Dialects

Dialects

Dialects

ASIN: B000069JIQ

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Joe Zawinul's 1986 Dialects, the keyboard legend's first solo album after 15 years with Weather Report, is worth revisiting. Featuring essentially only Zawinul on a virtual army of synthesizers (with some occasional contributions from Bobby McFerrin and a three-part vocal choir), Dialects is at once an apt summation of the veteran Austrian keyboardist's career-long affinity for synthesizers and an interesting portent of the world-music direction he would take. Although some of the drum-machine grooves here sound a bit dated now, Dialects is heady stuff, right from CD opener "The Harvest," a journey into 1980s techno-funk oriented more toward sonic effect than lyrical content. Other tracks like "Waiting for the Rain" and "6 A.M./Walking on the Nile" more explicitly evoke the world-music sounds Zawinul was to explore with his own Zawinul Syndicate soon after he recorded this album. On these tracks Zawinul mimics a variety of Brazilian and African indigenous instruments with his synths. Although in some ways Dialects resembles the music Herbie Hancock was making in the 1980's--in particular Hancock's 1984 foray into world music/techno funk, Sound System--it's unmistakably the work of its creator, filled with the kind of soulful synthesizer work Zawinul had been creating with Weather Report since the early 1970s. --Ezra Gale

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Introducing the Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble
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    		Introducing the Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble
    Akoya
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    ASIN: B000CAG3QI
    Release Date: 2007-03-20
    Senku - Piano Music by Composers of African Descent
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • An impressive collection, stunningly performed
    • Colorful, Creative, Brilliant!!!
    		 Senku - Piano Music by Composers of African Descent

    Manufacturer: MSR Classics
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
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    ASIN: B0000WZY5O
    Release Date: 2003-10-21

    Tracks:

    1. Ukom
    2. Lulu
    3. Egwu Amala
    4. No.1
    5. No.2
    6. No.3
    7. Scherzo
    8. Deep River
    9. Troubled Water
    10. Variations on an Egyptian Folksong
    11. Prelude: Night
    12. His Song
    13. Honey: Humoresque
    14. Barcarolle: Morning
    15. Dance: Juba
    16. Earthbeats, Op.22

    Album Description

    William H. Chapman Nyaho, a Ghanaian American, was schooled in Ghana, and later received degrees from St. Peter's College, Oxford University, Eastman School of Music and the University of Texas at Austin. He also studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève. Following a four-year residency as a North Carolina Visiting Artist, Chapman Nyaho taught at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was the recipient of the 1998 University of Southwestern Louisiana Distinguished Professor Award and the 1998 Acadiana Arts Council Distinguished Artist Award, and held the Heymann Endowed Professorship.

    Chapman Nyaho's performing experience includes recitals in Africa, Europe, North America and the Caribbean. He has performed as soloist with orchestras across the southern United States. Among his engagements, which include performing chamber music, Nyaho performs regularly as duo pianist with the Nyaho/Garcia Duo which has released a compact disc titled "Aaron Copland: Music For Two Pianos". Chapman Nyaho has been featured on radio and television broadcasts in Ghana, Switzerland, and National Public Radio in the USA. He developed and hosted The Bach Show for the classical radio station KRVS in Louisiana.

    Chapman Nyaho is presently an independent scholar, teacher and concert pianist residing in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. He is a regular guest clinician at colleges and universities, giving lecture-recitals and holding workshops advocating music by composers of the African Diaspora. He also serves as adjudicator for national and international piano competitions.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars An impressive collection, stunningly performed.......2004-04-07

    Since others have addressed Nyaho's stunning performances, I'd like to address the collection itself. These are not merely works by composers who happen to be of African descent; they are inspired and informed by ethnic influences. Joshua Uzoigwe's (Nigeria) "Talking Drums" juxtaposes the rhythmic and melodic characteristics found in African master drumming on the Ukom, Iyalu and small slit-drums, and are based on the Ukom scale and harmonic system. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's (USA) "Scherzo" is inspired by Chopin, blues and jazz. Gamal Abdel-Rahim's (Egypt) "Variations on an Egyptian Folksong" is compelling and intricate.

    But don't get me wrong...these are not intellectual exercises in nationalism. Each piece stands on its own musically, and the variety here makes this a compelling and wonderful CD from start to finish.

    5 out of 5 stars Colorful, Creative, Brilliant!!!.......2003-12-03

    Every now and then a recording comes along that is as important as it is unique.

