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Joe Zawinul (1932-2007) |
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Joe Zawinul, Austria's finest jazz
export, actually started out as a classic musician. Highly
talented and with perfect pitch, he was awarded a stipend
for an excellent music training. But he soon found out that
classic music was not what he wanted to play and turned to
jazz. In the 1950s he emigrated to the States, first only
planning to stay for a couple of months but then moving to
New York City for good. One of the major decisive factors
was the legendary jazz club 'Birdland' where he completed
his musical education by listening to Duke Ellington, Miles
Davis, Ella Fitzgerald and many others. He adapted his style
and changed from a jazz-inspired musician with classic training
into a 'black' musician who was able to swing and funk as
if he was born in Harlem and not in a Viennese suburb. |
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