Sadly, Joe Zawinul was admitted to hospital in his native Vienna exactly five days after this concert and passed on to glory on September 11, 2007. One can tell by the ill-fitting jacket that Joe wore during this final concert that he was not healthy. Regardless, his supreme musicianship was still on full display. A genius of a composer and a master keyboardist, may his soul rest in eternal peace.
God is so merciful. To allow the love between them to come full circle and once more do what they loved together.. What a beautiful moment.. RIP both of them.. Loved Weather Report!
Sadly both Joe & Wayne are now both gone. But they both left this and so much other beauty behind. Two beautiful souls with full command of their instruments bringing novel approaches to to their instruments, their music, their bands and their lives! Wayne and Joe left the Earth a much improved place with their music!
As Zawinul grew older, it seems to me that his keyboards took on the tones of church pipe organs (his left hand) and his solos the accordian he played as a youth. He peaked when he died
At the end of a lifetime of proclaiming himself (and not without justification) to be "the baddest," here is Joe Zawinul now on record for the ages: "For me, the greatest living musician in the world... Wayne Shorter." The music these two created separately, and together with Weather Report and with Miles, stands at the highest level of human creative endeavor. What a sublime performance, what an amazing gift to the world. This is the epitome of musical genius. Watch, listen and rejoice...
If I can wipe the tears off my keyboard: never mind, words cannot express how this makes me feel. I'm only very very greatful to know -- reading all of your wonderful comments -- that the very deep love I have for these two historic masters is shared by far more then I ever knew. If was lonely out there before the internet
this is sooo beautiful & also touching to me - as I didn't know that they ever shared a stage since WR !!! May you both rest in peace , and play together up there ... 😘😘
Joe was certainly one the most inspirational jazz keyboardist/composer of the last 40 years and more (with just a few others like Corea or Hancock). His music was very sophisticated but spoke directly to your soul, he was living at a higher level we will never reach. Losing such a marvelous artist is a big loss.
Two of the greatest musical artists of the 20th & 21st century. This performance was just two weeks before Joe passed into the next eternal chapter. I can say I was blessed to have been able to play with them in the early days of Weather Report. Pure genius in one time and space. The "multuverse" has been generous!!
Il gesto del saluto finale a Wayne Shorter e il suo ringraziamento sono di una eleganza unica! Due musicisti monumentali, e due veri getlemen. Thank you!
I met both of these idols in 1980 - forty years ago. It is a meeting I will treasure until the end of my days. Thank you both for your music. RIP Joe Zawinul. 🌞🇬🇧🙏🌞
There's greatness and then there are things beyond all of that. This is one of them. These two giants, maestros, geniuses...together. Pure emotion & communication. It is really hard to believe this is 39 days (less than 6 weeks!!!) before Joe left us. Eternal blessings to this duo travelling beyond space and time...
Let's give a hand young generations enjoy freedom of expression & let it sound just this good, young performers need to grow up with good stuff and those who know the best jazz tracks to enjoy, let them shine again fans
Joe was a true pioneer inventing ( along with a few of his contemporaries ) conquering and practicing a modern mix of fusion, standards, world music, and more. Weather Report was formed and had already exemplified what others wouldn’t do for year's.He was a working scientist and a heartfelt composer. It was an honor to hear this and speaks to his respect of his audience. Very beautifully wise and sincere are the comments he will know he was loved. RIP Joe
i get emotional when i watch this..brothers in their final performance together..wayne was scheduled to do some shows with syndicate.when joe's son came and got wayne wayne expressed that he was looking so forward to these shows and joe's sons informed him that those shows weren't going to happen because joe was declining fast and that they knew his death was imminent....last performance of masters....
@@harsszeg Right there with you. I bought Joe a cocktail at the Jazz Café in London, many years ago. And shook his hand. Closest I'll get to being at one with the universe.
How can any musician put such a profound stamp, such a unique and instantly recognizable style, so solidly in place this late in the history of jazz. Joe passed six months after this concert. I will miss him for the rest of my life.
