Search results for "Joe Zawinul"

Ben Webster & Joe Zawinul: Frog Legs (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 05, 09

Though the pairing of Ben Webster and Joe Zawinul may at first seem odd, the two were friends and for awhile roommate...

Joe Zawinul & Wayne Shorter: In a Silent Way (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music February 23, 09

The performance here is a loose dialogue between a soprano saxophone, played by Mr. Shorter, and a garden of electron...

Weather Report: American Tango (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 03, 08

Despite some popular belief, there was a Weather Report before Jaco Pastorius. It was quite a successful band, thank ...

Weather Report: The Juggler (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

(Editor's note: The seventh Weather Report record and the first featuring Jaco Pastorius as a full-time member of th...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: PETER ERSKINE

In the music world, but especially in the jazz world, everyone wants to know what everybody else is listening to. So ...

Weather Report: Mr. Gone (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music February 16, 08

Scores of jazz and fusion fans hated this album. Down Beat gave it one lonely star. Even many Weather Report fans des...

Trilok Gurtu: Ballad For 2 Musicians (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 06, 08

Crazy Saints was another interesting project from Indo-jazz percussionist Gurtu. He surrounded himself with Western j...

Weather Report: Unknown Soldiers (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 19, 08

Joe Zawinul composed this song in memory of an experience as a child when he and his brother found a dead soldier dur...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEATHER REPORT

Josef Zawinul and Wayne Shorter first played together in Maynard Ferguson's big band in 1959. They later crossed path...

Weather Report: Cannon Ball (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 19, 08

This song, which Joe Zawinul wrote for his former bandleader Cannonball Adderley, marks Jaco Pastorius's first record...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEATHER REPORT

Josef Zawinul and Wayne Shorter first played together in Maynard Ferguson's big band in 1959. They later crossed path...

Cannonball Adderley: Hippodelphia (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 03, 09

What can be said about Cannonball Adderley? Many things, his larger than life tone, his ability to play rapid solos...

Weather Report: Harlequin (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music June 15, 09

This album marked the second appearance on a Weather Report release for Jaco Pastorius, his first being Black Market....

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JACO PASTORIUS

Jaco Pastorius (1951-1987) was one of the most electrifying performers in the history of jazz music. Although his...

Weather Report: Scarlet Woman (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 05, 08

Mysterious Traveller really got things going for Weather Report. The album was the band's fourth release and started ...

Weather Report: Birdland (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

Birdland, the midtown Manhattan nightclub, opened in 1949 with namesake Charlie Parker as headliner. During its first...

Weather Report: Black Market (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 19, 08

With Black Market, Weather Report broke new ground unlike any fusion band from the 1970s. All the elements are presen...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEATHER REPORT

Josef Zawinul and Wayne Shorter first played together in Maynard Ferguson's big band in 1959. They later crossed path...

Weather Report: Teen Town (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 09, 08

It's a funny thing about a lot of us jazz-fusion fans. We can be somewhat contrarian when it comes to the success of ...

Weather Report: Black Market (live, 1979) (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 12, 08

It was no accident that Weather Report continued to thrive in the shrinking fusion world while other jazz-rock superg...

Weather Report: Volcano for Hire (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 12, 08

Weather Report's very first album, named Weather Report, came out in 1971. This album is also called Weather Report. ...

Weather Report: Blackthorn Rose (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 12, 08

Wayne Shorter's "Blackthorn Rose" is a beautiful duet performed with Josef Zawinul. The first part of the tune is a m...

Weather Report: Boogie Woogie Waltz (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music June 11, 08

Sweetnighter marked a change of direction for Weather Report. Through the appearance of some guest musicians, especia...

Weather Report: River People (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music June 18, 09

This is the Weather Report album that was famously dismissed by Down Beat magazine and given a one star rating. I rea...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JACO PASTORIUS

Jaco Pastorius (1951-1987) was one of the most electrifying performers in the history of jazz music. Although his...

Weather Report: A Remark You Made (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Just as mid-'70s jazz electronica struck rock bottom with Return to Forever's facile superficiality and the Head Hunt...

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