I was working at the Newport Jazz Fest, 1990, Joe's vocoder, went down I re-patched it to the spare, after set change I was on lunch break. a friend said, " some guy named Joe is looking for you" there was Joe with his hand out and thanking me,,,,,,,,,,
I have read a few comments below about how Joe could be quite brutal with his musicians - and it is indeed true that he COULD be quite short and direct with them. But here's a lovely story that fans will enjoy.... Sabine Kabongo had just joined the band and had come to London for a week's residence at Ronnie Scotts. It was her third concert for Joe. The first set ended and the band were hanging around the bar and so I approached Sabine to tell her how much I enjoyed her contribution. She was stressed!! She thanked me and said that she hoped Joe liked it as she was nervous about getting it right. I looked her straight in the eye and told her that Joe MORE than appreciated her, and it was evident in the way he was looking at her while she was singing and the way he was throwing her lines to sing to. She took a breath, burst Into tears of joy, wrapped her arms around me and thanked me. She asked how sure I was - and I said that it was more than 100%, and that I was able to tell as I had been following Joe around the world for years and could read his body language. The second set - she just flew!! And the proof of the pudding was that she stayed with him until his very last concert.
i watched joe zawinul from very close some years before his passing in his club birdland in vienna where you could stand on the balcony just a few feet above his keyboard rig and observe his magic from close: the prophet T8, Korg M1, his inverted KORG prophecy, a clavia synth, and, of course, the famous PEPI....his son ivan gave me some very dark looks when he saw me taking pictures...... on that occasion, a big pharma company had hired his band and rented his club for one evening on a promotion event for some big new drug, and i was among the invited. so, basically, a lot of surgeons and orthopedic folks in the audience, some without a clue of whom they were watching. and the band played one set of songs, including - unforgettable to me - the classic boogie woogie waltz from weather report times i want to share one very special story from that evening which shows who joe zawinul was. later in the evening, he was sitting between his keyboards and improvising solo over some very traditional viennese song on his electronic synthesizers and the vocoder. after finishing one piece, he watched some folks in the first row wanting to get up and leave, and he told them please stay, i`ll play one more piece for you. it was a very intimate concert, and i thought to myself, not every day one of the great legends of jazz and fusion music in the world will ask you to stay and remain and listen to him playing. he will remain unforgotten. unforgivingly demanding with hs fellow musicians when it came to playing in his band, but otherwise a heart of gold. one funny thing i remember is that he said there was one single language in the world aside american english which allowed you to sing authentic blues, and that was the viennese dialect. which he convincingly documented in his famous Potato Blues recording.
What is so cool is that Joe was never at rest. He was, and his music was, a ongoing, never ending process, He shared this with Miles, Picasso, Faulkner and all of the great artists of the twentieth century. It was what Nietzsche would call continual "becoming" and I agree all of the "mistakes" are just a part of that. In fact, there are no mistakes, only steps.
This stuff you can watch for hours. To see a monster musician at work like this, humbles anything you think that you've done. Can you imagine sitting in on a Holdsworth rehearsal?
I know I've already left numerous commentaries here, but having been somewhat medically immobilised these last 3 years, I have watched WAY to much stuff on TH-cam, across all subjects and genres. And yet STILL - after all these years -- I find this to be the most precious and valuable video on TH-cam. I remember the first time I saw it, I literally cried with joy! Thanks Estel for posting. You're a star!
I don’t think he’s under appreciated but I know what you mean. Vast majority of his work was never gonna be mainstream media & thank god as he’d of sold out and it would be watered down saccharine for the masses, hence this video would not exist. In the jazz circles he was/is 👑 In his doc you see all those Japanese magazine covers he was on - global appeal despite his own unique kufi inspired juju keys of wonder.
"Bitches Brew ," my favorite album of the 70s. Miles and Joe were great collaborators. Joe was the innovator on that album. I also enjoyed listening to the "Jack Johnson," album, again Joe and Miles collaboration, another great album.
This is priceless. What a rare window into the process of a great, enigmatic, artist. One rarely gets to see just how mundane, exhausting, and repetitive it is in the studio to get a fully-realized version of an idea committed to tape; it's extremely hard work, and this is an extraordinary recording of that process in action. You can just hear things starting to gel with each passing minute. Amazing post.
