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

Read "Vienna Nights: Live at Joe Zawinul's Birdland" reviewed by John Kelman


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 ...

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

Read "Vienna Nights: Live at Joe Zawinul's Birdland" reviewed by Jim Santella


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 ...

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Article: Reassessing

Miles Davis: In a Silent Way

Read "Miles Davis: In a Silent Way" reviewed by Trevor MacLaren


Miles Davis In a Silent Way Columbia 1969Recording in February 1969, Miles Davis seemed to pick up the vibe of what was going to go down that crazy summer. It was a tumultuous time as the sixties came to a close. First came the Manson Family, then the ...

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The Rise & Fall of the Third Stream

Label: Collectables
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Baptismal 2. Soul of a Village 3. The Fifth Canto 4. From Vienna, With Love 5. Lord, Lord, Lord 6. A Concerto, Retitled.

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Joe Zawinul: The Rise & Fall of the Third Stream

Read "The Rise & Fall of the Third Stream" reviewed by David Rickert


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.

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Mysterious Traveller

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Nubian Sundance; American Tango; Cucumber Slumber; Mysterious Traveller; Blackthorn Rose; Scarlet Woman; Jungle Book.

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Faces & Places

Label: ESC Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Search; All About Simon; Introduction to Tower of Silence; Tower of Silence; The Spirit of Julian

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Faces and Places

Label: ESC Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Search: All About Simon; Introduction to Tower of Silence; Tower of Silence; The Spirit of Julian 'C' Adderley; Familiar to Me; Cafe Andalusia; Good Day; Barefoot Beauty; Rooftops of Vienna; Borges Buenos Aires Part 1; Borges Buenos Aires Part 2; Siseya; East 12th Street Band

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Joe Zawinul: Faces & Places

Read "Faces & Places" reviewed by AAJ Staff


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 ...

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Joe Zawinul: Faces & Places

Read "Faces & Places" reviewed by Jim Santella


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 ...


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