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Absolute Ensemble
Absolute Zawinul
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (8) - Disc #1
1. Bimoya
2. Sultan
3. Great Empire
4. Peace
5. Good Day
6. The Peasant
7. Ballad For Two Musicians
8. Ice Pick Willy

CD Details

All Artists: Absolute Ensemble
Title: Absolute Zawinul
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sunny Side Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 3/23/2010
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Rock
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 016728125727

Synopsis

Product Description

This is the last studio recording of legendary Joe Zawinul of Weather Report fame. It is a masterpiece and a must for any music fan.Joe's wish was that the Absolute Zawinul project be about the musician he had become, not the musician he was thirty-something years before. He was adamant that he did not want to hear more Birdland arrangements and Weather Report tunes. The collaboration was to explore some of the seven hundred odd works Zawinul had composed but not yet realized. Joe did want to hear some of his favorite old tunes but in an entirely new way...

CD Reviews

Zawinul Lives!

bryan aaker | 04/23/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Wow. Zawinul has left us. He promised an acoustic release during the halcion days of Weather Report. I long for a chance to hear THAT before I pass, but until then we have ABSOLUTE ZAWINUL. The beauty of this recording is chilling. Big Bad Joe shows each of his musical sides here. Track 4 titled PEACE reveals Zawinul in all his glory. Simply as good as composition gets. And the Ensemble is wonderful as Joe floats above them. All of this recording is a listening must. Buy it. Do it now and you'll find the Zawinul you know and love...and more. 5 STARS!"

Zawinul out Zawinuls Zawinul

John C. Nicholas | Gettysburg, PA | 06/02/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Joe Zawinul made a lot of great recordings throughout his career and especially in the last couple of years of his life but I believe this is the culmination of everything. From beginning to end the Absolute Ensemble and the Zawinul Syndicate play with incredible energy and depth. If you liked the WDR Big Band recording and "75", this is better. I think Zawinul's hero, Duke Ellington, would have said that this music is "beyond category"."

Growing to the end

Kim A. Gondring | North Carolina | 06/10/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Joe only continued to get better. Peace, Ballad for Two Musicians, and The Peasant are masterpieces full of complexity and feeling."