    This is such a recording.

    I approached this CD with a desire to explore a back road of art music, in the hopes that I might find a hidden gem of inspiration, or even a piece to perform myself (I am also a pianist). What I found instead was a superhighway of talent and creativity that has somehow remained overlooked by the "mainstream" art music world.

    Pianist Nyaho Chapman presents us with an astonishing variety of compositions, ranging from the more conservative "In The Bottoms Suite" of Robert Nathaniel Dett or Margaret Bond's Troubled Water, to the more abstract "Talking Drums" of Joshua Uzoigwe or Earthbeats of Gyimah Labi. Mr. Chapman's performance of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's Scherzo surely proves him as one of the more brilliant pianists on the circuit. The piece is as relentless as it is physically demanding. And, like the other works on this disk, it is recorded with clarity and precision.

    I highly recommend this CD to anyone wishing to enrich their musical life.
    Dialects
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Great solo album
    • Stircrazy!
    • Excellent
    • Zawinul proves he is the ambassador of world music
    • Zawinul proves he is the ambassador of world music
    		 Dialects
    Joe Zawinul
    Manufacturer: Sony
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    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000069JIQ
    Release Date: 2002-07-16

    Tracks:

    1. The Harvest
    2. Waiting For The Rain
    3. Zeebop
    4. The Great Empire
    5. Carnavalito
    6. 6 A.M./Walking On The Nile
    7. Peace

    Amazon.com

    Joe Zawinul's 1986 Dialects, the keyboard legend's first solo album after 15 years with Weather Report, is worth revisiting. Featuring essentially only Zawinul on a virtual army of synthesizers (with some occasional contributions from Bobby McFerrin and a three-part vocal choir), Dialects is at once an apt summation of the veteran Austrian keyboardist's career-long affinity for synthesizers and an interesting portent of the world-music direction he would take. Although some of the drum-machine grooves here sound a bit dated now, Dialects is heady stuff, right from CD opener "The Harvest," a journey into 1980s techno-funk oriented more toward sonic effect than lyrical content. Other tracks like "Waiting for the Rain" and "6 A.M./Walking on the Nile" more explicitly evoke the world-music sounds Zawinul was to explore with his own Zawinul Syndicate soon after he recorded this album. On these tracks Zawinul mimics a variety of Brazilian and African indigenous instruments with his synths. Although in some ways Dialects resembles the music Herbie Hancock was making in the 1980's--in particular Hancock's 1984 foray into world music/techno funk, Sound System--it's unmistakably the work of its creator, filled with the kind of soulful synthesizer work Zawinul had been creating with Weather Report since the early 1970s. --Ezra Gale

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Great solo album.......2006-12-04

    This is Zawinul's solo album; he wrote everything and plays all the instruments. He also gets some assistance from Bobby Mcferrin and a handful of other singers on a few tracks. The liner notes title states, "Music for Solo Synthesizers and Voices". The singers, however stay in the background being part of the whole texture.

    I felt unsure about ordering the CD because I was used to him being surrounded by other geniuses; after a few listens I feel this work is at the level of the best Weather Report. The music is all about rythmic texture, loops, grooves, world music and african rythms; it all flows incredibly well and doesn't sound mechanical at all as some people might expect from an all-synth music.

    The keyboard work is tremendous. Lest we forget, Zawinul has won the "best keyboardist" in Down Beat 28 times. His biography states that he "...is one of a bare handful of synthesizer players who actually learned how to play the instrument, to make it an expressive, swinging part of his arsenal." This album is the finest example of his mastery.

    5 out of 5 stars Stircrazy!.......2003-11-15

    This album DROVE ME NUTS when I first listened to it on
    headphones!It's loud,synth-drenched world beat music with little to know funk,pop or jazz elements and DON'T let anyone fool you
    into thinking it's anything otherwise.Even the SLOW songs punch you out."The Harvest" and "Zeebop" are very rousing numbers but
    this will be an aquired taste,even if it is a extremely well
    played and performed album by a specacular musician.Check it out
    and see what YOU think!

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent.......2003-05-14

    Tight, vivid, energizing fusion of world sounds. The pace is alternately frenetic and contemplative, and the prevailing mood is one of joy. Worth checking out if you like fusion or synth-laced alternative rock.

