Joe Zawinul

Josef Erich Zawinul ( ; 7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) daa nyɛla Austria kiibori baŋda. O mini Weather Report ni The Zawinul Syndicate nyɛla ban laɣim kpa laɣinsi. O daa nyɛla ŋun di "Best Electric Keyboardist" bu pishi zuɣu din daa nyɛ "DownBeat magazine" nima ni daa ti shɛli. 

 Discography 

 As leader/co-leader 
  Recording date Title / Co-leader Label  Year released Notes 1959-09 To You With Love Strand 1961 As Joe Zawinul Trio 1963-09-20, 1963-10-14 Soulmates with Ben Webster Riverside 1963 1966-02-07 Money in the Pocket Atlantic 1966 1967-10-16, -211967-12-12 The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream Vortex 1968 1970-08-06 –1970-10-28 Zawinul Atlantic 1971 1985 Di•a•lects Columbia 1986 1988-05-20, -21 Music for Two Pianos with Friedrich Gulda Capriccio 1988 Produced by Wolfgang Hirschmann. WDR Big Band conducted by Jerry van Rooyen on 1 track. 1988?  The Immigrants Columbia 1988 As The Zawinul Syndicate 1989? Black Water Columbia 1989 As The Zawinul Syndicate 1992? Lost Tribes Columbia 1992 As The Zawinul Syndicate 1992 –1996 My People ESC 1996 1995-11, 1996-02 Stories of the Danube Philips Classics 1996 Commissioned by The Brucknerhaus 1997-05, 1997-11 World Tour ESC 1998 [2CD] Live with The Zawinul Syndicate in Trier and Berlin. Nominated to Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance. 1998 –2000 Mauthausen - Vom großen Sterben hören ESC 2000 Accepted a request for memorial music from the Mauthausen concentration camp community. Wayne Shorter on 1 track. 2000  –2002-03 Faces & Places ESC 2002 Partially live recorded in Sydney and Paris. Nominated to Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album. 2002-11-07 Midnight Jam ESC 2004 [2CD] Live at Zawinul's 70th birthday party at the Leverkusener Jazztage with WDR Big Band 2004-05-26 – -30, 2004-09-21 –2004-10-01 Vienna Nights: Live at Joe Zawinul's Birdland BHM/JVC 2005 [2CD / 1CD (JVC)] Live with The Zawinul Syndicate in Vienna. Dedicated to Thomas Klestil. 2005-10 Brown Street Intuition 2006 [2CD] Live recorded in Vienna with Victor Bailey, Alex Acuña, Nathaniel Townsley and WDR Big Band 2007-01, 2007-04, 2007-09 Absolute Zawinul  featured by The Absolute Ensemble Intuition 2009 Conducted by Kristjan Järvi. Partially live recorded in Vienna. Overdubs recorded in June 2007 and June 2008. Posthumous release. 2007-07-07, 2007-08-02 75 BHM/JVC 2008 [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.

Compilations
 Concerto Retitled (Atlantic, 1976)
 Joe Zawinul and The Austrian All Stars, His majesty swinging nephews 1954 - 1957 (RST, 1992)
 The ESC Years (ESC, 2011)

As leader of Weather Report
 1971: Weather Report (Columbia, 1971)
 1972: I Sing the Body Electric (Columbia, 1972)
 1972: Live in Tokyo (CBS/Sony, 1972) – live
 1973: Sweetnighter (Columbia, 1973)
 1974: Mysterious Traveller (Columbia, 1974)
 1975: Tale Spinnin' (Columbia, 1975)
 1975–76: Black Market (Columbia, 1976)
 1976–77: Heavy Weather (Columbia, 1977)
 1978: Mr. Gone (Columbia, 1978)
 1978–79: 8:30 (Columbia, 1979) – live
 1980: Night Passage (Columbia, 1980)
 1981: Weather Report (Columbia, 1982)
 1983: Procession (Columbia, 1983)
 1983: Domino Theory (Columbia, 1984)
 1984: Sportin' Life (Columbia, 1985)
 1985: This Is This! (Columbia, 1986)

Posthumous compilations
 Live and Unreleased (Columbia, 2002)[2CD]
 Forecast: Tomorrow (Columbia, 2006)[3CD & DVD-Video]
 The Legendary Live Tapes: 1978-1981 (Columbia, 2015)[4CD]

As leader of Weather Update
 Joe Zawinul and Weather Update (Pioneer/Geneon, 2005)[DVD-Video] – live rec. 1986 at the Munich Philharmonic hall. Posthumous release.

