Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Domination - Hamburg Souvenirs 1969

Cannonball Adderley, alto saxophone
Nat Adderley, trumpet
Joe Zawinul, piano
Victor Gaskin, bass
Roy McCurdy, drums

recorded at NDR Studios Hamburg, March 1969

1. Rumpelstilzchen (Zawinul)
2. Sack o'woe (J.Adderley)
3. Experience in E (Zawinul)
4. Do do do (N.Adderley)
5. Early chanson (Zawinul)
6. I'm on my way (N.Adderley)
7. Domination (J.Adderley)

Weather Report live at Rockpalast Köln 1983

Wayne Shorter - tenor & soprano saxophones

Joe Zawinul - keyboards
Victor Bailey - bass
Omar Hakim - drums
Jose Rossy - percussion

recorded live Sartory Säle, Köln, Germany, May 13, 1983

Tracklist:
01 Procession
02 Fast City
03 The Peasant (a.k.a. Singapore)
04 Db Waltz
05 Blue Sound - Note 3 (Ballad)
06 Two Lines
07 Plaza Real
08 Medley
09 The Well
10 Where The Moon Goes

The post-Jaco edition of the greatest fusion band ever with the power house rhythm section featuring Victor Bailey and Omar Hakim. More info on this concert

WDR Big Band feat Joe Zawinul Celebrating the Music of Weather Report

The WDR Big Band
Vince Mendoza, conductor, arranger
Joe Zawinul, keyboards (on Db Waltz)
Scott Kinsey, keyboards
Victor Bailey, bass
Peter Erskine, drums
Alex Acuña, percussion

recorded live at Leverkusener Jazztage, November 6, 2002

Tracklist:
1. Fast City
2. Night Passage
3. Carnavalito
4. Badia/ Boogie Woogie Waltz
5. Db Waltz

This very special event was the beginning of Zawinul´s collaboration with the WDR Big Band that lead to the great album "Brown Street".

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.

The Zawinul Syndicate live at Leverkusener Jazztage 1999

The Zawinul Syndicate:

Joe Zawinul, keyboards, vocals

Gary Poulson, guitar
Victor Bailey, bass, vocals
Manolo Badrena, percussion, vocals
Karim Ziad, drums, vocals
Maria João, vocals

recorded live at Leverkusener Jazztage 1999, Germany, October 21, 1999

Tracklist:
1. Madagascar (Zawinul)
2. Louange (Ziad)
3. Do You Know (Pastorius/ Bailey)/ Badia (Zawinul)
4. Bimoya (Zawinul)

There´s a lot of Weather Report in this edition of the Syndicate: The former Weather Reporters Badrena and Bailey, their renditions of Madagascar and Badia and Victor Bailey´s tribute to Jaco in his version of the Pastorius tune "Continuum" ("Do You Know").

Joe Zawinul Syndicate live at Stadtgarten Köln 1997

The Zawinul Syndicate:

Joe Zawinul, keyboards, vocals

Gary Poulson, guitar
Richard Bona, bass, vocals
Manolo Badrena, percussion, vocals
Paco Sery, drums, kalimba, vocals

recorded live at Stadtgarten Köln, Germany,March 11, 1997

Tracklist:
1. Introduction to a Mighty Theme
2. Waraya
3. Erdäpfe Blues
4. Carnavalito/ In an Island Way
5. Slivovitz Trail
6. Indescretions

This is a classic Syndicate line up you can hear also on the great recording "World Tour" with the incredible tight rhythm section Bona, Sery and Badrena.

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...

Joe Zawinul Syndicate live at Stadtgarten Köln 1995

The Zawinul Syndicate:

Joe Zawinul, keyboards, vocals

Fareed Haque, guitar, sitar
Matthew Garrison, bass
Arto Tuncboyaciyan, percussion, vocals
Paco Sery, drums, kalimba, vocals

recorded live at Stadtgarten Köln, Germany, November 16, 1995

Tracklist:
1. Scarlet Woman (Zawinul/ Johnson)
2. Westafrican Traditional/ Armenian Traditional (Sery/Tuncboyaciyan)
3. Civilian Secret Police (Tuncboyaciyan/ Zawinul)
4. Introduction To a Mighty Theme
5. Waraya (S.Keita)
6. Doctor Honoris Causa (Zawinul)
7. Erdäpfe Blues (Zawinul)
8. Sultan (Orient Express) (Zawinul)

Zawinul calls this band an "Ausländerband" (band of aliens): Fareed Haque, the "sitar meister who practiced all his lifetime" is from Pakistan, Arto Tuncboyaciyan is from Armenia, Paco Sery from Ivory Coast, Matthew "Matteo" Garrison (the son of bass legend Jimmy Garrison) has an Italian mother and Zawinul himself is of course from Vienna...
This is the first concert of a Zawinul series I´ll post here...