A Look at the Life and Work of Joe Zawinul

NPR | By David Was

Published September 12, 2007 at 1:00 PM EDT

We look back at the work of keyboardist Joe Zawinul, one of the founders of the fusion jazz movement. Zawinul died Tuesday at age 75.

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