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Joe Zawinul

1932 - 2007

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joe Zawinul is the 334th most popular musician (down from 319th in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from Austria (up from 348th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Musician.

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Joe Zawinul ranks 334 out of 3,175. Before him are Cozy Powell, Narciso Yepes, Sean Lennon, Sidney Bechet, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, and Jean-Pierre Rampal. After him are Fats Domino, Friedrich Gulda, André Previn, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Sérgio Mendes, and Ian Stewart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Joe Zawinul ranks 104. Before him are Emmanuelle Arsan, Pier Angeli, Wojciech Kilar, Nagisa Oshima, José Saraiva Martins, and Antonio Tejero. After him are Naina Yeltsina, Eleanor F. Helin, Quino, Alan Bean, Wolf Vostell, and Gunter Sachs. Among people deceased in 2007, Joe Zawinul ranks 66. Before him are Norman Mailer, Robert Adler, Jupp Derwall, Jaan Kross, Michel Serrault, and Anna Nicole Smith. After him are Rudolf Arnheim, Magda Szabó, Marcheline Bertrand, Petar Stambolić, Ousmane Sembène, and Lady Bird Johnson.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Joe Zawinul ranks 337 out of 1,424. Before him are Alexander Wienerberger (1891), Adam Albert von Neipperg (1775), Jean Améry (1912), Othenio Abel (1875), Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria (1801), and Felix Baumgartner (1969). After him are Friedrich Gulda (1930), Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793), Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria (1878), Brigitte Bierlein (1949), Archduchess Barbara of Austria (1539), and Hermann Buhl (1924).

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Among MUSICIANS In Austria

Among musicians born in Austria, Joe Zawinul ranks 9. Before him are Baroness Mary Vetsera (1871), Fritz Kreisler (1875), Karl Thomas Mozart (1784), Joseph Joachim (1831), Anton Diabelli (1781), and Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759). After him are Friedrich Gulda (1930), Paul Wittgenstein (1887), Paul Badura-Skoda (1927), Willi Boskovsky (1909), Annie Fischer (1914), and Anton Karas (1906).

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