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Scott Kinsey - the 'We Speak Luniwaz. The Music of Joe Zawinul' album - Jazzy hour, November 26th, 2019

Monday, 9 December 2019 , ora 9.41
 

Have you imagined understanding an unspoken language, but a wide-spread one amongst musicians and one appreciated by an audience with a certain level of knowledge on culture and musical appetite from the first time? Actually, Luniwaz, the reverse of its creator's name, is a language that you are more prone to feel than to understand and that is due to the ones that internalized it and passed it on to the public, meaning a group of fabulous musicians led by Scott Kinsey, one pf the most brilliant keyboardists from his generation and perhaps the best interpret of Joe Zawinul's music.

As musical director of the Zawinul Legacy Band project, Kinsey kept the spread of the huge artist's legacy from the Weather Report and Zawinul Syndicate period and "We speak Luniwaz" represents the climax, through the brilliant taking over of seven original titles plus a Wayne Shorter song and two own compositions.Together with bassist Hadrien Feraud, saxophonist Katisse Buckingham and drummer Gergo Borlai, Kinsey recreates notorious titles such as "Black Market", "Fast City" or "Cucumber Slumber", playing the Zawinul sound like no other, with a touch of groove and spur-of-the-moment improvisation.

Scott Kinsey took the language of the synthesizer to the highest level of our days, coming from the generation that put the electronic keyboard face to face with the acoustic piano in a relation of completion for the first time. Luniwaz is the perfect imaginary language, that can encompass any coherent expression, formed by chosen sounds, in a way that all the interlocutors using it understand eachother fully and boundlessly. Therefore, anyone who creates ellaborate music experiences no communication problem.

Berti Barbera
Translated by Drangoi Ioana – Alexandra, Anul I,
Facultatea de Limbi și Literaturi Străine Universitatea din București