Joe Zawinul: Solo

Joe Zawinul was a giant of Austrian jazz; a keyboard student at the Vienna Conservatoire who collaborated with Miles Davis, Friedrich Gulda and Cannonball Adderley before – with his genre-defining jazz fusion outfit Weather Report – spearheading a minor revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. But you don't get named "Best Electric Keyboardist" 28 times by Down Beat magazine without some serious solo chops, and at the 1985 Munich Klaviersommer Zawinul is in his element and at his peak: an epic, 60-minute sequence of keyboard improvisations in which he roams freely over an ear-dazzling array of state-of-the art synths.