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Additionally, he made pioneering use of electric piano and synthesizers. Zawinul was named \"Best Electric Keyboardist\" 28 times by the readers of Down Beat magazine.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral artists have honored Zawinul with songs, notably Brian Eno's instrumental \"Zawinul/Lava\", John McLaughlin's instrumental \"Jozy\", Warren Cuccurullo's \"Hey Zawinul\", Bob Baldwin's \"Joe Zawinul\", and Biréli Lagrène's instrumental \"Josef\". Zawinul's playing style is often dominated by quirky melodic improvisations —both bebop, ethnic and pop sounding— combined with sparse but rhythmic playing of big-band sounding chords or bass lines. In Weather Report, he often employed a vocoder as well as pre-recorded sounds played (i.e. filtered and transposed) through a synthesizer, creating a very distinctive synthesis of jazz harmonics and \"noise\" (\"using all the sounds the world generates\").\u003c/p\u003e","musicPath":"/music/Joe+Zawinul","playStationPath":"/stations/250846614/play","stationId":250846614,"bioPath":"/music/Joe+Zawinul/_full_bio","similars":[{"musicPath":"/music/Brand+X","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/4f1/4f1c5f63aa3ae4f4bb13767d510d37fb_md.jpg","artistName":"Brand X","artistId":108121,"station_id":281862793},{"musicPath":"/music/Lee+Ritenour","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/f4d/f4d8f92be20a36c8b84f01740421f314_md.jpg","artistName":"Lee Ritenour","artistId":7722,"station_id":113371430},{"musicPath":"/music/Victor+Wooten","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/acf/acf81ac47b06aed3f6c7e61709c799c3_md.jpg","artistName":"Victor Wooten","artistId":11087,"station_id":113296050},{"musicPath":"/music/Passport","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/e43/e43e663ac7cec9b974b2548e61587a5c_md.jpg","artistName":"Passport","artistId":112605,"station_id":282360193},{"musicPath":"/music/Brian+Bromberg","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/ca7/ca721704e80bd427d5bc0e89588c3c6b_md.jpg","artistName":"Brian Bromberg","artistId":64565,"station_id":263734982},{"musicPath":"/music/Tower+of+Power","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/575/575fd7ecbcdc295b5dda3c3d7905a251_md.jpg","artistName":"Tower of Power","artistId":8565,"station_id":113379318},{"musicPath":"/music/Greg+Howe","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/caf/cafe5e785086559d86c1351252c40b6f_md.jpg","artistName":"Greg Howe","artistId":101799,"station_id":280763896},{"musicPath":"/music/Freddie+Hubbard","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/73e/73eb2444d9008335a102ca6b6ec2b9e3_md.jpg","artistName":"Freddie Hubbard","artistId":4227,"station_id":113545955},{"musicPath":"/music/Terje+Rypdal","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/728/728355f2967af480dec941f820c7d865_md.jpg","artistName":"Terje Rypdal","artistId":115555,"station_id":282865596},{"musicPath":"/music/Christian+McBride","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/dcc/dccaf913acf7c22e0f7b7d56a50c5303_md.jpg","artistName":"Christian McBride","artistId":94657,"station_id":287828070},{"musicPath":"/music/Snarky+Puppy","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/103/103b587392e3f7bf528894148b8a0520_md.jpg","artistName":"Snarky Puppy","artistId":135105,"station_id":286143540},{"musicPath":"/music/Scott+Henderson","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/163/16307617e591f5ee8770b432930759df_md.jpg","artistName":"Scott Henderson","artistId":121873,"station_id":283708869},{"musicPath":"/music/Bill+Evans","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/f7a/f7af68f0879dd13f5d28a5792ad49a35_md.jpg","artistName":"Bill Evans","artistId":6989,"station_id":113271839},{"musicPath":"/music/Bill+Frisell","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/5a1/5a1a8e1962bc19ed6d1f2f3dfc06e42e_md.jpg","artistName":"Bill Frisell","artistId":11358,"station_id":113428000},{"musicPath":"/music/Niacin","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/60c/60c0c972a4908aac4f18b08c2243b2e5_md.jpg","artistName":"Niacin","artistId":107496,"station_id":281862524},{"musicPath":"/music/Joe+Farrell","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/281/281c2ad2e0bdd095c547fd2abeecf78e_md.jpg","artistName":"Joe Farrell","artistId":119278,"station_id":283254372},{"musicPath":"/music/Michael+Brecker","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/c3a/c3a8e7c31b446be200d9bf8115373963_md.jpg","artistName":"Michael Brecker","artistId":2771,"station_id":113372670},{"musicPath":"/music/John+Patitucci","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/7d2/7d2d3a19de91497551da6a67010ef197_md.jpg","artistName":"John Patitucci","artistId":95489,"station_id":276275327}]}