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Joe Zawinul |
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Name: Joe Zawinul
| Nee: |
Josef Zawinul |
| Born: |
7 Jul 1932 |
| Origin: |
Vienna, Austria |
| Instruments: |
Piano, Keyboard |
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| Joe Zawinul is one of the front runners in the development of jazz fusion along with Chick Corea, John McLaughlin and Miles Davis. His band, Weather Report, consisted of Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Alex Acuña and Manolo Badrena.
Zawinul, along with Corea, was one of the first to integrate electric pianos and early synthesizers such as Bob Moog's minimoog into jazz. He is still a prominent artist and composer in the jazz community.
During a nine-year stint on keyboard with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Zawinul wrote the hit 'Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.' He also composed 'Walk Tall' and 'Country Preacher,' the latter a tribute to U.S. Civil Rights Movement leader Rev. Jesse Jackson. In this title cut to the Quintet's popular 1969 album release, Austrian-born Zawinul demonstrated a sophisticated and intimate understanding of the African/African-American concept of cool, of motion and interval. When 'Country Preacher' debuted at a live recording session in Chicago at Jackson's Operation Breadbasket, it elicited enthusiastic cheers of immediate recognition from the mostly African-American audience. |
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