Joe Zawinul: A Musical Portrait
by Mark Kidel
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Actor: Amit Chatterjee, Joe Zawinul, Linley Marthe, Nathaniel Townsley III, Sabine KabongoDirector: Mark Kidel
Brand: Naxos OF America INC
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; German (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; German (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Arthaus Musik
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Movie Review: A Musical Genius
Summary: 5 Stars
"Joe Zawinul: A Musical Portrait" is a short, almost too short, look into the musical genius that is Joe Zawinul. As a musician, Zawinul was obsessed with, and succeeded in turning out melodies "never heard before" (from the lyrics of "Can it be Done" Weather Report's Domino Theory album). He even reconfigured one of his keyboards to have inverted scales (high notes on the left, instead of the right) so he won't be too familiar and start playing conventional chords and repeating phrasings he has already used before.
As a young pianist, already playing with jazz legends (Maynard Ferguson, Cannonball Adderley), he used to play like his heroes, especially Oscar Peterson. until Cannonball pulled him aside one day and told him to "stop being ridiculous", that he was good enough to play like himself, not somebody else. So in his own words, he dropped some acid, sat on his piano and from thereon never played anything he has played before.
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