Joe Zawinul - My People

Long before the term World Music was coined, Joe Zawinul - renowned for his artistry as co-leader of Weather Report, leader of the Zawinul Syndicate and for performances with Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley - was a multi-cultural artist. In the early years of Weather Report, the seminal jazz/fusion band that keyboardist-composer Zawinul formed in 1970 with saxophonist-composer Wayne Shorter, the artist sometimes described their unique sounds as folk music of the 90�s and the group featured players from Europe, South America, the U.S. and other climes.Zawinul calls My People an ode to the world, music to lift everybody up. The recording is a vivacious mixture of instrumental and vocal music, an album of songs with ethnic origins in Africa, South America, the Caribbean but which ultimately have a universality anyone can relate to. Definitely pleased with My People, Zawinul calls it a hip, soulful album that you can dance to.