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Joe Zawinul

jazz and fusion keyboard player

Austria • 1932-07-07 – 2007-09-11

Joe Zawinul is credited on 3,829 releases across 777 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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3,829

Pressings credited

777

Albums

8

Decades active

939

In collections

Biography

Josef Erich Zawinul ( ZOV-in-əl; 7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, a musical genre that combined jazz with rock. He co-founded the groups Weather Report and The Zawinul Syndicate. He pioneered the use of electric piano and synthesizer, and was named "Best Electric Keyboardist" twenty-eight times by the readers of DownBeat magazine.

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3,829 releases · 777 albums · active 1956–2026

  • Performance · 12,739
  • Other credits · 1,104
  • Production · 566
  • Engineering · 79

Studios: Devonshire Studios · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Shibuya Kokaido · The Music Room

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