Jazz Articles about Joe Zawinul

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Joe Zawinul & the Zawinul Syndicate: Vienna Nights

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 27, 2006

Fin dai tempi dei Weather Report Joe Zawinul ha perseguito una sua personale interpretazione della world music, filtrata attraverso il jazz e l'elettronica, ma è solo con la fondazione del suo gruppo personale The Zawinul Syndicate che ha potuto dare libero sfogo alla sua visione musicale, spingendola all'estremo. Se la grandezza dei Weather Report stava nel bilanciamento tra le forti personalità dei suoi membri, ognuno apportatore di una propria personale concezione della musica d'assieme, che ha reso quell'avventura unica e ...

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Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: Vienna Nights: Live at Joe Zawinul's Birdland

by John Kelman
August 28, 2005

As good as keyboardist/composer Joe Zawinul's last album (the '02 studio effort Faces and Places) was, his latest proves that some music is really meant to be experienced live. It's not about stretching out, although Zawinul's latest edition of the Zawinul Syndicate does take the opportunity to expand on the five tunes from Faces and Places that take up nearly half of this hundred-minute, two-CD set. It's about the kind of energy that only happens in front of an audience, ...

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Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: Vienna Nights: Live at Joe Zawinul's Birdland

by Jim Santella
August 18, 2005

Recorded at Birdland in Vienna, Austria last May and September for his own label, Joe Zawinul's powerhouse unit gives this live audience quite a thrill. Keyboards, percussion, provocative bass lines, and evocative vocals fill the room with unique sounds.

Zawinul affects a vocoder air in conversation with Arto Tuncboyaciyan on “Do You Want Some Tea, Grandpa?" with impressive results. The slow, sensitive ballad reveals one side of the Zawinul Syndicate. Driving tirades and muscular fits of passion reveal ...

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Joe Zawinul: The Rise & Fall of the Third Stream

by David Rickert
May 10, 2003

The term “Third Stream" was coined to describe the marriage of classical and jazz music in composition and performance. Despite bordering on pretension, in most cases this ambitious movement created some of the worst records in history. Fans of either genre remained content to keep their music free from the perceived impurities of the other.

Third Stream music had more or less fallen by the wayside by the mid-sixties, but a chance meeting between Zawinul and composer ...

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Joe Zawinul: Faces & Places

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2002

Joe Zawinul wants us to know a secret, if you take the portrait in the liner notes at face value: fusion never died. Zawinul made his reputation at the keyboards with Miles Davis and soared to stardom as the guiding light of Weather Report, a pinnacle of jazz-rock fusion which the genre has rarely surpassed. Lately he's been delving into fusion of another sort, one that might be called “world music" without any of the ethnocentrism this term usually implies. ...

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Joe Zawinul: Faces & Places

by Jim Santella
October 1, 2002

At 70, Joe Zawinul can look back with a great deal of pride at his productive career. From Cannonball Adderley to Miles Davis, Weather Report, Zawinul Syndicate, and beyond, the Austrian-born artist has espoused many different aspects of the jazz form: always contemporary, and with a heavy emphasis on creative growth. Electronics play a major role on Faces & Places. So do languages and embedded cultural sounds from around the world.

The start of Zawinul’s career was ...

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Weather Report: Black Market

by Todd S. Jenkins
April 24, 2002

Another key turning point in the colorful evolution of Weather Report. Around the same time that Alphonso Johnson replaced founding bassist Miroslav Vitous in 1974, the band moved towards a new sound centered around electronic instruments and studio experimentation. The vital funk and soul grooves that Johnson brought into the band helped them pull off that extreme paradigm shift. Black Market is part of a reissue trilogy (along with Tale Spinnin' and Mysterious Traveller ) with which Columbia/Legacy honors the ...