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 enlarge | Artist: Joe Zawinul
Label: Heads Up
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $9.40
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 75634
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 3121
UPC: 053361312121
EAN: 0053361312121
ASIN: B000MGVCLS
Release Date: February 27, 2007
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Condition: CD in the original case. Brand new, never used, ship fast.
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Smoking! November 25, 2007
For a Weather Report fan who has always found their music to be a perfect blend of jazz past, now and future, I found "Brown Street" to be wonderful example of the staying power of music written by Josef Zawinul and Wayne Shorter. I would have never thought that arranging the music of Weather Report for a big band format would make the music sound so fresh, contemporary and vibrant! A must have recording for fans of Weather Report and the late Josef Zawinul.
A fitting chronical of the music of Joe Zawinul October 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Even if he had known that this would be his last recording,i don't think that Joe could have come up with a better tribute to the legacy of his music."In A Slient Way"is particularly beautiful, with a sensitive trumpet reading over the type of sophisticated but emotional arrangement what has always been a trademark for Zawinul. For me, this big band is making the concept of a big band fresh and vital again with all of the recent contemporary jazz recordings that they have done on the music of Pat Metheny, etc., and this record is yet another example of that. They are strong and tight and just doing Zawinul's music the way he might do it if HE played all the instruments himself - this is a really great record and a true chronical of the music of Joe Zawinul, I highly recommned it to any Weather Report / 70's "golden age" world - fusion fan.
Phenomenal September 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're a Weather Report fan, you'll love this CD. All of the songs were done by Weather Report and written by Joe Zawinul, who is performing them with the WDR Big Band at his Birdland Club. It was a celebration of his 70th birthday. Man, these guys can really cook. The arrangements are well done by Vince Mendoza and the exception is "Procession", which is arranged by Joe. They don't take away from Joe's or Weather Report's sound at all, in this writer's opinion. You can still hear his keyboard mastery, along with special guests Victor Bailey, Alex Acuna and Nathaniel Townsley.
I recently saw an interview in which Joe raved about the first American bands that he heard: Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller. He said that their band's intonations were perfect. "Never made a mistake" he said. I wonder if Joe ever thought that one day his songs would be played by a band that fits that discription. The WDR Band is tight and treats his music beautifully. I recommend this CD highly and I'm glad that I own it as homage to a great musician and person.
big brass sound September 16, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
here's a big brassy sound, combining zawinul's electric piano and his tour bus visits to locations of world music in many ways similar to pharoah sanders' international musical excursions. as always with zawinul, there's lot of energy. paradoxically, not just in a silent way and black market, all of zawinul's music sounds familiar to the point of sounding alike while sounding different; this is personal style, without being redundant.
i've heard that listeners of rock don't like the music of zawinul and weather report. that's pretty high praise.
Zawinul performing his Weather Report Tunes September 13, 2007
I am moved to write this review after hearing of Mr. Zawinul's death at 75 on Sept. 11 '07 while listening to KCSM. (They played a 4+ hour tribute to the man and his music from his days with Cannonball and Miles thru today.) He was quite the innovator as a keyboard player and composer.
This CD recorded at his Birdland club in Vienna on Oct. of 2005 with the WDR big band. At first I leary about getting this disc but after hearing it I had to grab a copy. As Zawinul wrote the arrangments are basicaly Weather Report arrangments transformed into a big band setting. The playing here is impecable. All the solos by the band and Joe are out of this world!!!
All of the tunes recorded here are his great tunes all recorded at one point by Weather Report. Most of these tunes he had not played since The band broke up. It's great to hear these tunes again in a new light. Get this one today.
Also check out Vienna Nights also recored at Birdland wiht the Syndicate at 2 dates in 2004.
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