Joe Zawinul - Zawinul LP Atlantic SD 1579 Weather Report 1st Press Wayne Shorter
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Joe Zawinul - Zawinul LP Atlantic SD 1579 Weather Report 1st Press Wayne Shorter
Jazz Fusion Essencial one of the best....Double Image will take you right into Space
Label variant with "75 Rockefeller Plaza" address.
Music for two electric pianos, flute, trumpet, soprano saxophone, two contrabasses and percussion.
Track Notes:
A1: Dedicated to Herbie Hancock for his Honorary Doctorate at Grinnell University in Des Moines, Iowa.
A2: Impressions of Joe Zawinul's as a shepherd boy in Austria.
B1: A tone poem reminiscent of his grandfather's funeral on a cold winter day in an Austrian mountain village.
B2: A concept of what man thinks he is as opposed to what he really is.
B3: Joe Zawinul's first impression of New York when he arrived here as a boy on a ship from France.
Zawinul is the third studio album by jazzcomposer and pianist Joe Zawinul recorded in 1970 by Zawinul performing music arranged for two electric pianos, flute, trumpet, soprano saxophone, two contrabasses, and percussion. The album reached number 17 in the BillboardJazz album charts.
Conceptually, sonically, this is really the first Weather Report album in all but name, confirming that Joe Zawinul was the primary creative engine behind the group from the beginning. It is also the link between Weather Report and Miles Davis' keyboard-laden experiments on In a Silent Way; indeed, the tune "In a Silent Way" is redone in the more complex form in which Zawinul envisioned it, and Miles even contributes a brief, generous tribute to Zawinul on the liner. Two keyboardists -- Zawinul and the formidable Herbie Hancock -- form the underpinning of this stately, probing album, garnishing their work with the galactic sound effects of the Echoplex and ring modulator. Earl Turbinton provides the Wayne Shorter-like beams of light on the soprano sax, spelled by Wayne himself on "Double Image." The third founder of Weather Report, Miroslav Vitous, checks in on bass, and hard-bopping trumpeter Woody Shaw proves to be perfectly adept at the jazz-rock game. Two short-lived standards of the jazz-rock era, the aforementioned "Double Image" and "Doctor Honoris Causa," are introduced here, yet it is mood pieces like "His Last Journey" and "Arrival in New York" that with the help of tape-speed manipulation, establish the lasting, murky, reflective ambience.
Joe Zawinul could really make some magic on the keyboard. Zawinul is a natural outgrowth of the sonic explorations Joe had just previously explored on Miles Davis' In a Silent Way, not unlike such contemporaneous records as Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi and Chick Corea's Return to Forever, all of course made by people who played on that landmark record. Zawinul is perhaps sonically closer to Mwandishi, but still unlike it. Zawinul is a beautifully ethereal and spacey album, it's almost alien sounding. Zawinul, together with Herbie Hancock, conjure up a galaxy of magical, mysterious sounds on the keyboards, fit for listening to under a starry evening.
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