Joe Zawinul
Posted by Jim at September 11th, 2007
At the risk of making this blog a repository of obituaries for artists whose work I’ve enjoyed, I thought I’d mention that Joe Zawinul died today.
Joe Zawinul was one of the innovators in jazz’s fusion movement, bringing elements of rock into jazz. Among his many contributions, he played with Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley and founded his own band, Weather Report.
While leading Weather Report, he hired Jaco Pastorius, an innovative bass player whose ideas still influence bass players today.
I guess what I’m trying to say here is that Zawinul was significant. Check out his music.
Well, crap.
A great man, a great musician, and I’m a little stunned I didn’t hear this from KPLU.
Eric Burns
That is odd, but I only heard it a couple times on NPR the whole day.
Of course, the station I listen to for most of the day plays the NPR talk shows. KPLU plays largely jazz (am I right about that?) so yeah, that is odd.
Jim