Very true, although I would beg to differ when you called him "enigmatic". With Joe there was no enigma at all -he was totally upfront with everything - for better or worse!! Damn I miss him !!!!
I couldn’t agree more , He was a Genius, and then to be with Genius Wayne Shorter-- and then to add Jaco to that Mix!!! ---Mind Blown !!! H ow much talent- creative Genius can you have in one Band??
love this guy he's the reason I started learning piano and keyboard. great video wish there were more videos of him and or weather report in the studio.its very interesting to see how they recorded back in the day.
Corner Pocket. Broken Down. This is obviously the home guide tune before he tracked it with the band in the studio Joe takes us all to school showing just how powerful one musician can be with a couple of genius loops.
You probably didn't pay attention but the tune was already recorded by the band, and it's being played at the beginning of this video a couple times. Here, Joe was actually preparing his solo performance, since Weather Report stopped touring in 84. You can find some videos on TH-cam of his solo concerts. ;)
This upload proves that an obsessive passion for perfection has its benefits. Watching a musical legend like Mr Zawinul craft his art for my musical pleasure just makes me appreciate his music even more. Thanks for the memories Weather Report still rocks!
Watching Mrs. I went all praying grad Pingris through making a song is amazing because he’ll just come down on the beach he catches it on the upside nobody else wants to know about and that’s what makes it grab it gives you that grab every time I think you must their Machado thank you sir appreciate it I’ve been having parallel universe somewhere are you playing at all together we still listening 14:39
how can someone dislike this video? oh crap... Zawinul is one of the geniuses of the last century. thanks for posting -- and good to have analog polysinths back in production, real music instruments
Many analogue synths are great. But Digital synths can be great instruments too as long as they have great expressive qualities and interesting features when it comes to synthesis.
Priceless, thank you for putting this up - these full unedited recordings show all the bits and pieces that are interesting for fellow musicians and composer. Next, post the hidden audio recording the dinner AFTER the bottle was finsihed ;-) Thx again!
It's great to see how a genius operates. I'd always thought the vocals at the intro of Corner Pocket were just cute gibberish. It's very interesting to find out, all these years later, that they actually mean something in Austrian. Really cool stuff. Thanks for posting this video.
Wow, what great piece of Musical history, loved Weather Report from the first day I heard them. Changed my musical appreciation of Contemporary/ World Jazz overnight. Waddaguy, and all who was associated to progressive jazz and their creative influence. Still thrill at all the content and their contribution over 40 plus years!
This is invaluable!!! What a treasure [yes, rough & all!!! THANK YOU SIR!!! This is a masterclass & a masterpiece in musical essence!!! What a super genius Joe was!! Amazing!!! God bless you!!!
23:00 Amazing chords!! What in the world are those chords??!! So great seeing Joe in action! A couple of times I thought he was going to break out into "Birdland," just my wishful thinking though.
I know this is an older video posting, but I have to mention...if you dig what Zawinul is doing here...I'm almost certain the music he's playing is a lead up to his absolutely amazing ''Dialects" album, released in 1986. Do yourself a favor and go buy it!
Thank you Estel. Dillon. Ah yes Slivovitz..a nice hundred plus proof plum brandy. My 92 year old granny (Croatian) seemed to enjoy it. God Bless You and Joe.
I met him at Avery Fischer Hall. Was a high schooler back then. Left my poor Dad in the nosebleed section and scampered all the way to the stage then found my way to the Green Room and gave him and Wayne Shorter a hug! Didn't get to meet Jaco, but this was still an awesome moment!!
Amazing stuff. This is so much better than a polished performance on the record. I'd rather hear everything live, with mistakes, on the fly adjustments, and spontaneity. So much better.
Same here. They should have recorded thiis live off the floor once the details were all worked out, and then touched up the rest. I wasn't a big fan of this later style of WR honestly. BTW, I've got a LIVE version of PEARL OF THE HALF SHELL on my channel with a faked live video performance as visuals. Compare that to the studio version and they're completely different beasts.
