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Joe Zawinul: Faces & Palces

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Label: ESC Records
Released: 2002.09.10
Time:
 65:47
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Joe Zawinul
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.zawinulmusic.com
Appears with: Weather Report
Purchase date: 2002.09.23
Price in €: 13,99



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[1] The Search (Zawinul) - 2:03
[2] All About Simon (Mbappe/Zawinul) - 4:57
[3] Introduction to Tower of Silence (Chatterjee/Zawinul) - 1:29
[4] Tower of Silence (Zawinul) - 6:09
[5] The Spirit of Julian "C" Adderley (Zawinul) - 5:31
[6] Familiar to Me (Lang/Page/Zawinul) - 4:39
[7] Cafe Andalusia (A Day in Tunisia) (Zawinul) - 7:12
[8] Good Day (Zawinul) - 5:11
[9] Barefoot Beauty (Zawinul) - 6:15
[10] Rooftops of Vienna (Zawinul) - 6:01
[11] Borges Buenos Aires, Pt. 1 (Zawinul) - 4:38
[12] Borges Buenos Aires, Pt. 2 (Zawinul) - 2:51
[13] Siseya (Mbappe/Zawinul) - 2:35
[14] East 12th Street Band (Zawinul) - 6:16

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JOE ZAWINUL - Piano, Arranger, Keyboards, Vocoder, Keyboard Bass, Spoken Word, Producer

VICTOR BAILEY - Bass
BOB MALACH - Tenor Saxophone, Woodwind
HARRY KIM - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
ALEJANDRO "Alex" ACUÑA - Percussion
MANOLO BADRENA - Percussion
DEAN BROWN - Guitar
ETIENNE M'BAPPE - Bass, Vocals
PACO SERY - Guitar, Percussion, Drums, Timbales, Kalimba, Production Assistant, Assistant Producer, Zildjian
AMITAVA CHATTERJEE - Guitar, Vocals
NATHANIEL TOWNSLEY - Drums
RICHARD BONA - Bass, Vocals

MARIA JOAO - Vocals
SABINE KABONGO - Vocals
LORI PERRY - Vocals
RICHARD PAGE - Vocals
CAROLYN PERRY - Vocals
DARLENE PERRY - Vocals
SHARON PERRY - Vocals
KITTY WINTER - Vocals

JOACHIM BECKER - Executive Producer
IVAN ZAWINUL - Co-Producer, Engineer, Mixing Engineer
SCOTT KINSEY - Production Assistant, Assistant Producer
PAUL ERICKSEN - Assistant Engineer
KLAUS GENUIT - Engineer
TED JENSEN - Mastering
GEORGE LANGE - Photography
JOACHIM OSTER - Cover Art Concept, Cover Design

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2002 CD ESC 03679
2002 CD ESC 4905

Surging with pulse-quickening grooves, drenched in Third World exotica, charged with improvisational abandon and teeming with typical machismo, Faces & Places is quintessential Joe Zawinul. Now in his 70th year, the maestro shows no signs of slowing down artistically as he pushes the envelope on this exhilarating ride. Indeed, the ever-prolific, relentlessly creative synth wizard and bandleader seems to bring his keyboard virtuosity, expansive pan-global vision and Austrian soul to a laser-like focus on this extraordinary outing. Once again, he is accompanied by an international cast including Cameroonian bassists Richard Bona and Etienne Mbappe, the incomparable Ivory Coast drummer Paco Sery, north Indians Amit Chatterjee on guitar and vocals and Zakir Hussain on tablas, Belgian-African singer Sabine Kabongo, Peruvian percussionist Alex Acuna, Venezuelan percussionist Rudy Regalado, Puerto Rican percussionist Manolo Badrena, Brazilian singer Maria Joao and Americans Dean Brown on guitar, Victor Bailey on bass and Bobby Malach on tenor saxophone.



