Dialects

Dialects Artist: Joe Zawinul
Label: Sony
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 696998629622
EAN: 0696998629622
ASIN: B000069JIQ


Release Date: 2002-07-16

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Listmania:

  1. Fuison-Is It The Flowing Or The Firey That's More Effective?
  2. Best Prog You Never Heard
  3. WORLD PROG, NO WORDS FROM HELL
  4. The best stuff by Joe Zawinul

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

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  3. The Rise & Fall of the Third Stream/Money in the Pocket
  4. My People
  5. Night Passage

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!.......2003-11-14

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.......2003-05-13

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.

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  2. Little Johnny C ~ Johnny Coles
  3. 'Round About Midnight ~ Miles Davis
  4. Everything I Play Is Funky ~ Lou Donaldson
  5. Summertime ~ Paul Desmond
  6. Endangered Species ~ Jimmy Herring, T. Lavitz, Richie Hayward, Kenny
  7. The Benny Goodman Story ~ Benny Goodman
  8. Butterfly ~ Special EFX
  9. Second Movement ~ Eddie Harris & Les McCann
  10. Contours ~ Sam Rivers

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Shot From the Saddle ~ Decoys

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