The Zawinul Syndicate live at Leverkusener Jazztage 2002

The Zawinul Syndicate:

Joe Zawinul, keyboards, vocals

Amit Chatterjee, guitar
Etienne M´Bappe, bass, vocals
Paco Sery, drums, kalimba, vocals
Manolo Badrena, percussion, vocals
Sabine Kabongo, vocals
Maria João, vocals

recorded live at Leverkusener Jazztage 2002, Germany, November, 2002

Tracklist:
1. East 12th Street Band
2. Zansa
3. Café Andalusia
4. Borges Buenos Aires

This edition of the Syndicate plays its own repertoire known from the albums "Faces & Places" and "Vienna Nights". BHM/ Bird Jam just released a new CD by Zawinul:

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The Zawinul Syndicate live at Leverkusener Jazztage 2001

The Zawinul Syndicate:

Joe Zawinul, keyboards, vocals

Amit Chatterjee, guitar
Etienne M´Bappe, bass, vocals
Paco Sery, drums, vocals
Lelo Nika, accordion
Otto Lechner, accordion

recorded live at Leverkusener Jazztage 2001, Germany, October 19, 2001

Tracklist:
1. Indescretions
2. Lelo Nika
3. Otto Lechner
4. Zansa II
5. Bimoya

This is a very special concert: Joe Zawinul revisiting his first instrument, the accordion he used to play - and prepare- during his childhood in Austria. In this concert he meets two true masters of the accordion: Lelo Nika from Serbia and his fellow Asutrian Otto Lechner.
The Zawinul Syndicate visited the North Sea Jazz Festival earlier the same year. I´ve got only one track of this concert, so I post it as a "bonus track". It´s "Borges Buenos Aires", feat. Joe Zawinul, keyboards, Maria João, vocals, Amit Chatterjee, guitar, Etienne M´Bappe, bass, vocals, Nathaniel Townsley, drums & Manolo Badrena, percussion.

Joe Zawinul Syndicate live at Fabrik Hamburg 1996

The Zawinul Syndicate:

Joe Zawinul, keyboards, vocals

Amit Chatterjee, guitar
Richard Bona, bass, vocals
Mokhtar Samba, percussion, vocals
Abdou Mboup, drums

recorded live at Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany, November 16, 1996

Tracklist:
1. Introduction to a Mighty Theme
2. Waraya
3. Indescretions
4. Slivovitz Trail
5. Mi Gente

A quite short living edition of the Syndicate, this line up ist the most african I know playing the classic Syndicate repertoire on their own way...