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 enlarge | Artist: Joe Zawinul
Label: Heads Up
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $8.45
You Save: $10.53 (55%)
New (12) Used (7) from $8.11
Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 45104
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: factory sealed, 100% guaranteed.
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21st Century Weather Report March 5, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This big band rendition of the best of Zawinul, Shorter & Company is an essential "Weather update." As other reviewers have opined, those 70s synth sounds have not aged well despite the fact that JZ was the consummate synth player (akin to Garth Hudson with the Band). The horns arrangements are unified and add a fresh perspective to the WR standards. Would love to hear more peformances, but these two discs' worth are nothing short of amazing. Jazz is alive and well in the 21st Century.
Joe Zawinul's greatest post-Weather Report disc March 4, 2007
41 out of 44 found this review helpful
What does it take to produce great improvised music?
I've often pondered that question as I've reviewed nearly a thousand discs on this Amazon site. Stars aligned? Fortuitously landing on exactly the right groove? Weirdly synchronious aesthetic?
I confess, I don't know.
But I think I've got enough savvy, enough musical acumen, to recognize it when it happens.
And believe me, it happens here. Majorly.
Listen. Everyone involved's totally nailed it on this exceptional disc: elegiacism (that is, accessible melancholy), that most important of jazz moves, veritable exudes from these grooves; refined yet raw explosiveness erupts out of this session with eldritch regularity; and reckless joi de vivre literally bursts out of the speakers.
Certainly, Weather Report was one of the most important groups to ever grace our airwaves. To conjure its spirit sans any postmodern irony or nostalgia is a move of major consequence. To do it with such absolute insousance, with such casual aplomb, almost defies comprehension. Yet that's what we're dealing with here.
That raises the question: Was Joe Zawinul the prime mover behind Weather Report? How could that be, with bass god Jaco Pastorius and tenor sax icon Wayne Shorter involved? Nevertheless Zawinul, here, somehow, manages to conjure and manifest the consummate jazz/accessible vibe, one that, no matter what the genre, nearly always achieves what Weather Report was designed to reveal.
Look. Zawinul fully on his game (as he is here) casually outdoes all the wannabe fusion outfits seeking to parlay Weather Report-ish sensibilities into the new millenium.
This glorious disc, a two-fer, deserves the highest possible marks. You'd be a fool to miss out on it.
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