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Joe Zawinul
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Pianists · 1932–2007

Joe Zawinul

Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (1932–2007)

Born
7 July 1932
Vienna
Died
11 September 2007
Vienna
Country
Austria
Active
1949–2007
Record labels
Heads Up International
Discography
15 albums

Biography

Joe Zawinul was a jazz musician who played piano, musical keyboard, ARP Chroma and voice. Joe Zawinul was born on 7 July 1932 in Vienna and died on 11 September 2007 in Vienna. The music is usually filed under jazz, jazz fusion and soul. Record labels: Heads Up International. The discography here lists 15 albums, from “To You With Love” (1959) to “One People” (2022). Honours include Paul Acket Award, Amadeus Austrian Music Awards and Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna.

Josef Erich Zawinul ( ZOV-in-əl; 7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion 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, a musical genre that combined jazz with rock. He co-founded the groups Weather Report and The Zawinul Syndicate. He pioneered the use of electric piano and synthesizer, and was named "Best Electric Keyboardist" twenty-eight times by the readers of DownBeat magazine.

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Discography

Studio and live albums

To You With Love 1959 Money in the Pocket 1965 · ATCO Records The Rise & Fall of the Third Stream 1968 · Vortex Records Zawinul 1971 · Atlantic Dialects 1986 · Columbia My People 1996 · Cream Records Stories of the Danube 1996 · Philips Classics Mauthausen ...vom großen Sterben hören - chronicles from the ashes 2000 · ESC Records Faces & Places 2002 · ESC Records Live at the Munich Philharmonie 2003 · Live · TDK Mediactive Brown Street 2006 · Live · Heads Up International 75 2008 · Live · BHM Productions Absolute Zawinul 2009 · intuition
Complete 1962 Live Performances 2016 · Live
One People 2022 · Live · LaserLight Digital

Also plays on

Albums where Joe Zawinul is credited as a sideman

1959 What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! — Dinah Washington piano
1959 A Message From Birdland — Maynard Ferguson piano
1961 Naturally!: Nat Adderley Quartets — Nat Adderley piano
1961 Out of the Forrest — Jimmy Forrest piano
1962 Nancy Wilson / Cannonball Adderley — Nancy Wilson / Cannonball Adderley piano
1962 Cleanhead & Cannonball — Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson with The Cannonball Adderley Quintet piano
1963 Soulmates — Ben Webster & Joe Zawinul piano
1963 Nippon Soul: Recorded in Concert in Tokyo — Cannonball Adderley piano
1964 Cannonball Adderley’s Fiddler on the Roof: Selections From the Hit Broadway Show — Cannonball Adderley piano
1964 Live Session! — Cannonball Adderley & Ernie Andrews piano
1964 Live! — Cannonball Adderley piano
1965 Domination — Cannonball Adderley piano
1967 A Mann & A Woman — Herbie Mann & Tamiko Jones piano, arranger
1967 Live at Memory Lane — Nat Adderley piano
1968 You, Baby — Nat Adderley electric piano
1969 In a Silent Way — Miles Davis organ
1969 Alone — Bill Evans keyboard
1969 Country Preacher: "Live" At Operation Breadbasket — Cannonball Adderley piano
1969 Calling Out Loud — Nat Adderley electric piano
1969 Silver Cycles — Eddie Harris piano
1969 The Many Facets of David Newman — David Newman piano
1970 Bitches Brew — Miles Davis keyboard, electric piano
1970 Suite 16 — Yusef Lateef piano
1970 Purple — Miroslav Vitouš electric piano
1970 In Person — Cannonball Adderley feat. Nancy Wilson & Lou Rawls piano, electric piano
1971 Weather Report — Weather Report keyboard, piano
1972 I Sing the Body Electric — Weather Report keyboard
1973 Sweetnighter — Weather Report electric piano, synthesizer, piano
1974 Big Fun — Miles Davis electric piano, farfisa
1974 Mysterious Traveller — Weather Report percussion, piano, synthesizer, vocals, Rhodes piano, melodica

Standards written by Joe Zawinul

TitleKeyFormGroove
Mercy Mercy Mercy B♭ major AB · 20 Funk
Midnight Mood D♭ major A · 24 Jazz waltz

Member of

Weather Report 1970– · American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s

Awards

Frequently asked questions

What instrument did Joe Zawinul play?

Joe Zawinul is known for playing piano, musical keyboard, ARP Chroma and voice.

When and where was Joe Zawinul born?

Joe Zawinul was born 7 July 1932 in Vienna.

What are Joe Zawinul's best-known albums?

Albums in our database include To You With Love (1959), Money in the Pocket (1965), The Rise & Fall of the Third Stream (1968), Zawinul (1971) and Dialects (1986).

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