 As sideman 

With Cannonball Adderley
 Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (Capitol, 1962) - rec. 1961
 The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (Riverside, 1962)
 Cannonball in Europe! (Riverside, 1962)
 Jazz Workshop Revisited (Riverside, 1962)
 Nippon Soul (Riverside, 1964) - rec. 1963
 Cannonball Adderley Live! (Capitol, 1964) - live
 Live Session! (Capitol, 1964) - live
 Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler on the Roof (Capitol, 1964)
 Domination (Capitol, 1965)
 Great Love Themes (Capitol, 1966)
 Cannonball in Japan (Capitol, 1966) - live
 Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club' (Capitol, 1967) - rec. 1966
 74 Miles Away (Capitol, 1967)
 Why Am I Treated So Bad! (Capitol, 1967)
 In Person (Capitol, 1968)
 Accent on Africa (Capitol, 1968)
 Country Preacher (Capitol, 1970) - live rec. 1969
 The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra (Capitol, 1970)
 The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (Capitol, 1970)
 Autumn Leaves (Riverside [Japan], 1975) - rec. 1963
 The Sextet (Milestone, 1982) - rec. 1962-63
 Radio Nights (Night, 1991) - rec. 1967–68
 Money in the Pocket (Capitol, 2005) - rec. 1966

With Nat Adderley
 Naturally! (Jazzland, 1961)
 Autobiography (Atlantic, 1965)
 Live at Memory Lane (Atlantic, 1967) - live rec. 1966
 The Scavenger (Milestone, 1968)
 Calling Out Loud (CTI, 1968)
 You, Baby (CTI, 1969) - rec. 1968

With Miles Davis
 1969: In a Silent Way (Columbia, 1969)
 1969: Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970)
 1970: Live-Evil (Columbia, 1971)
 compilation: Big Fun (Columbia, 1974)
 compilation: Circle in the Round (Columbia, 1979)

With Yusef Lateef
 The Centaur and the Phoenix (Riverside, 1960)
 Suite 16 (Atlantic, 1970)

With Herbie Mann
 A Mann & A Woman (Atlantic, 1967) – also with Tamiko Jones. rec. 1966.
 The Beat Goes On (Atlantic, 1967) – rec. 1964-67

With Dinah Washington
 What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! (Mercury, 1959)
 The Two of Us (Mercury, 1960) – also with Brook Benton
 Live at Birdland (Baldwin, 1997) – live rec. 1962

With others
 Friedrich Gulda and his Eurojazz-Orchestra, Eurosuite / Variations (Preiser, 1967) - rec. 1966
 Trilok Gurtu, Crazy Saints (CMP, 1993)
 Victor Feldman, Soviet Jazz Themes (Äva, 1963) - rec. 1962
 Jimmy Forrest, Out of the Forrest (Prestige, 1961)
 Eddie Harris, Silver Cycles (Atlantic, 1969) – rec. 1968
 Sam Jones, Down Home (Riverside, 1962)
 Quincy Jones, Back on the Block (Quest/Warner Bros, 1989) – rec. 1988–89
 Katia Labèque, Little Girl Blue (Dreyfus, 1995)
 Salif Keita, Amen (Mango, 1991)
 David "Fathead" Newman, The Many Facets of David Newman (Atlantic, 1969) – rec. 1968–69

 Kundivihira 

 Biographies 





 Further reading 

 External links 

 Joe Zawinul's official website
 In-depth interview with Anil Prasad of Innerviews



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