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Joe Zawinul

1932 - 2007

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Josef Erich Zawinul ( ZOV-in-əl; 7 July 1932 – 11 September 2007) was an Austrian jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, a musical genre that combined jazz with rock. He co-founded the groups Weather Report and The Zawinul Syndicate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Zawinul has received more than 986,477 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Joe Zawinul is the 319th most popular musician (down from 251st in 2019), the 348th most popular biography from Austria (down from 307th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Musician.

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  • 990k

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  • 64.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Joe Zawinul ranks 319 out of 3,175. Before him are Robby Krieger, Don Airey, Fats Domino, Manu Dibango, Stevie Young, and Per Gessle. After him are Lee Soo-man, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Friedrich Gulda, Djivan Gasparyan, Sonny Rollins, and Léo Ferré.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Joe Zawinul ranks 102. Before him are Dudley R. Herschbach, Michael Smith, Delphine Seyrig, Oleg Protopopov, Wojciech Kilar, and Ingemar Johansson. After him are Antonio Tejero, Rodion Shchedrin, Paolo Villaggio, Wolf Vostell, Amrish Puri, and Joseph Zen. Among people deceased in 2007, Joe Zawinul ranks 63. Before him are Jaan Kross, Abbé Pierre, Ettore Sottsass, Sol LeWitt, Jean-Pierre Vernant, and Jupp Derwall. After him are Colin McRae, Marcheline Bertrand, Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Jordan, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, and Gianfranco Ferré.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Joe Zawinul ranks 348 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria (1872), Hans Krankl (1953), Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy (1714), Toni Sailer (1935), Otto Gross (1877), and Helene Weigel (1900). After him are Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858), René Spitz (1887), Matthäus Hetzenauer (1924), Vicki Baum (1888), Theodor Körner (1873), and Friedrich Gulda (1930).

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Among MUSICIANS In Austria

Among musicians born in Austria, Joe Zawinul ranks 9. Before him are Baroness Mary Vetsera (1871), Fritz Kreisler (1875), Karl Thomas Mozart (1784), Joseph Joachim (1831), Anton Diabelli (1781), and Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759). After him are Friedrich Gulda (1930), Paul Wittgenstein (1887), Willi Boskovsky (1909), Annie Fischer (1914), Paul Badura-Skoda (1927), and Henri Herz (1803).

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