Joe Zawinul

Black Market

Weather Report · 1976

Weather Report was built on the tension between Wayne ShorterWayne Shorterウェイン・ショーター's and Joe ZawinulJoe Zawinulジョー・ザヴィヌル's opposite sensibilities. Zawinul controlled structure and groove; Shorter threaded unpredictable lines through the gaps.

Heavy Weather

Weather Report · 1977

Heavy WeatherHeavy WeatherWeather Report · 1977 (1977) shifted Weather Report's center of gravity after Jaco PastoriusJaco Pastoriusジャコ・パストリアス joined. What anchors Joe ZawinulJoe Zawinulジョー・ザヴィヌル's Birdland is not a bass ostinato but a singing harmonic line.

— Heavy Weather (album), Wikipedia, 2024

In a Silent Way

Miles Davis · 1969

The title track of In a Silent WayIn a Silent WayMiles Davis · 1969 (1969) was a meditative chorale Joe ZawinulJoe Zawinulジョー・ザヴィヌル brought to Miles DavisMiles Davisマイルス・デイヴィス. Miles stripped the chords from the lead sheet, leaving only melody — pre-figuring the ECM aesthetic.

— In a Silent Way, Wikipedia, 2024

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis · 1970

In a Silent Way

Miles Davis · 1969

Miles's 1969–70 studio experiments fused rock's rhythmic sensibility with jazz improvisation. Bitches BrewBitches BrewMiles Davis · 1970 layered McLaughlinJohn McLaughlinジョン・マクラフリン, CoreaChick Coreaチック・コリア, HancockHerbie Hancockハービー・ハンコック, and others in simultaneous collective improvisation.

How Ndugu ChanclerNdugu Chanclerンドゥグ・チャンクラー joined Weather Report: pure chance. While recording with Jean-Luc Ponty next door, he bumped into Joe Zawinul on the sidewalk. "What are you doing the next two days?" What was supposed to be one session lasted a week and became the entire Tale Spinnin' album. He was offered a permanent spot but turned it down to stay with Santana.

— Weather Report Annotated Discography: Leon Ndugu Chancler

The Soul Society

Sam Jones · 1960

Tenderly

George Benson · 1989

Roots

Prestige All Stars, The · 1958

Letter From Home

Eddie Jefferson · 1962

By 1989 George Benson was known for pop and R&B hits, but Tenderly was an acoustic standards date. The drum chair went to Louis Hayes, a hard bop drummer who had been working the same way since the late 1950s.