He was so courteous with his engineer and with the interviewer. Just another day at the office for Joe. I love it when he says he's going to have another smoke. His engineer looks a bit like 1980 Peter Gabriel. At 1:22:31, Joe Zawinul in his own world with sun shining on the pot plants outside the window.
Wow thank you for posting this Estel! Zawinul was the biggest influence on me in the early days. I remember getting tickets to see WR at the Rainbow Music Hall in Denver late 70's. I was so pumped up after hearing that gig, that music has remained inspirational after all these years. Great to see how many textures and layers he could get going at once before Wayne put a lead sax line on top.
47:50 and let's talk about this symphonic masterpiece he came up with on the fly.... why I owned almost every Weather Report album. Love how the camera sets the stage for this piece by showing the outside of the house and framing Zawinul with the door....
An Amazing Amazing procss to get the sound the note hes lookjng for i dont play music but can feel it love you Mr Joe Zawinul and the Great Legacy of Music and super Musicianship A Master take your rest Sir RIp
We created some great music together in Weather Report. RIP Joe!
RIP Alphonse!
I was working at the Newport Jazz Fest, 1990, Joe's vocoder, went down I re-patched it to the spare, after set change I was on lunch break. a friend said, " some guy named Joe is looking for you" there was Joe with his hand out and thanking me,,,,,,,,,,
Alphonse is gone, too?
I loved your work with Weather Report!
RIP Joe Zawinul and Alphonse Mouzon
I am proud to say that I built most of that studio in his house in Pasadena. Great guy, and still my favorite band of all time.
you have to be proud! this is from sportin' life period isn't it?
We finished the project in 1980. Got to see Jaco there, but it was toward the end for him. He's still the greatest bass player ever..
weather reports music is so many years ahead of its time !
@@garykropp9987 I might be too late but ... wow, what was Jaco like? RIP
That’s cool! I’m less than a mile from Pasadena. Where (more or less) was his place? Was it along the Arroyo?
I have read a few comments below about how Joe could be quite brutal with his musicians - and it is indeed true that he COULD be quite short and direct with them. But here's a lovely story that fans will enjoy....
Sabine Kabongo had just joined the band and had come to London for a week's residence at Ronnie Scotts. It was her third concert for Joe. The first set ended and the band were hanging around the bar and so I approached Sabine to tell her how much I enjoyed her contribution. She was stressed!! She thanked me and said that she hoped Joe liked it as she was nervous about getting it right. I looked her straight in the eye and told her that Joe MORE than appreciated her, and it was evident in the way he was looking at her while she was singing and the way he was throwing her lines to sing to. She took a breath, burst Into tears of joy, wrapped her arms around me and thanked me. She asked how sure I was - and I said that it was more than 100%, and that I was able to tell as I had been following Joe around the world for years and could read his body language. The second set - she just flew!!
And the proof of the pudding was that she stayed with him until his very last concert.
Lovely story
I was there, that reminds me, and she did seem uncertain at first. Good job!
Beautiful story - well done for giving her the courage she needed!
i watched joe zawinul from very close some years before his passing in his club birdland in vienna where you could stand on the balcony just a few feet above his keyboard rig and observe his magic from close: the prophet T8, Korg M1, his inverted KORG prophecy, a clavia synth, and, of course, the famous PEPI....his son ivan gave me some very dark looks when he saw me taking pictures...... on that occasion, a big pharma company had hired his band and rented his club for one evening on a promotion event for some big new drug, and i was among the invited. so, basically, a lot of surgeons and orthopedic folks in the audience, some without a clue of whom they were watching. and the band played one set of songs, including - unforgettable to me - the classic boogie woogie waltz from weather report times
i want to share one very special story from that evening which shows who joe zawinul was. later in the evening, he was sitting between his keyboards and improvising solo over some very traditional viennese song on his electronic synthesizers and the vocoder. after finishing one piece, he watched some folks in the first row wanting to get up and leave, and he told them please stay, i`ll play one more piece for you. it was a very intimate concert, and i thought to myself, not every day one of the great legends of jazz and fusion music in the world will ask you to stay and remain and listen to him playing. he will remain unforgotten. unforgivingly demanding with hs fellow musicians when it came to playing in his band, but otherwise a heart of gold.
one funny thing i remember is that he said there was one single language in the world aside american english which allowed you to sing authentic blues, and that was the viennese dialect. which he convincingly documented in his famous Potato Blues recording.
