Jazz Articles about Joe Zawinul

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Black Market

by Jeff Winbush
June 14, 2016

As Weather Report returned to the studio to cut their next album the band was yet again in flux. Gone from 1975's Tale Spinnin' line up were percussionist Alyrio Lima and drummer Ndugu Leon Chancler. Zawinul explained the latest comings-and-goings in a 1976 interview, “We're always happy with the group, because if we're not happy, we change it. There are a lot of musicians out there in the world. All the people who have played with us are ...

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Miles Davis: In a Silent Way

by Nenad Georgievski
November 3, 2013

"Miles' audience isn't where it used to be but neither is his music" was used to market the new releases of Miles Davis' indefatigably changing music in the late 60's that caused seismic shifts in the world of jazz and completely had redirected it into new and fresh territories. In a career that stretched five decades Miles Davis did more than just become a star--this enigmatic 20th century icon fused an astonishing array of different musical styles, refused to be ...

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Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 16, 2010

Lussuria. Se ci fosse una legge che limita ad una sola parola le recensioni dei capolavori, questa sarebbe la nostra scelta per il cofanetto Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary, senza alcun dubbio. Per fortuna una legge del genere (per ora) non c'è e quindi possiamo aggiungere altre riflessioni per raccontare meglio la straordinaria importanza di Bitches Brew nel panorama delle arti di ogni tempo e per sottolineare il senso di meraviglia che questo splendido cofanetto ha suscitato anche in chi di ...

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Joe Zawinul - Absolute Ensemble: Absolute Zawinul

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 15, 2010

Il connubio fra improvvisazione e accademia non è mai stato semplice, checché ne dicano coloro che citano, un po' a sproposito, l'improvvisazione così come praticata nella tradizione accademica europea fino alle estreme propaggini del Romanticismo, e che dimenticano come radicalmente sia diversa l'improvvisazione codificata dal Canone africano-americano, soprattutto nei suoi legami non con una tradizione scritta bensì con una orale. Esperimenti come la cosiddetta Third Stream si sono presto ridotti a inerti involucri strutturali, gabbie eleganti e spesso intelligenti, difficili ...

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Joe Zawinul: Money In The Pocket

by Chris May
February 4, 2010

Recorded in late 1965, while keyboard player Joe Zawinul was still a member of saxophonist Cannonball Adderley's band, Money In The Pocket is a remarkable album--remarkable in that gives absolutely no hint of the shape shifts that would transform Zawinul's work a few years later. The first of three albums he recorded for Atlantic, it's a conventional mix of mid-1960s hard bop and soul jazz. Trumpeter Miles Davis' revolutionary In A Silent Way (CBS), recorded in early 1969, which featured ...

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Joe Zawinul: A Musical Portrait

by Jerry D'Souza
March 18, 2009

Joe Zawinul A Musical Portrait Arthaus Musik 2008

Joe Zawinul was a man of many parts. Player of keyboards, composer, vocalist, and boxing enthusiast: he rolled them all into one. All of these are given a close look by director Mark Kidel on A Musical Portrait.

Zawinul was born in Vienna and brought up playing classical music. But there was a far greater calling for him one that was nudged ...

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Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75

by John Kelman
March 13, 2009

Some artists play until they drop--not always a good thing--but for Weather Report co-founder/Zawinul Syndicate leader Joe Zawinul, his life was defined by a tough stoicism. Unlike drummer Elvin Jones, whose final days were tragic in the loss of his signature strength, the groundbreaking keyboardist gigged--despite the Merkel cell carcinoma that would result in his passing on September 11, 2007--until very near the end. Based on 75--taken from gigs recorded within two months of passing--there were certainly no indicators that ...