Joe Zawinul - Money In The Pocket (1966) [EAC-FLAC]

Joe Zawinul - Money In The Pocket (1966)
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Features 24 bit remastering. The late, great Joe Zawinul is most fondly remembered for Weather Report and for his later leadership of one of the best world-jazz fusion bands, the Zawinul Syndicate.

Money in the Pocket, however, represents the Zawinul story earlier on, in 1965, after he had been playing in Cannonball Adderley's band for four years.

That band's catchy themes were significantly influenced both by Adderley's gospel roots and by Zawinul's melodic powers, and this session reflects the driving grooves of that popular soul-jazz style – so there are a lot of backbeats, repeating riffs, horn-harmony wailing and stagey stop-time breaks.

But if some of this is generic early jazz-funk, Zawinul's piano-playing reveals his sophistication and sumptuous elegance, notably on solo outings such as the ballad My One and Only Love.

The funky Some More of Dat is squarely in Lee Morgan's Sidewinder mode, but the closing Del Sasser shows how complete a jazz pianist Zawinul already was by this time, and what a distinctive composer, too.
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Tracklist:
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01 - Money In The Pocket
02 - If
03 - My One And Only Love
04 - Midnight Mood
05 - Some More Of Dat
06 - Sharon's Waltz
07 - Riverbed
08 - Del Sasser

*1966, 2012 Atlantic / Rhino / Warner Japan / WEA | WPCR-27016
{2012 Japan 24-bit Remaster} [Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series]
Personnel:
Joe Zawinul - piano
Blue Mitchell - trumpet
Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone
Clifford Jordan - tenor saxophone
Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone
Sam Jones - bass
Bob Cranshaw - bass
Louis Hayes - drums
Roy McCurdy - drums
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