Time: 39:44
Size: 91.0 MB
Styles: Hard bop
Year: 2009
Art: Front
[3:40] 1. One For Newk
[4:50] 2. Money In The Pocket
[6:25] 3. Walk Tall
[5:55] 4. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
[4:56] 5. Mystified
[5:27] 6. Scotch & Water
[4:32] 7. Country Preacher
[3:55] 8. Sticks
During his fifty year career, Joe Zawinul pioneered the development of many jazz styles. Together with Cannonball Adderley he added Soul to Jazz, and with Miles Davis, on those classic recordings In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew, he invented Electric Jazz. Later , with Weather Report and his Zawinul Syndicate he included ethnical elements to create a borderless, panglobal jazz music.
After his death in 2007, JazzXChange took on the challenge of paying tribute to the keyboard wizard who is still the most important European in the history of jazz. Their new album, Walk Tall, recorded for BlueNote Germany, contains a selection of tunes composed by the Austrian ambassador of music back in the 1960’s during his time with the Cannonball Adderley Band.
These early compositions of Josef Erich Zawinul include the title track Walk Tall (written in honour of Martin Luther King), Mercy Mercy Mercy (best selling jazz recording at that time with over a million copies sold), Scotch and Water, Country Preacher and more. These are interpreted by JazzXChange respectfully and with great musical ingenuity. JazzXChange dismantles and then reassembles the components of these classics, but maintains their essence to deliver a compact and tasty sound.
In 2006, with their debut album Well, You Needn't, JazzXChange turned tunes by Sonny Rollins, Milt Jackson, Benny Golson, Thelonious Monk, Joe Henderson etc. into modern jazz stylings. The extensive reviews by print media, television and radio focused not only on a great debut by this German outfit, but also recognized the unusual personnel of the band. Next to the most experienced professionals of the European jazz scene were two prominent German businessmen: August-Wilhelm Scheer, founder of IDS Scheer and member of the supervisory board of SAP and Werner Seifert, CEO of Deutsche Boerse until 2005. After hearing August’s articulate baritone sax and Werner’s bluesy keyboard style on Well, You Needn't , the media took up the transition from manager to musician with a big halo with headlines such as From stock exchange to JazzXChange. Amongst the vast publicity for the two unconventional managers, the (actual) music lost out from time to time in the media reporting. Now the excitement has cooled a little, the new album, Walk Tall should earn more space in the music pages rather than the business section of the papers. The new album, with it’s first rate musicianship, has certainly earned that right.
After his death in 2007, JazzXChange took on the challenge of paying tribute to the keyboard wizard who is still the most important European in the history of jazz. Their new album, Walk Tall, recorded for BlueNote Germany, contains a selection of tunes composed by the Austrian ambassador of music back in the 1960’s during his time with the Cannonball Adderley Band.
These early compositions of Josef Erich Zawinul include the title track Walk Tall (written in honour of Martin Luther King), Mercy Mercy Mercy (best selling jazz recording at that time with over a million copies sold), Scotch and Water, Country Preacher and more. These are interpreted by JazzXChange respectfully and with great musical ingenuity. JazzXChange dismantles and then reassembles the components of these classics, but maintains their essence to deliver a compact and tasty sound.
In 2006, with their debut album Well, You Needn't, JazzXChange turned tunes by Sonny Rollins, Milt Jackson, Benny Golson, Thelonious Monk, Joe Henderson etc. into modern jazz stylings. The extensive reviews by print media, television and radio focused not only on a great debut by this German outfit, but also recognized the unusual personnel of the band. Next to the most experienced professionals of the European jazz scene were two prominent German businessmen: August-Wilhelm Scheer, founder of IDS Scheer and member of the supervisory board of SAP and Werner Seifert, CEO of Deutsche Boerse until 2005. After hearing August’s articulate baritone sax and Werner’s bluesy keyboard style on Well, You Needn't , the media took up the transition from manager to musician with a big halo with headlines such as From stock exchange to JazzXChange. Amongst the vast publicity for the two unconventional managers, the (actual) music lost out from time to time in the media reporting. Now the excitement has cooled a little, the new album, Walk Tall should earn more space in the music pages rather than the business section of the papers. The new album, with it’s first rate musicianship, has certainly earned that right.
Walk Tall: Tribute To Joe Zawinul