    4 out of 5 stars Zawinul proves he is the ambassador of world music.......2002-07-24

    Joe Zawinul's self expression of 'dialects of the world' are truly dealt from his personal travels. Almost a solo album Joe expands on his unique rhythms and melodies with the vocal crew from 'Sportin' Life'. Bobby McFerrin's improv's are some of the best of his career. Almost as good as on Andreas'-Cosmopoly. The only thing keeping this effort from getting 5 stars is the very dated sounding drum programming(Dialects was first released in 1986). Joe could have made this as good as 'My People' with the help of a Peter Erskine, Omar Hakim orTrilok Gurtu. Each song, with lots of vocals and no lyrics, weaves the tale of the emotions each people must have experienced in each scenario. Highly recommended.

    4 out of 5 stars Zawinul proves he is the ambassador of world music.......2002-07-24

    Joe Zawinul's self expression of 'dialects of the world' are truly dealt from his personal travels. Almost a solo album Joe expands on his unique rhythms and melodies with the vocal crew from 'Sportin' Life'. Bobby McFerrin's improv's are some of the best of his career. Almost as good as on Andreas'-Cosmopoly. The only thing keeping this effort from getting 5 stars is the very dated sounding drum programming(Dialects was first released in 1986). Joe could have made this as good as 'My People' with the help of a Peter Erskine, Omar Hakim orTrilok Gurtu. Each song, with lots of vocals and no lyrics, weaves the tale of the emotions each people must have experienced in each scenario. Highly recommended.
    Dialects
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      		Dialects
      Joe Zawinul
      Manufacturer: Sony
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000P28RGW
      Release Date: 2007-06-04

      Tracks:

      1. Harvest
      2. Waiting for the Rain
      3. Zeebob
      4. Great Empire
      5. Carnavalito
      6. 6 A.M. /Walking on the Nile
      7. Peace

      Album Details

      Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
      Dialects
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Great solo album
      		 Dialects
      Joe Zawinul
      Manufacturer: Sony/Columbia
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B00006K0K1
      Release Date: 2002-11-04

      Tracks:

      1. Harvest
      2. Waiting for the Rain
      3. Zeebob
      4. Great Empire
      5. Carnavalito
      6. 6 A.M. /Walking on the Nile
      7. Peace

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Great solo album.......2006-12-04

      This is Zawinul's solo album; he wrote everything and plays all the instruments. He also gets some assistance from Bobby Mcferrin and a handful of other singers on a few tracks. The liner notes title states, "Music for Solo Synthesizers and Voices". The singers, however stay in the background being part of the whole texture.

      I felt unsure about ordering the CD because I was used to him being surrounded by other geniuses; after a few listens I feel this work is at the level of the best Weather Report. The music is all about rythmic texture, loops, grooves, world music and african rythms; it all flows incredibly well and doesn't sound mechanical at all as some people might expect from an all-synth music.

      The keyboard work is tremendous. Lest we forget, Zawinul has won the "best keyboardist" in Down Beat 28 times. His biography states that he "...is one of a bare handful of synthesizer players who actually learned how to play the instrument, to make it an expressive, swinging part of his arsenal." This album is the finest example of his mastery.
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        Dialects: The Best of GrassRoots Music, Vol. 1
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          		Dialects: The Best of GrassRoots Music, Vol. 1
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            Dialects
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
            • Wonderful Solo Album
            		 Dialects

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            ASIN: B000EGD002
            Release Date: 2006-04-25

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars Wonderful Solo Album.......2006-10-29

            This is Zawinul's solo album; he wrote everything and plays all the instruments. He also gets some assistance from Bobby Mcferrin and a handful of other singers on a few tracks. The liner notes title states, "Music for Solo Synthesizers and Voices". The singers, however stay in the background being part of the whole texture.

            I felt unsure about ordering the CD because I was used to him being surrounded by other geniuses; after a few listens I feel this work is at the level of the best Weather Report. The music is all about rythmic texture, loops, grooves, world music and african rythms; it all flows incredibly well and doesn't sound mechanical at all as some people might expect from an all-synth music.

            The keyboard work is tremendous. Lest we forget, Zawinul has won the "best keyboardist" in Down Beat 28 times. His biography states that he "...is one of a bare handful of synthesizer players who actually learned how to play the instrument, to make it an expressive, swinging part of his arsenal." This album is the finest example of his mastery.

            Dissonant Dialects
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              		Dissonant Dialects
              Soup of the Day
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