It was love at first listen for me when I heard Nubian Sundance. Wayne Shorter is the supreme Jazz colorist. Both one of kind. Tale Spinnin’ is my favorite WR album but when either of these two are playing I will listen.
There is perfection , then there is Weather Report. As a band or this amazing session 😊 this outside the box off the planet . I always play their music and I have all of their music. Privilege to do so .
Now they’re both giving us the weather report from the skies.
Sadly, Joe Zawinul was admitted to hospital in his native Vienna exactly five days after this concert and passed on to glory on September 11, 2007.
One can tell by the ill-fitting jacket that Joe wore during this final concert that he was not healthy. Regardless, his supreme musicianship was still on full display.
A genius of a composer and a master keyboardist, may his soul rest in eternal peace.
Thank You for the background. So...this was most likely the last time they played together?
@@rickowenkennedy It was, yes.
Admirable tribute. Well said. He was a one off.
God is so merciful. To allow the love between them to come full circle and once more do what they loved together.. What a beautiful moment.. RIP both of them.. Loved Weather Report!
amen.
Sadly both Joe & Wayne are now both gone. But they both left this and so much other beauty behind. Two beautiful souls with full command of their instruments bringing novel approaches to to their instruments, their music, their bands and their lives! Wayne and Joe left the Earth a much improved place with their music!
RIP
I’m 77 and can proudly say we had the best music. Gone now Joe, Jaco, Chick and Chuck Greenberg… Not forgotten……
And now Wayne. 🥲
@@bigjimsjazz brother we have their music en love...never forget them ! LOVE🥰
Gone but eternal in the musical legacy left behind in the wake of their passings. Never to be forgotten …..,
I agree. Good music is timeless. When doesn't matter. If I never have heard it, then it is new to me. Thanks!
Anthony I'm 61 with 2 older brothers and consider myself very fortunate to have lived through these amazing musical times
As Zawinul grew older, it seems to me that his keyboards took on the tones of church pipe organs (his left hand) and his solos the accordian he played as a youth. He peaked when he died
How can we thank these two giants enough for all the beauty they gave us?
By not forgetting them.
@@karloarsch1579..... and spreading their sound.
Like living a dream for 14 minutes straight. RIP Mr. Shorter.
At the end of a lifetime of proclaiming himself (and not without justification) to be "the baddest," here is Joe Zawinul now on record for the ages: "For me, the greatest living musician in the world... Wayne Shorter." The music these two created separately, and together with Weather Report and with Miles, stands at the highest level of human creative endeavor. What a sublime performance, what an amazing gift to the world. This is the epitome of musical genius. Watch, listen and rejoice...
david ridenour well stated my friend. This performance brings tears to my eyes every time.
Very well said, thank you
Amen
Absolutely David
And if you include Jaco in that team, it's complete.
Nobody could improvise together quite like these two guys! Now they are together again in the great beyond. RIP gentlemen.
If I can wipe the tears off my keyboard: never mind, words cannot express how this makes me feel. I'm only very very greatful to know -- reading all of your wonderful comments -- that the very deep love I have for these two historic masters is shared by far more then I ever knew. If was lonely out there before the internet
Joe and Wayne are now making Heavenly music together once again.
It's is a privilege to watch these two geniuses give their musical valedictorian.
this is sooo beautiful & also touching to me - as I didn't know that they ever shared a stage since WR !!!
May you both rest in peace , and play together up there ...
😘😘
Even in his last days Joe was listening to his muse. He is improvising with the organ music of Cesar Franck. Nice.
Joe was certainly one the most inspirational jazz keyboardist/composer of the last 40 years and more (with just a few others like Corea or Hancock). His music was very sophisticated but spoke directly to your soul, he was living at a higher level we will never reach. Losing such a marvelous artist is a big loss.
Two of the greatest musical artists of the 20th & 21st century. This performance was just two weeks before Joe passed into the next eternal chapter. I can say I was blessed to have been able to play with them in the early days of Weather Report. Pure genius in one time and space. The "multuverse" has been generous!!
