Joe Zawinul and Syndicate - Live in Concert (1989)
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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2016
- Joe Zawinul - synthesiser
Carl Anderson - vocal
Gerald Veasley - bass
Scott Henderson - guitar
Cornell Rochester - drums
Leata Galloway - vocal
Bill Summers - percussion
0:04 March Of The Lost Children
10:00 Medicine Man
26:27 Black Water
31:50 Solitude (Duke Ellington)
36:17 Shadow And Light
42:49 Improvisation
47:00 Little Rootie Tootie (Thelonius Monk)
56:36 Carnavalito
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 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" [...]. 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" [...] Classically trained at the Konservatorium Wien, Zawinul played in various broadcasting and studio bands before emigrating to the U.S. in 1959 on a music scholarship at Berklee School of Music in Boston. [...] In 1961, Zawinul joined the Quintet led by saxophonist Cannonball Adderley. [...] In the late 1960s, Zawinul recorded with Miles Davis's studio band and helped create the sound of jazz fusion. He played on the album In a Silent Way, the title track, which he composed, and the landmark album Bitches Brew, for which he contributed the twenty-minute track, "Pharaoh's Dance", which occupied the whole of side one. [...]
Zawinul, along with other Davis sidemen Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock, was one of the first to use electric pianos and early synthesizers like the ARP 2600 in 1973's Sweetnighter. He was also among the first to use an electric piano, the Wurlitzer. He used the Fender-Rhodes thereafter, adding a wah-wah pedal and later the Mutron effect unit for a complex phased timbre. [...]
In 1970, Zawinul co-founded Weather Report with saxophonist and Davis alumnus Wayne Shorter (and later joined by Jaco Pastorius). [...] With their 4th album, Mysterious Traveller, the musical forms were now through-composed similar to classical music, and the combination of jazz harmonies with 1970s groove elements helped launch the band into its most commercially successful period. The band's biggest commercial success came from his composition "Birdland", a 6-minute opus featured on Weather Report's 1977 album Heavy Weather, which peaked at number 30 on the Billboard pop albums chart. "Birdland" is one of the most recognizable jazz pieces of the 1970s, covered by many prominent artists from The Manhattan Transfer and Quincy Jones to Maynard Ferguson, the Buddy Rich Big Band, and Jefferson Starship. [...] The song won him three Grammys. Weather Report was active until the mid-1980s, with Zawinul and Shorter remaining the sole constant members through multiple personnel shifts. The group was notable for helping bring to prominence not only pioneering fretless electric bassist Jaco Pastorius, but also other musicians, such as Alphonso Johnson and Peter Erskine. Shorter and Zawinul had already gone separate ways, after the recording of their "final" Sportin' Life, when it was discovered that they had to do one more album in order to fulfill their contract with CBS records. This Is This! therefore became the band's final album. Shorter participated despite being busy leading his own group, and Peter Erskine was also brought in again for this record, and played on most of the compositions. Victor Bailey played electric bass and guitarist Carlos Santana appeared as a guest artist on the album. [...] Zawinul became ill and was hospitalized in his native Vienna in August 2007, after concluding a five-week European tour. He died a little over a month later from a rare form of skin cancer (Merkel cell carcinoma) one month later.
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Unca Joe is too good for the untrained ear! He’s what keeps me loving music as he never rests on his laurels.
'' hats off Henderson ... PURE M / F 'er !!
I think this is rare footage of drummer Cornell Rochester with the band. Delighted to see it.
Saw this line up in London...was the first time I'd seen Zawinul....& also saw his last London gig at The Jazz Cafe....one of the best nights of my life!!
Scott Henderson - guitar love this metal jazz style of him ...real fusionist
Zawinul a genius which will live on for decades.
Versatile and inventive beyond words!
Medicine Man is a WILD rendition from the studio album!
