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Joe Zawinul

Joe Zawinul
Austrian jazz and fusion keyboard player (born on 7 July 1932 in Vienna, Austria; died on 11 September 2007 in Vienna, Austria, aged 75).

Zawinul had his first introduction to music was playing the accordion with his family. As a jazz musician he began getting noticed in 1952, when he began working with Hans Koller. However, he is most recognized for his work as a musician and composer on the Miles Davis albums recorded between 1969 and 1972: "" (1969), "" (1970), "" (1971), and "" (1974).

Zawinul is also recognized for co-founding Weather Report in 1970, one of the seminal jazz-fusion bands of the 1970s, along with Wayne Shorter – who was also an ex-Davis musician. Since the split of Weather Report in 1986, he did some solo tours and recordings and formed The Zawinul Syndicate and played in other bands.

He was additionally a great composer, and known as one of the great pioneers of electronic keyboards in jazz music.

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