OMG, such beauty
Such grandeur, generosity of Spirit
The Love overflowing.
R.I.P., dearly beloved Grand Maestros
Thank you, Thank you.
Il gesto del saluto finale a Wayne Shorter e il suo ringraziamento sono di una eleganza unica! Due musicisti monumentali, e due veri getlemen. Thank you!
Those two genius created a whole different musical universe playing modern jazz music. Weather Report still plays in my home till my last days.
I met both of these idols in 1980 - forty years ago. It is a meeting I will treasure until the end of my days. Thank you both for your music. RIP Joe Zawinul. 🌞🇬🇧🙏🌞
Being alive in these times, 🥰😇 to feel blessed 🙌 we were here "THANKS...
Pure beauty. Two giants, great men. Unsurpassed music and love between them. Tears every time.
When ever I watch this video, my eyes are filled with tears at 0:45 already.
There was never a synth that Joe Zawinul couldn't make sound great.
Even the M1!
He once said other synth players sounded "plastic." That wasn't ego, it was truth.
There was never a synth, that Joe used the way it was delivered to him, he always upgraded it ;)
Very touching. A bittersweet moment. I'm glad they had one last song.
There's greatness and then there are things beyond all of that. This is one of them. These two giants, maestros, geniuses...together. Pure emotion & communication. It is really hard to believe this is 39 days (less than 6 weeks!!!) before Joe left us. Eternal blessings to this duo travelling beyond space and time...
Thank you for sharing... Rest in peace, gentlemen.
RIP Joe and Wayne and Respect to you sir!
Must be hard to see your peers passing on. You are all giants.
If I get to heaven.....my fifteenth wish is to see every bit of music Weather Report ever made....LIVE
Let's give a hand young generations enjoy freedom of expression & let it sound just this good, young performers need to grow up with good stuff and those who know the best jazz tracks to enjoy, let them shine again fans
Joe was a true pioneer inventing ( along with a few of his contemporaries ) conquering and practicing a modern mix of fusion, standards, world music, and more. Weather Report was formed and had already exemplified what others wouldn’t do for year's.He was a
working scientist and a heartfelt composer. It was an honor to hear this and speaks to his respect of his audience. Very beautifully wise and sincere are the comments he will know he was loved. RIP Joe
The MOST important legends of music.... God bless you Shorter and Zawinul
i get emotional when i watch this..brothers in their final performance together..wayne was scheduled to do some shows with syndicate.when joe's son came and got wayne wayne expressed that he was looking so forward to these shows and joe's sons informed him that those shows weren't going to happen because joe was declining fast and that they knew his death was imminent....last performance of masters....
I am crying like a kid at age 62
@@harsszeg Right there with you. I bought Joe a cocktail at the Jazz Café in London, many years ago. And shook his hand. Closest I'll get to being at one with the universe.
Ain't no shame in that. Intense beauty doesn't fade just cos we get older. What is beautiful remains beautiful. 🙏
So sad. Such tears
@@alanholford5793 what you expressed is so simple yet so profound Nothing else to say Thank you!!
They shared a unique language together, understood by all.
You wonder where the intro is going... until 4'17"...when Mr Shorter announces the destination with ONE NOTE! Sublime.
Two great musicians, more than that, magicians who could create new musical vistas that endured in the heart and soul. RIP
THEY WILL NEVER DIE.😇😇😇
This moment is Forever......Even without the music as they greet ....nothing could be more harmonious than their Musical Friendship!
This is gold. Absolute gold.
I’m here.....sad to say goodbye to live performances. Trailblazers from another planet. I’ve followed 30 years!
you never lied he was a very special person top of the line human being
How can any musician put such a profound stamp, such a unique and instantly recognizable style, so solidly in place this late in the history of jazz. Joe passed six months after this concert. I will miss him for the rest of my life.
Less than 6 weeks later.
yes, just a few weeks later. a great master to the end!
What a beautiful heartfelt embrace of his musical partner and alike the great Wayne Shorter - once every century such a great musical combination
Joe Zawinul's penultimate concert. The last concert of the band took place on August 3, 2007 in Güssing, Austria, six weeks before Zawinul's death.
