Joe Zawinul has passed. The Viennese keyboard player wrote “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” for Cannonball Adderley, (later a hit for The Buckinghams) and was part of Miles Davis’s early fusion efforts including writing the title track to In a Silent Way and “Pharaoh’s Dance” on Bitches Brew. He’s best known, however, for founding Weather Report,…
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