Keyboardist/composer Joe Zawinul’s accomplishments with Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, and “Weather Report,” amid his revolutionary approach to synths cannot be undermined. In some instances, artists such as Zawinul set paradigms of excellence and inventiveness that might seem difficult to repeat. Naturally, the listener shouldn’t expect any performer to continually rest on his or her laurels, or abide by a proven or perhaps unwavering formula. To that end, Zawinul’s 2002 solo effort seems to be a summarization of his recent jazz/fusion/world music stylizations, witnessed by his “Zawinul Syndicate, band.” As this solo effort offers more of the same. Here, the keyboardist enlists a multinational cast of percussionists (including ex-Weather Report personnel), vocalists, and soloists for an album that more or less mirrors his recent output. Regrettably, few if any of these works impart a permanent impression. Many of these arrangements feature Zawinul’s wily synth passages and otherworldly Vocoder (digital EFX) based vocalise. He pays homage to his former employer, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley on the piece titled, “The Spirit of Julian “C” Adderley.” While the basis for this production entails an array of rather predictable “world beat” style discourses consisting of shifting percussion vamps, North African modalities, and quaint Austrian folk melodies. Sure, there are some touching moments to complement a few rousing opuses, yet this recording suffers from an overly routine, or habitual approach. Overall, there are some compelling musical events to coincide with what appears to be a hodgepodge of contrasting notions stitched together.

Glenn Astarita - All Music Guide
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"Meine musikalischen Motive drehen sich mehr oder weniger darum, zu reisen, etwas von der Welt zu sehen und dann zu versuchen, meine Eindrücke in die Musik einfließen zu lassen." Kein Zufall also, dass der Opener auf Joe Zawinuls Album Faces & Places "Search" heißt. Das Werk der vielen Gesichter und Orte ist übrigens genau zum 70. Geburtstag des österreichischen Keyboarders fertig geworden. Es kommt wie eine ausschweifende Party daher. Und zu der hat Zawinul eine Reihe illustrer Gäste aus aller Welt eingeladen: den Kameruner Bassisten Richard Bona zum Beispiel, von Zawinul selbst in New York entdeckt, den Schlagzeuger Paco Sery von der Elfenbeinküste, die belgisch-afrikanische Sängerin Sabine Kabongo (Ex-Zap-Mama), Zakir Hussain an den Tablas oder die US-Fusion-Musiker Dean Brown (Gitarre) und Victor Bailey (Bass). Mit ihnen startet Zawinul zu einer rasanten Tour rund um den Globus.

Da geht es nach Bombay ("Tower Of Silence") oder in Zawinuls Geburtsstadt Wien ("Rooftops Of Vienna"), nach Nordafrika ("Café Andalusia") oder ins exotische Irgendwo ("Barefoot Beauty"). Weltumspannende Visionen hatte der Klangtüftler und ehemalige Miles-Davis-Pianist spätestens mit seiner eigenen Band Weather Report zu Gehör gebracht. Jetzt, immer noch auf der Höhe seines musikalischen Schaffens, gibt sich Zawinul experimentierfreudiger denn je. Gleichzeitig zollt er seinem alten Meister Tribut: dem Altsaxofonisten "Cannonball" Adderley, mit dem Zawinul neun Jahre lang spielte und tourte. Wie Adderley bewegt sich auch Zawinul auf dem Grat zwischen Intellektualität und Straßenleben; beides kommt atmosphärisch wunderbar in "East 12th Street Band" zur Geltung: einer Liebeserklärung an Zawinuls ehemaliges Zuhause in New York.

Dass Zawinul immer wieder für Überraschungen sorgen kann, zeigt vielleicht am besten der Zweiteiler "Borges Buenos Aires". In dieser Hommage an den argentinischen Dichter Jorge Luis Borges erhält auch der Tango ein völlig neues Gesicht: verhaltene Melancholie durchdringt hoch komplexe Rhythmen. Wohin sich Zawinul mit seinen Musikern auch begibt, Faces & Places klingt kraftvoll, hintergründig, elektrisierend und stets groovy. Happy Birthday!

Roman Rhode - Amazon.de
 

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