Recordings from
Persona Digital Studio
Pieces by Bands and Musicians
we have arranged, performed
and recorded

Beatles
Bob Marely
Bread
Chicago
Creedance Clearwater Revival
Dave Sanborn
Dizzie Gillespie
Eagles Erasure
Herbie Hancock  
Huey Lewis
Jennifer Rush
Joe Zawinul
John Denver
Joni Mitchell
JS Bach
Linda Ronstadt
Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
Mozart
Pat Metheny
Queen
Rippingtons
Steely Dan
Stephen Gislason
Stevie Nicks
Tom Jobim and João Gilberto
Wayne Shorter
 

Recordings from Persona Digital
Recording Arts and Science
P2500 Band
Persona Classical Consort
Em4U
Stephen Gislason

The Sound of Music

All About Sound

Joe Zawinul

Joe Zawinul was a multifaceted, innovative man who is considered a pioneer in electronic music and studio production since the early 60’s. He was a major composer and player of jazz innovations involved with  the Weather Report, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Santana, Salif Keïta, and his own band, the Zawinul Syndicate. 

Weather Report, featured Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul and Jacob Pastorius.  Zawinul, a jazz keyboardist and composer pioneered the use of synthesizers and was widely admired. He won the "Best Keyboardist" award 30 times from American jazz magazine.

Paul Tingen described him at age 70: “he's got more energy than men half his age…last year he released a wholly contemporary-sounding album with the Zawinul Syndicate, Faces & Places, and embarked on a lengthy world tour. His band has been called "the hottest band in jazz today" with boiling, uptempo grooves that would wear out people half his age. And is he thinking of retiring? No way. "I can play another 20 years, man," he declared with a grin… Joe Zawinul has gone so deeply into African-American music, and has had such a big impact on it, that he has been called the "greatest white black musician alive" in the US. He's also been voted the best keyboard player in jazz 21 times in the American jazz magazine Downbeat.

In 1965, Zawinul wrote the Cannonball band's greatest hit, 'Mercy, Mercy, Mercy'. Zawinul used the Wurlitzer electric piano, first introduced in 1959 by Ray Charles. “ *

The Trinity P2500 recorded a Stephen Gislason arrangement of Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, the Zawinul/Adderley hit of 1965 and Birdland, a hit for Weather Report

* Paul Tingen. Joe Zawinul, Jazz Keyboardist Published in Sound On Sound June 2003

Play  Birdland  and Mercy Mercy Mercy  by Trinity P2500 Band

See Wayne Shorter   Miles Davis

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Persona Digital Studio is located on the Sunshine Coast, Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada. www.personadigitalstudio.com  email  music@personadigitalstudio.com. Our Music catalogue includes recorded performances by the P2500 Band, Em4U, and the Persona Classical Consort. Music downloads are available from iTunes, Napster, AmazonMP3 and from our companion website: Persona Digital.  We have enjoyed association with Reverb Nation who provides an online service for musicians to present and market their music.