The preview image is actually not the Syndicate, but the short lived Weather Update, with Steve Khan on guitar. Formed after Wayne Shorter left Weather Report. Good band, I saw them at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
yea - definitely Weather Update, i was there too but i don't remember any cameras, recording it - the loft music stamp -wasn't that the same gig that Joe did the solo gigs - ?
I had the extreme honor to see them play Live at The Blue Note in NYC! Just can't compare these guys to any other band ever. Stand alone Greatness!
Nice to find this.
Fantastic
vesley a monster ! thanks for upload . zawinul sustains me
Saw them in Aarhus the most amazing evening in my life too.... Love Zawinuls music
WOW. WOW. WOW. Thank you for posting! Medicine Man rendition is simply amazing!
Amazing singers & musicians !!!!!!! Thanks god !!!!!!
used to have this on VHS......superb!!!!!!
That tape warble really slaps at points
GREAT , GREAT STUFF !!!...
Love you Joe Z
Very nice!
Magnifica toda su obra tanto dentro como fuera de Weather Report.Impecable su concierto con Trilok Gurtu.
It was a great honor for me to spend some quality time with members of this legendary band during their Black Water World Tour vacation, in 1989, in Athens, Greece, and subsequently even stay in touch with the late Carl Anderson and Joe Zawinul, for years to come. RIP Joe, Carl. (I believe it's "Bill Summers" spelled correctly, on percussion and "Medicine Man" as that tune's title.)
That sounds very logical. Thanks, we changed it.
Scotty Mutherfucking Henderson! Badass! And so is the whole band, Joe was visionary musician, prophet of electric world fusion.
"Wir danken euch dass ihr hier geblieben seid; Einige." Unbelievable! I would have travelled all the way from the Netherlands to that theatre if I knew this band would be performing there!
I saw this Band 1990 in Zürich, the Rhythm Section was from the great Odean Pope Trio.
Great band
Genio!!!!!!
Bill Summers caballero! (amigo de Los Muñequitos de Matanzas)
Wow! Never seen joe wear glasses let alone these big nerd glasses haha! Great concert
Wrong opening-picture : Steve Kahn instead of Scott Henderson..
Thx very much for posting this. Had the good fortune to see this band in Copenhagen. Although I had to admit that while it was always a joy and a deep experience to see Zawinul live I was not sooo keen on the emphasis on vocals ;-)
bodhi heeren agreed: that singing part is definitely scary. I wonder who's idea was it? And why?
I like the Syndicate Albums very much but as many times as I listen to them, they just don't measure to the Weather Report Albums but because of the leader Joe Z they remain a great group! I just prefer the overall sound of WR, which IMO is the greatest Fusion Band Ever!
I feel the same way but we have to understand most of the original WR guys are gone and there is no Sax, so the sound is different but great anyway because of Joe Z!
@@stevekatz4372 - even each reincarnation of Weather Report could not really be measured against another, and it's amazing that no one really tried to copy them, I feel privileged to have lived in 'that time' I saw the band at every London gig from 1975 through to Joe's death -he was light years ahead of anyone else...and the people tat worked with him -he never wanted another sax after Wayne but i would love to have head him with Dave Liebman or Bill Evans ( sax ) or Paul McCandless...WR really was a sum of the parts...and of it's time RIP JZ, WS, VB and too many others - I miss you
joe and judas
+pgonzo98 Explain your comment please.
just a guess . . . Carl Anderson portrayed Judas Iscariot on Broadway and in the 1973 film of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Amazing singer either way and this is a great video. Thanks for posting it LOFTmusic.
Modernjazz1 jazz at he white house
Jazz at the white house
МАМА, А БОГ ЕСТЬ?
Nu, koneshno! :-D
Dont think the guitar player belongs in weather report!!!!!! So really cant watch this it bothers me.😡
- yes it's difficult, when Wayne left WR, Joe said he would never work with another sax player out of respect to Wayne, so guitar was an option Steve Khan is the some of a very famous songwriter from the 1940 Sammy Khan, maybe he should have found a trumpet player - who knows...yes but it is difficult to listen too...
It’s not Weather Report!