caption wife associated_acts death_date death_place years_active |name birth_place landscape background birth_date instrument genre image article_title sons birth_name occupation
joe -lrb- freiburg/germany , 2007 -rrb- zawinul live with `` the zawinul syndicate '' maxine zawinul cannonball adderley , dinah washington , nat adderley , ben syndicate webster , weather report , miles davis , 11 september 2007 vienna , austria 1949 & ndash ; 2007 joe zawinul vienna , austria yes non_vocal_instrumentalist 7 july 1932 piano accordion , ewi , electric piano , keyboards : synthesizer , jazz music , world music , jazz fusion , romantic music , art joe zawinul 2007-03-28 live in freiburg.jpg joe zawinul
 anthony , erich and ivan josef erich zawinul musician , composer
joe zawinul

josef erich `` joe '' zawinul -lrb- july 7 , 1932 -- september 11 , 2007 -rrb- was an austrian jazz keyboardist and composer .
first coming to prominence with saxophonist cannonball adderley , zawinul went on to play with trumpeter miles davis , and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion , an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with elements of rock and world music .
later , zawinul co-founded the groups weather report and the world fusion music-oriented zawinul syndicate .
additionally , he made pioneering use of electric piano and synthesizers .
zawinul was named `` best electric keyboardist '' 28 times by the readers of `` down beat '' magazine .
a number of prominent musical artists have honored zawinul with compositions , including brian eno 's instrumental `` zawinul/lava '' , john mclaughlin 's instrumental `` jozy '' , warren cuccurullo 's `` hey zawinul '' , bob baldwin -lrb- musician -rrb- 's `` joe zawinul '' , chucho valdés 's `` zawinul 's mambo '' , biréli lagrène 's instrumental `` josef '' and toninho horta 's instrumental `` balada para zawinul '' .
zawinul 's playing style was often dominated by quirky melodic improvisations -- traversing bebop , ethnic and pop styles -- combined with sparse but rhythmic playing of big-band sounding chords or bass lines .
in weather report , he often employed a vocoder as well as pre-recorded sounds played -lrb- i.e. filtered and transposed -rrb- through a synthesizer , creating a very distinctive synthesis of jazz harmonies and `` noise '' -lrb- `` using all the sounds the world generates '' -rrb- .
