One day I heard a pianist play Honeysuckle Rose,' ... and I was hooked. I said, What is that' He said, jazz,' which was a word I had never heard, and I asked him to spell it for me. My life was changed after that.
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At a spry 72 with five decades of innovative performing now behind him, does Zawinul know where jazz itself is heading I have no idea, ... but as a good improviser, I know where it is not the past.Joe Zawinul
It was great music, ... but it has passed. It is wonderful to recall it, fun to hear it, but that is not for me I get too restless, too bored I need something new.
Joe Zawinul
I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.
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Weather Report, the massively popular and longest-continually-performing fusion band, is often cited as a major influence by artists around the world, but according to Zawinul, particularly in Africa. Musicians from Africa know Weather Report music inside and out, ... but often didn't knew who was playing it because it would be distributed on pirated cassettes that had no labels. Many such players couldn't believe that some of us were white.
Joe Zawinul
Boxing is such a great sport and so much like making jazz music, ... There is the footwork, the jab, the constant setting up and reacting to your opponent.
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