Joe Zawinul

In celebration of Joe Zawinul’s birthday on July 7, noted author and Weather Report scholar Bill Milkowski presents his top ten tracks by the influential keyboardist and composer.

Like some fellow Austrians before him, Mozart, Haydn and Mahler, keyboardist Joe Zawinul deserves a place in the upper echelon of composers. Exhibit A for…

“We’re going to play this beautiful tune by Leonard Bernstein,” says alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley at one point on Swingin' in Seattle: Live at the…