Joe Zawinul's 60th Birthday Party (with John McLaughlin) - Live at Messehalle in Tulln, Austria, 1992-06-12 [SBD][2CD][FLAC]

Josef Erich "Joe" Zawinul (July 7, 1932 – September 11, 2007) 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 world fusion music-oriented The 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'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 (i.e. filtered and transposed) through a synthesizer, a method or technique called sampling, creating a very distinctive synthesis of jazz harmonies and "noise" ("using all the sounds the world generates").



JOE ZAWINUL 60th BIRTHDAY PARTY
(Featuring John McLaughlin)
Live at Messehalle in Tulln
Austria, 1992-06-12

Sound Board Recording

SOURCE:

SBD>tape(unknown generation)>CD Transfer Phillips CDR 560>trade>AUDIO CD>EAC Secure Modus>Flac Frontend Level 6>Flac

SOUND QUALITY: A

LINE-UP:

Joe Zawinul (Birthday-Kid) - all keys (1-8, 14-15)
Niederösterreichische Tonkünstler (1)

The Syndicate (2-5, 7-8) :

Randy Bernson: electric-guitar
Gerald Veasley: electric-bass
Bobby Thomas: percussion
Rodney Holmes: drums

Guests:

John McLaughlin: acoustic guitar (6), el-guitar (7)
Wolfgang Puschnig: alto-sax (8-11)
Alpine Aspects + Amstätter Stadtmusik (9-11)
Bumi Fian: trumpet, Linda Sharrock: vocals, Salif Keita + Band (12-15)

Setlist:

CD 1

1. Gypsy 10.24
2. Patriots 05.50
3. Madagascar Jam 13.08
4. Rua Paula Freitas 05.57
5. Carnavalito 09.12
6. In a Silent Way 08.28
7. Two Lines 07.55
8. Monk's Mood/Little Rootie Tootie 08.35


CD 2

09. Alpine Aspect 07.25
10. Once in Your Lifetime 08.01
11. Deep River,Blue Mountain 08.17
12. Sumbaya 09.03
13. ???? 09.55
14. ???? 07.48
15. Nyana Fin 06.23


Format: FLAC

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