They admired each other so much and maybe they finally met. Their music remains unforgetable.
5:37 Amazing use of a sus b9 chord, really full of colour, suspenseful yet dark, calm but with a slight underlying tension.
"Ebony & Ivory, go together in perfect harmony".
Unusual man..unusual musician..unusual sound..never comes like him..he made music between life and death..
A very moving reunion of two jazz giants. Thank you.
listen to the listening!!!! two great ears collide. You can even feel that Wayne Shorter is crying.
It was love at first listen for me when I heard Nubian Sundance. Wayne Shorter is the supreme Jazz colorist. Both one of kind. Tale Spinnin’ is my favorite WR album but when either of these two are playing I will listen.
Know their beautiful music and unique songs will live on and be a treasure for generations to listen to. Thanks for sharing..
So much love and respect between these two. It moves me to tears.
Stunning display of improvisational genius
Good and dedicated guys, lost to the ravages of time and physical corruption. Come together !
Gratitude éternelle à ces deux musiciens légendaires... Mes héros !
Man this was emotional viewing. Love these two guys so much.
Rest in peace Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter
Oh, how I love the music of Joe and Wayne and the two together, it's otherworldly.
Such great musicans, and I still zwar them all!
"hear", not zwar!
Truly Elegant, Maestros
R.I.P.
Thank you for your contribution
That was fucking special! To experience that moment. We all want that.
True artistic genius reveals itself vanishingly rarely in all of space and time. What a joy and a privilege to witness it here.
RIP to them both, true artists whose beautiful and magical music will live on forever in the hearts of many for years to come
Wow. I didn't know this existed. Straight Up Magical. What a Treat. Thank You Very Much for Posting.
The magic was still as much there as it was on Blackthorn Rose.
❤Living forever in the eternal universe of jazz. Thank you for bringing this to us
Tears for Joe. Spezza il cuore vederlo alla fine.
Zwei Giganten. So etwas hört man, when friendship becomes reality
only 2000 wiews for this giants of modern music !! come guys where are you?
Probably at a Justin Bieber concert.
Tremendous the music that friendship produced over the years and a great friendship it was
Never knew when Joe died, or the circumstances (last concert etc.) ... how sad ... unbelievable contribution ... R.I.P.
The definition of COOL.
I remember.
Sweet Nighter/
Seeing this, so much later, tears.
That we were blessed to see, hear such, creation
Uno de los ultimos ŕecitales de Joe. Emotivo. Wayne y Joe no tengo palabras para ellos. Solo gracias.
LEGENDARY!!!!! Peace & Love from PHILLY!!
RIP
Thanks so much.
The magical zawinul!
Thank you for posting! So great to see the last gig with Joe and Wayne!
There is perfection , then there is Weather Report. As a band or this amazing session 😊 this outside the box off the planet . I always play their music and I have all of their music. Privilege to do so .
I hope I get the honor of meeting them
Masterpiece !
by the way huge thanks for the posting
Świetne! Best greetings to les, to ze Peuples delle =)
it is definitely one of the most beautiful song people have ever met, thank you
What a pair and what a band!
just one word...just one...¡¡¡ YEAH...😎😎😎
Joe 's chef d'oeuvre. Miss him so much.
R.I.P WAYNE SHORTER.
Zawinul & Shorter, não tem pra ninguém.
Tears....
Pure Music by Two Masters.
the word superstar is off use , but not here , these two man made everybody that took time to liste to their art a better person indeed .
That was sublime
Yes!!! Thank you!!! 1Nation4Life
That’s a beautiful thing to behold
Two angels...
Incroyable retrouvailles 👌
They are GOD OF MUSIC~~!
Thank you I saw Weather report once.
ZAWERL!!!
Very moving this. Thanks for posting.
Grazie, thank you, mercy forever. RIP♥️✌️
A must read "ELEGANT PEOPLE "The Greatest Band that ever was by Curt Bianchi .Back Beat publisher. A glorious book.