PUBLIC MARKS from itsatrap with tag "jazz fusion"

A music giant has left us. Josef Erich "Joe" Zawinul -- who established a new school of music with Miles Davis and led the seminal Weather Report with Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, et al. -- passed away Tuesday in his beloved Austria, appropriately in Vienna, the "city of musicians." He visited this planet for 75 short years and, had I my druthers, would have had 75 more productive seasons before his exit...