@ 0:18 = Did he say I want to smoke a little more'....? Priceless. He is greatly missed, but his music lives on.
What is so cool is that Joe was never at rest. He was, and his music was, a ongoing, never ending process, He shared this with Miles, Picasso, Faulkner and all of the great artists of the twentieth century. It was what Nietzsche would call continual "becoming" and I agree all of the "mistakes" are just a part of that. In fact, there are no mistakes, only steps.
Bob Long exactly. The search must continue.
Ahhhhmen!
Anybody who ever dabbled with sound/music can only be improved upon by listening/watching this man. The definition of mindful purpose.
Joe was so unique. I know he's still jamming. What a guy.
This stuff you can watch for hours. To see a monster musician at work like this, humbles anything you think that you've done. Can you imagine sitting in on a Holdsworth rehearsal?
Zawinul is a little different than Holdsworth.
@@silva777 I think they both 'felt' the music in the same way.
I know I've already left numerous commentaries here, but having been somewhat medically immobilised these last 3 years, I have watched WAY to much stuff on TH-cam, across all subjects and genres. And yet STILL - after all these years -- I find this to be the most precious and valuable video on TH-cam. I remember the first time I saw it, I literally cried with joy!
Thanks Estel for posting. You're a star!
The best jazz kb producer he was!!! ...i still love Joe!!! my best years with Weather!
Joe Z was a great artist who will be rediscovered over and over.
One of the most influential yet under appreciated artists of all time!
I don’t think he’s under appreciated but I know what you mean. Vast majority of his work was never gonna be mainstream media & thank god as he’d of sold out and it would be watered down saccharine for the masses, hence this video would not exist. In the jazz circles he was/is 👑
In his doc you see all those Japanese magazine covers he was on - global appeal despite his own unique kufi inspired juju keys of wonder.
NOTHING SOUNDS BETTER THAN CONFIANS , SONG JUST HITS YOUR MIND ,BODY, AND SPIRIT , RIP ZAWINAL A TRUE LEGEND IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.
"Bitches Brew ," my favorite album of the 70s. Miles and Joe were great collaborators. Joe was the innovator on that album. I also enjoyed listening to the "Jack Johnson," album, again Joe and Miles collaboration, another great album.
Joe Zawinul is One of my Keyboard heroes, he has gave me lot of inspirations..!!
This is priceless. What a rare window into the process of a great, enigmatic, artist. One rarely gets to see just how mundane, exhausting, and repetitive it is in the studio to get a fully-realized version of an idea committed to tape; it's extremely hard work, and this is an extraordinary recording of that process in action. You can just hear things starting to gel with each passing minute. Amazing post.
Very true, although I would beg to differ when you called him "enigmatic". With Joe there was no enigma at all -he was totally upfront with everything - for better or worse!!
Damn I miss him !!!!
This is a wonderful incredible gift to all of us who are still deeply influenced by Joe Zawinul ...thanks so much for putting it up here!
Dang. This dude's musical skill, depth, imagination, vision, and maturity was soooooo BEYOND. Respect and RIP.
Though Joe is sadly missed, through films such as this he lives on! What an inspirational guy he was and still is.
I couldn’t agree more , He was a Genius, and then to be with Genius Wayne Shorter-- and then to add Jaco to that Mix!!! ---Mind Blown !!! H ow much talent- creative Genius can you have in one Band??
Two years later, I'm still watching this.
One of my heroes, he gave me a lot of inspirations.
a great dress rehearsal… what a player, an inventor. So good to see this footage.
Genius I love you Mr Zawinul may you RIP!!!! Your music will live forever!!
love this guy he's the reason I started learning piano and keyboard. great video wish there were more videos of him and or weather report in the studio.its very interesting to see how they recorded back in the day.
my all time favourite musician, always bring a smile on my face
So much music over one chord!! Damn that’s intense..
