, Jazz Fusion Pioneer, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 March

    8. ^"Joe Zawinul, 75, influential jazz keyboardist". . Retrieved 28 December
    9. ^"Joe Zawinul | Biography & History | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 August
    10. ^Bianchi, Curt.

      "Zawinul Online&#;» 20 Years of the Zawinul Syndicate". . Retrieved 22 August

    11. ^Bianchi, Curt. "Zawinul Online&#;» Tour Dates". . Retrieved 22 August
    12. ^Curt Bianchi (7 August ). "Joe Zawinul Hospitalized in Vienna". . Retrieved 11 January
    13. ^McDonald, Ray (12 September ).

      "Keyboardist Joe Zawinul Dies". VOA News. Voice of America. Archived from the original on 16 January Retrieved 2 January

    14. ^Schudel, Matt (12 September ). "Joe Zawinul, 75; Keyboardist Was a Pioneer of Jazz Fusion". The Washington Post. Retrieved 6 May
    15. ^ abc"All GRAMMY Awards and Nominations for Joe Zawinul".

      The Recording Academy.

    16. ^"Uraufführung der Orchesterfassung von Joe Zawinuls "Mauthausen … vom großen Sterben hören" im MuTh". MUK (in German). 25 October

    Biographies

    • Glasser, Brian (). In a Silent Way: A Portrait of Joe Zawinul. London: Sanctuary.

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    • Baumann, Gunther (). Zawinul: Ein Leben aus Jazz [Zawinul: A Life of Jazz] (in German). Salzburg; Wien: Frankfurt am Main; Residenz.

      Ivan zawinul biography wikipedia Joe Zawinul: On the Creative Process. Stories of the Danube. The backbeat I had originally on 'th Street Congress,' if it is not hit correctly it will never groove. We had take after take of live drums, sometimes as many as six track performances for one song.

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    • Yamashita, Kunihiko (). Joe Zawinul: On the Creative Process. Tokyo: Rittor Music. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;

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