Zawinul, Joe

Zawinul, Joe
▪ 2008
Josef Erich Zawinul 
      Austrian jazz musician

born July 7, 1932, Vienna, Austria

died Sept. 11, 2007, Vienna
was a leading composer and keyboardist in jazz-rock fusion music, most famously in the combo Weather Report, which he and soprano saxophonist Wayne Shorter led (1970–85). Zawinul was a successful jazz pianist in Europe before moving (1959) to the U.S. He became noted during his years (1961–70) playing in Cannonball Adderley's bluesy hard-bop Quintet, and he composed Adderley's biggest hit, “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” (1967). Zawinul also played electric piano on Miles Davis's pioneering fusion albums In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew (both 1969). With Weather Report, Zawinul played synthesizer and composed most of the combo's abstract, atmospheric repertoire; their popular albums included I Sing the Body Electric, Heavy Weather, and the Grammy Award-winning 8:30 (1979). He continued to experiment with electronic instruments and with African and Latin rhythms in the Zawinul Syndicate, the fusion combo that he formed in 1987. In later years he also operated a nightclub in Vienna.

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