Corner Pocket. Broken Down. This is obviously the home guide tune before he tracked it with the band in the studio Joe takes us all to school showing just how powerful one musician can be with a couple of genius loops.
You probably didn't pay attention but the tune was already recorded by the band, and it's being played at the beginning of this video a couple times. Here, Joe was actually preparing his solo performance, since Weather Report stopped touring in 84. You can find some videos on TH-cam of his solo concerts. ;)
So cool to now know why there was the sound of a FLY between the two opening vocoder phrases! Lol. It was about catching the Fly on the wall.
@@drbassfacewhich album is it on please?
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This upload proves that an obsessive passion for perfection has its benefits. Watching a musical legend like Mr Zawinul craft his art for my musical pleasure just makes me appreciate his music even more. Thanks for the memories Weather Report still rocks!
Priceless footage of a true master, who made me discover and like, fusion-Jazz. Thanks.
Watching Mrs. I went all praying grad Pingris through making a song is amazing because he’ll just come down on the beach he catches it on the upside nobody else wants to know about and that’s what makes it grab it gives you that grab every time I think you must their Machado thank you sir appreciate it I’ve been having parallel universe somewhere are you playing at all together we still listening 14:39
A gift in every sense of the word. Thank you for sharing this.
Priceless! So cool to see a genius at work, mistakes and all.
Thank you, Mr. Dillon, for sharing.
what a magical day that must have been.
Thanks for playing for us Joe. Thanks for sharing with us Joe. Thanks your you Joe.
how can someone dislike this video? oh crap... Zawinul is one of the geniuses of the last century. thanks for posting -- and good to have analog polysinths back in production, real music instruments
Many analogue synths are great. But Digital synths can be great instruments too as long as they have great expressive qualities and interesting features when it comes to synthesis.
Fantastic find this footage. Love this man. So fresh and creative. RIP Joe.
Priceless, thank you for putting this up - these full unedited recordings show all the bits and pieces that are interesting for fellow musicians and composer.
Next, post the hidden audio recording the dinner AFTER the bottle was finsihed ;-)
Thx again!
He gave a new breath to the music. One of the best.
It's great to see how a genius operates. I'd always thought the vocals at the intro of Corner Pocket were just cute gibberish. It's very interesting to find out, all these years later, that they actually mean something in Austrian. Really cool stuff. Thanks for posting this video.
Among the most amazing videos I've seen. On a personal level. I am greatful. Thank you for this considerate upload!
absolutley stupendous...the insight ,the feel and the dedication. i met him for about an hour once before a concert,,a beutiful human being.
Incredible! Sheer genius unfolding before the eyes of the camera. It is regrettable that he died such a quick and untimely death. Rest-in-peace Mr. Z!
Amazing, timeless.
What an amazing video is this! Seeing Joe working out in his home studio. Endless talent & creativity!!!
Wow, what great piece of Musical history, loved Weather Report from the first day I heard them. Changed my musical appreciation of Contemporary/ World Jazz overnight. Waddaguy, and all who was associated to progressive jazz and their creative influence. Still thrill at all the content and their contribution over 40 plus years!
Joe !!! One of my big Heros!! He teached me so much! Thank you, one day we see us again!!
This is invaluable!!! What a treasure [yes, rough & all!!! THANK YOU SIR!!! This is a masterclass & a masterpiece in musical essence!!! What a super genius Joe was!! Amazing!!! God bless you!!!
Thousand thanxes... Mercy Mercy Mercy
Good 1!
What would we do without music! 🤩
This is a jewel, and I thank you SO much for sharing it
23:00 Amazing chords!! What in the world are those chords??!! So great seeing Joe in action! A couple of times I thought he was going to break out into "Birdland," just my wishful thinking though.
Two chords per bar. A combination of: tritone roots and slash-chords.
All time inspiration.... Thanks for posting.
Great, great video. Thanks for uploading!
Joe continues to inspire... RIP
I know this is an older video posting, but I have to mention...if you dig what Zawinul is doing here...I'm almost certain the music he's playing is a lead up to his absolutely amazing ''Dialects" album, released in 1986. Do yourself a favor and go buy it!
