TagsTagsThe late great Joe Zawinul with his band at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1997. A slightly different version of this tune, “Zansa,” is on the excellent concert album 75: Joe Zawinul, recorded shortly before Joe’s death. RIP, Joe, we miss you. [Video]
If ever a musician deserved the title “genius,” Joe Zawinul did. His ground-breaking compositions and playing, with Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis and Weather Report, influenced generations of musicians—among them, myself. I saw him play many times, with Weather Report and with his later solo bands; we often crossed paths on ...