RIP Joe Zawinul - Tiki Music

S sushiman Member Kumamoto , Japan Joined: Jun 28, 2007 Posts: 313	S sushiman Posted posted on Wed, Sep 12, 2007 6:45 PM Joe's music was imaginative, brilliant, intellectual, funky, and he had an amazing yet understated piano technique. He was the first guy who really mastered the analog synthesizer as an instrument of jazz orchestration. Improvisationally, he always sacrificed his chops for musicality. As a composer of electric jazz his only real peer was his bandmate Wayne Shorter. He was a visionary. Some of the earliest (if not the earliest) jazz/world fusion hybrid music was his. I love his quote about his band Weather Report: "We always solo, we never solo." If you've never heard them, this won't make any sense...if you have, you know exactly what he meant!

Joe's music was imaginative, brilliant, intellectual, funky, and he had an amazing yet understated piano technique. He was the first guy who really mastered the analog synthesizer as an instrument of jazz orchestration. Improvisationally, he always sacrificed his chops for musicality. As a composer of electric jazz his only real peer was his bandmate Wayne Shorter.

He was a visionary. Some of the earliest (if not the earliest) jazz/world fusion hybrid music was his.

I love his quote about his band Weather Report: "We always solo, we never solo." If you've never heard them, this won't make any sense...if you have, you know exactly what he meant!

Post #332148 by sushiman on Wed, Sep 12, 2007 6:45 PM