Saturday, October 12, 2013

Cannonball

The first piece of music to play on the internal jukebox this morning was Cannonball by Weather Report, Josef Zawinul's tribute to his late bandleader, Cannonball Adderley. It's one of Zawinul's finest and most moving compositions, in my opinion. 

As a young man studying music I loved the beauty of the piece. But I was also struck by the fact that it wasn't mournful or overly sentimental. The predominant emotion is joy, the joy that the two men shared together on stage, the vibrant relationship between the mentor and his brilliant student, not sadness for the older man's eventual demise. Cannonball is a brilliant tribute to Zawinul's old friend and one of the great jazz pioneers. 

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