Zawinul Syndicate Articles

Early Zawinul Syndicate featuring Gerald Veasley: March of the Lost Children

Here’s a live performance, recorded for German television in 1989, featuring the Zawinul Syndicate with Scott Henderson on guitar, Gerald Veasley on bass, Cornell Rochester on drums, Bill Summers on percussion, and of course, the great Joe Zawinul on keyboards.
The tune is “March of the Lost Children” from the Syndicate’s first release, The Immigrants in [...]

Zawinul Syndicate with Richard Bona live ‘96

Here’s a video performance from the 1996 Hamburg Jazz fest, featuring Joe Zawinul’s band with Richard Bona on bass, Amit Chatterjee on guitar, Mokhtar Samba on drums and Abdou Mboup and percussion.
Zawinul was promoting his just-released My People album.

Zawinul Syndicate with Richard Bona: Carnavalito

The Zawinul Syndicate’s performance at the North Sea Jazz festival in 1997 included Richard Bona on bass, and all of the videos I’ve seen from that performance have been stellar.
This live performance of “Carnavalito”, originally recorded on the Black Water album, features Zawinul’s Weather Report bandmate Manolo Badrena on percussion and vocals, with newcomers Paco [...]

Linley Marthe: Solo at New Morning

Here we’ve got a great solo by Linley Marthe, during a performance with The Zawinul Syndicate at New Morning in Paris.
You can also catch Marthe playing on Hadrien Feraud’s solo album.

Zawinul Syndicate with Linley Marthe: Fast City

Right up until the end of his life, Joe Zawinul could still bring it (and pick bass players).
Check out the Zawinul Syndicate’s version of Weather Report’s “Fast City”, a tune originally recorded for the Jaco Pastorius-era Night Passage album.
Bassist Linley Marthe is a monster on this one.

This clip comes from the Syndicate’s “75th” [...]