Joe Zawinul
Austrian keyboard player and composerWikipedia
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Sep 9, 2026
Ralph BenmerguiGUEST
This is Jaco Pastorius on the bass.
Ralph BenmerguiGUEST
[upbeat music][upbeat music] [singing] Joseph Zawinul on the keyboards, leader of the band.
Mike BoonHOST
So Ralph, when you're listening to this, I'll just bring it down a bit here.
Mike BoonHOST
But, uh, like tell me what you... what, what are you feeling? Like, what are you feeling when you hear Teen Town?
Ralph BenmerguiGUEST
Jaco Pastorius is considered one of the greatest bass players of all time.
Ralph BenmerguiGUEST
He played a fretless five-string bass, and he could do anything.
Ralph BenmerguiGUEST
He came up to Joseph Zawinul, didn't know him, Zawinul didn't know him.
Ralph BenmerguiGUEST
Weather Report was already a going thing.
EthanGUEST
I'm going to go with the Bee Elegy song.
CallumGUEST
Yeah, squelch with like the guys from Weather Report, like Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter and Peter Erskine.
CallumGUEST
That'd be so good.
MatildaGUEST
So what, just better musicians than us?
Nancy WilsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You may have fun with the crowd, but for crying out loud, Darling, please save your love for me.
Bobby BroomHOST
Vocalist Nancy Wilson with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, which features Adderley's alto saxophone, Nat, his brother, at the cornet, pianist Joe Zawinul, Sam Jones at the bass, and Louis Hayes at the drums.
Bobby BroomHOST
Save your love for me.
Bobby BroomHOST
Up next, one from a jazz fusion supergroup featuring pianist Niels Landoke, Bill Evans saxophone, Daryl Jones bass, and Harvey Mason drums.
Mike AllemanaGUEST
trumpet.
Mike AllemanaGUEST
Because, you know, yeah, that's Joe Zawinul
Ben JoravskyHOST
and Cannonball.
Ben JoravskyHOST
Yeah, Joe.
Ben JoravskyHOST
And so I would love for you to riff on Joe Zawinul.
Ben JoravskyHOST
This dude is... how did this guy's not even from the United States? Uh, and he wrote two of the greatest like pop.
Ben JoravskyHOST
I don't even have pops the right word, but crossover songs that Cannonball early had, uh, the one of mercy, mercy.
Ben JoravskyHOST
Monroe Anderson and Jack White.
James GoldenHOST
Love both versions, Manhattan Transfer and this one, of the song Birdland.
James GoldenHOST
I heard one of the most interesting stories about Joe Zawinul, keyboard player, um, from Birdland, and this song in particular.
James GoldenHOST
This song was done on the Oberheim synthesizer, a lot of it.
James GoldenHOST
That bass you're hearing, that open line in the synth.
Ken LasterHOST
It's pre-Jaco Pastorius.
Ken LasterHOST
Uh, the original group was Joe Zawinul on electric and acoustic pianos and synthesizers, Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Miroslav Vitous on bass, Eric Gravatt on drums, and Dom Um Romão on percussion.
Ken LasterHOST
Released back in 1972, it has perhaps a more, uh, freeform avant-garde sound than, uh, you're used to hearing, and we're gonna begin this set with Unknown Soldier, a Joe Zawinul composition.
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Ken LasterHOST
That is taken from a Walt Whitman poem.
Ken LasterHOST
Uh, we heard Second Sunday in August, and we started out that set with Unknown Soldiers.
Ken LasterHOST
Those are both Joe Zawinul compositions.