Josef Erich Zawinul (born July 7, 1932 in Vienna, Austria) is a jazz keyboardist and composer.
Zawinul, along with Corea and Hancock, was one of the first to integrate electric pianos and early synthesizers like the ARP 2600 in 73's Sweetnighter.
Joe Zawinul is often credited with aiding revolutionary bass guitar virtuoso Jaco Pastorius in his rise to popularity by giving him the position as bass guitarist for Weather Report in the mid 1970's.
Zawinul's curiosity and openness to all kinds of sounds made him one of the driving forces behind the electronic jazz-rock revolution of the late..
Zawinul's curiosity and openness to all kinds of sounds made him one of the driving forces behind the electronic jazz-rock revolution of the late '60s and '70s -- and later, he would be almost alone in exploring fusions between jazz-rock and ethnic music from all over the globe.
Zawinul has also shown renewed interest in his European roots, collaborating with fellow Viennese classical pianist Friedrich Gulda from 1987 to 1994, producing a full-blown classically-based symphony Stories of the Danube in 1993, and following the near-disastrous Malibu fires of 1994, moving from California to New York City in order to be closer to Europe.
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