RIP Joe Zawinul
Sep. 13th, 2007 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damontIt was very odd to find this unhappy news as part of a spam subject line, of all things.
Jazz keyboardist Joe Zawinul passed away on 11 September 2007 in Vienna, victim of a rare form of skin cancer. An appreciation can be found on Bloomberg.com (click on this link to go there). Zawinul played with Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and helped found the group Weather Report; perhaps his best known compositions in the USA are "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (twice a top 15 hit) and "Birdland" (covered by a zillion artists and two zillion college pep bands).
I guess I'll go dig out the "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" album and give it a spin in Joe's honor.
Jazz keyboardist Joe Zawinul passed away on 11 September 2007 in Vienna, victim of a rare form of skin cancer. An appreciation can be found on Bloomberg.com (click on this link to go there). Zawinul played with Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and helped found the group Weather Report; perhaps his best known compositions in the USA are "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (twice a top 15 hit) and "Birdland" (covered by a zillion artists and two zillion college pep bands).
I guess I'll go dig out the "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" album and give it a spin in Joe's honor.
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Date: 2007-09-14 02:42 am (UTC)