This is really unique tape. Thank you very much for sharing. Fan's will love it.
Thank you Estel. Dillon. Ah yes Slivovitz..a nice hundred plus proof plum brandy. My 92 year old granny (Croatian) seemed to enjoy it. God Bless You and Joe.
I met him at Avery Fischer Hall. Was a high schooler back then. Left my poor Dad in the nosebleed section and scampered all the way to the stage then found my way to the Green Room and gave him and Wayne Shorter a hug! Didn't get to meet Jaco, but this was still an awesome moment!!
Its always insightful to see inside the mind, gifts and talents of those many only know about... Thanks Joe and rest in Peace.
wow this is great. Love this guy
thanks for putting that up. I enjoyed every minute of it.
Love this! Thanks for sharing.
Great posting !! Thanks so much for sharing !! Much appreciated.
at least to my ears..........pioneer...........I always love them ,....took me awhile....still getting my head around it , the stuff is DEEP.....
Wow. This is a rare treasure. This is the kind of stuff I love most. I can learn so much from this little "workshop" with JoeZ.
Thank you.
Someone else who understands...how refreshing and fortifying.
thanks for this!
that's incredible ! thank you Estel !!
Thanks for posting this footage.Really cool stuff.
Unbelievable, rare experience I can see Josef Zawinul's home studio, I was moved a lot!
Amazing stuff. This is so much better than a polished performance on the record. I'd rather hear everything live, with mistakes, on the fly adjustments, and spontaneity. So much better.
I so fervently agree.
Same here. They should have recorded thiis live off the floor once the details were all worked out, and then touched up the rest. I wasn't a big fan of this later style of WR honestly. BTW, I've got a LIVE version of PEARL OF THE HALF SHELL on my channel with a faked live video performance as visuals. Compare that to the studio version and they're completely different beasts.
Thanks so much for sharing this!!
Thanks for posting this. I've thoroughly enjoyed it.
Dude i am listening to your album for the first time, I keep passing it up glad i stop
Great! Thanks for posting.
Many thanks for posting this. Such a gem. It’s a shame the interview tape is not around.
i always wondered what that meant... now i know, and when i hear this tune, it will mean more than before.thanks!
He was so courteous with his engineer and with the interviewer. Just another day at the office for Joe. I love it when he says he's going to have another smoke. His engineer looks a bit like 1980 Peter Gabriel. At 1:22:31, Joe Zawinul in his own world with sun shining on the pot plants outside the window.
Amazing ,I'm learning so much watching this !
A one-man music universe!
Amazing, genius at work
RIP Joe you were one of a kind
Breath taking
I really enjoyed this
This is an extraordinary find. What a beautiful afternoon.
what a musician!
Wow thank you for posting this Estel! Zawinul was the biggest influence on me in the early days. I remember getting tickets to see WR at the Rainbow Music Hall in Denver late 70's. I was so pumped up after hearing that gig, that music has remained inspirational after all these years. Great to see how many textures and layers he could get going at once before Wayne put a lead sax line on top.
47:50 and let's talk about this symphonic masterpiece he came up with on the fly.... why I owned almost every Weather Report album. Love how the camera sets the stage for this piece by showing the outside of the house and framing Zawinul with the door....
btw this is a duke ellington tune called come sunday! beautiful!!
Thank you so much Mr. Zawinul!
Great Joe and great Weather Report. I was lucky to see them in May 1983 in Stadt Park in Hamburg.Pity they are gone
Thanks for uploading this retro classic footage !
Thanks for sharing this treasure ! I do enjoy this track🤩
This video is amazing. Being in the creative process of a his genius is fantastic. RIP Mr Zawinul,
oh god!
this is just amazing
The Best!
+Estel Dillon Thanks for uploading this. It's a real treasure.
An Amazing Amazing procss to get the sound the note hes lookjng for i dont play music but can feel it love you Mr Joe Zawinul and the Great Legacy of Music and super Musicianship A Master take your rest Sir RIp
great vid!
As a bassist, it was Joe for me in WR. I could tell the dude was a genius. He reminded me of one of my Italian uncles.
GENIUS!!!
❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