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Scott H. Thompson (Press Release)
October 27 & 28, Rose Theater in Frederick P. Rose
Hall
New York, NY
(September 14, 2006) Joe Zawinul and his band The Zawinul Syndicate
will present an electrifying performance combining elements of jazz,
world music and rock on October 27 & 28 at 8pm in Frederick P. Rose
Hall. This concert will feature one of the most exciting electric
jazz bands on the scene today, consisting of multi-instrumentalists
and vocalists.
Joe Zawinul is best
known as the co-founder of the jazz super band Weather Report. Mr.
Zawinul is also known for his collaborations with Miles Davis and
Cannonball Adderley. He is said to be one of the founding fathers of
fusion jazz. With his current band, Zawinul Syndicate, he continues
the forward-thinking movement of electric jazz and promises a night
to be remembered. “
Born
in Austria, Joe Zawinul emigrated to the US in 1959. He joined alto
saxophonist Cannonball Adderley in 1961 for nine years and wrote
several important songs, primarily the slow and funky hit “Mercy,
Mercy, Mercy,” which reached the top on the Billboard magazine pop
chart in 1967.
After releasing his debut solo album on Atlantic in 1970, Zawinul and
saxophonist Wayne Shorter put together what was arguably the most
important jazz group of the 1970s, Weather Report. Drawing on the power
and theatricality of rock and R&B, while maintaining allegiance to jazz
and the pure spirit of improvisation, they tapped into the so-called
“fusion” movement of that decade while carving out their own unique
niche. Though band members came and went, the group’s spirit prevailed
over the course of 17 albums, including the groundbreaking Black
Market and the enormously popular Heavy Weather, which
included Zawinul’s infectious song “Birdland.” That song, in versions
by Weather Report, Manhattan Transfer and Quincy Jones, won separate
Grammy awards in three successive decades. Weather Report itself won a
Grammy for its momentous
live
album, 8:30.
In
1985, after he and Shorter finally agreed to go in separate musical
directions, Zawinul continued to create adventurous new grooves in the
group known as Weather Update and then the Zawinul Syndicate, whose
albums have included the Grammy-nominated My People in 1996 and
the two-CD, Grammy-nominated World Tour in 1998. Other special
projects have included an adventurous solo album, Dialects
(1986), and work as producer and arranger on Salif Keita’s landmark
album, Amen (1991). Meanwhile, as another tributary of his
creative life, Zawinul has also pursued classical composition, writing
his ambitious “Stories of the Danube” in 1993 and working with renowned
classical pianist Friedrich Gulda. His special solo project “Mauthausen,”
released in Europe in 2000, is a memorial for the victims of the
Holocaust, and was performed on the site of the Austrian concentration
camp after which it is named.
Zawinul has
honorary doctorates from Berklee School of Music, and is the official
Austrian goodwill ambassador to 17 African nations. In January 2002,
Zawinul has received the first International Jazz Award, co-presented
by the International Jazz Festival Organization and the International
Association of Jazz Educators. In 2002, he released the CD Faces
and Places.
Cadillac
is the Lead New York Sponsor of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Jazz at Lincoln
Center proudly acknowledges its 2006-07 sponsors: Altria Group, Inc.,
Bank of America, Bloomberg, The Coca-Cola Company, Time Warner Inc., XM
Satellite Radio.
Brooks Brothers is
the official clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
BET J is proud to
partner with Jazz at Lincoln Center to present the television series
Journey with Jazz
at Lincoln Center.
For more
information please visit
www.jalc.org
Fusion Revolution: Zawinul Syndicate
Joe Zawinul Live in New York 2006
Joe
Zawinul (keyboards/vocals),
Linley
Marthe (bass), Jorge Bezerra Junior (percussion), Paco Sery (drums),
Clovis Nunes Correa (guitar) and Aziz Samaoui
(vocals/percussion) make up this great group.
Tickets
for Fusion Revolution: Zawinul Syndicate are $30, $50, $75,
$100, $120 and can be purchased at the Jazz at Lincoln Center box
office on Broadway at 60th Street, by calling CenterCharge
at (212) 721-6500 or via
www.jalc.org.
Joe Zawinul