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Keyboardist and composer Joe Zawinul, who succumbed to cancer September 11, 2007 at age 75, left behind a half-century legacy of brilliant music that will last for generations. Born in Austria and originally trained in classical music, Zawinul embraced the jazz tradition at a young age and eventually pushed the art form to unprecedented limits via his two most innovative projects, Weather Report and later the Zawinul Syndicate.Despite the medical and physical challenges of his final months, Zawinul's regimen of composing and performing never let up. Indeed, one of his final performances proved to be one of his best.The aptly titled 75 was recorded in concert at a festival date in Lugano, Switzerland, on July 7, 2007 - the last birthday Zawinul would celebrate before his death two months later. The two-disc set is a final snapshot of this brilliant and dedicated road warrior of jazz, surrounded by his revered Zawinul Syndicate, a collection of stellar collaborators hailing from every corner of the globe. In addition to the Switzerland performance, 75 also includes a track recorded on a Hungary stage, where Zawinul is joined by legendary saxophonist and Weather Report co-founder Wayne Shorter.
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Reviews:
Worst Jazz Recording of the Year
I thought this recording was just awful. It is filled with dissonant sounds that made me wonder if there was something wrong with my CD player. I know that JZ doesn't write and play the most structured jazz tunes -- much to the contrary, but I couldn't find a tune on this double recording that I liked. It just meandered here and there, with very little melody. I love the old Weather Report recordings, like I Sing The Body Electric, but this recording has none of that focus. Other reviewers praised this recording, but I wonder if that is just out of sympathy for the now-departed JZ. My advice: pass up THIS Grammy award-winning CD. And a GRAMMY winner, too.
The Zawinul Syndicate finally won a Grammy for "Best Contemporary Jazz" with this sensational live recording. Due to the gig being part of a festival the concert is somewhat short. (I heard them at the Birdland in Vienna some 10 days earlier where the played for more than 2 hours). But it has all the classic Zawinul qualities, immense drive and fire and precision and fun and love for the music.
And if the "Zawinul Estate" succeds there will soon be more recordings of Zawinuls music with a new Band. ANd there must be TONS of live recordings too in the vaults.
Zawinul ( I always though of him as the most underrated living musician when he was still alive) may be dead but through his music he will live for a loooong time. On par with "World Tour"
This is my favorite of Joe's releases of the last few years. Madagascar is worth the price of admission alone - it has taken its place among the very best of Joe's recordings. To hear this guy keep up with Paco Sery at the ripe old age of 75 is utterly amazing. He checked out only a couple months later in his native Vienna, Austria. The way to go!
Zawinul was a maestro and this is a fitting way for him to go out! Every track is a gem and shows that at 75 he still had quite a touch and rapport with world musicians. Harmony Edge
Colorful, refined and charged with a force prior to the very notion of harmony: splendid |
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