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The Zawinul Project
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 – Sunday, December 20, 2009
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Steve Wilson, hailed by NPR as “one of the finest saxophonists in the business,” returns with his stellar band to Jazz Standard to perform a tribute to the late great keyboardist and composer Joe Zawinul (1932–2007). The Vienna-born, conservatory-trained Zawinul played with Maynard Ferguson and Dinah Washington before becoming a mainstay of Cannonball Adderley’s powerhouse Sixties band and the composer of soul-jazz anthems like Mercy Mercy Mercy. Zawinul was a crucial contributor to Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, a co-founder of Weather Report with Wayne Shorter, and the leader of his own internationally acclaimed band, the Zawinul Syndicate. In the New York Times in 2006, pianist Jason Moran wrote: “Usually an artist finds their ‘signature’ and then they continue refining their signature over time. It’s rare that an artist has multiple signatures. Joe has gone on to many signatures, and that is what inspires me. He’s beyond being pegged.”
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