The Zawinul Syndicate Full Concert Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival 1997

The Zawinul Syndicate Full Concert Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival 1997 Date location: SUNDAY 13 JULY 1997 STATENHAL Congress Centre The Hague The Netherlands The Zawinul Syndicate was a jazz fusion band formed by Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul in 1988. The band evolved out of Zawinul s former band Weather Report. The band adhered to Zawinul s roots in jazz. Their style could be described as a combination of unusual grooves, driving and swinging rhythms and many borrowings from different music cultures. Josef Erich Zawinul (7 July 1932 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, a musical genre that combined jazz with rock. He cofounded the groups Weather Report and The Zawinul Syndicate. He pioneered the use of electric piano and synthesizer, and was named q