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This is an excellent double album of frequently fast-and-furious music which mercifully shows no sign of complacency. Along with saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Zawinul was a founder member of Weather Report and could simply have cruised along for years fronting cloned line-ups had he chosen to do so. Instead, his music has continued to develop, frequently abandoning the visceral hooks of even good jazz-rock in favour of extended riffy backdrops which enable the musical expertise of his side-people to come to the fore. The Syndicate is heavily driven by the virtuoso drums and percussion section ofmore… Paco Sery and Manolo Badrena respectively, to the extent that Zawinul has publicly acknowledged Sery as a motive force behind the band. In musical terms, this gives a cranked-up Afro-Latin feel to much of the group's music, which sets sheer adrenaline against Zawinul's compositional talents in a near-perfect balance. There's also a meditative piano interlude which works very well and a few horribly cheesy keyboard sounds which absolutely do not, but overall there's very little to quarrel with here. --Roger Thomas

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Music > Albums

Case Type:

CD

Release Type:

Retail

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Cover Info:

Title:

Joe Zawinul - World Tour (1998) Retail CD

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Back

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1771 x 1383 px

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315 KB

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