The Honourable Bob Baldwin MP
Bob Baldwin
Member of the Australian Parliament for Paterson
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 November 2001
Preceded by	Bob Horne
Majority	5.33% (2010)
In office 2 March 1996 – 3 October 1998
Preceded by	Bob Horne
Succeeded by	Bob Horne
Personal details
Born	(1955-03-09) 9 March 1955 (age 57) Gloucester, United Kingdom
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Liberal Party of Australia
Spouse(s)	Cynthia Jenkins
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Company director
Website	www.bobbaldwin.com.au
Australian Parliament Members Biography Page

Robert Charles "Bob" Baldwin (born 9 March 1955), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 to October 1998 and again since November 2001, representing the Division of Paterson in New South Wales. He was born in Gloucester, United Kingdom, and was a company director before entering politics.

He held the position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry, Tourism & Resources from January 2006 until December 2007 when the Australian Labor Party was elected to govern Australia. After the election, on 6 December 2007 Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson announced that Baldwin would be the new Shadow Minister for Defence Science, Personnel and Assisting Shadow Minister for Defence.^[1]

After Malcolm Turnbull became leader, he remained in his job. When the Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, 2009 was held and Tony Abbott replaced Turnbull he kept his roles.

On 14 September 2010 after the Australian federal election, 2010 he was promoted to Shadow Minister for Regional Development and Shadow Minister for Tourism.

On 16 April 2008 he represented the Federal Opposition leader, Brendan Nelson at the commemoration service for HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran personnel who lost their lives on 19 November 1941.

Parliamentary Positions[link]

Ministerial Appointments[link]

• 27 January 2006 - 3 December 2007 - Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources

Parliamentary Positions[link]

• 16 November 2004 - 7 February 2006 - Member, Speakers Panel

Committee Service[link]

House of Representatives Standing:

• 29 May 1996 - 9 October 2006 - Communications, Transport and Microeconomic Reform
• 29 May 1996 - 24 September 1997 - Industry, Science and Technology
• 29 May 1996 - 29 September 1997 - Primary Industries, Resources and Rural and Regional Affairs
• 20 March 2002 - 31 August 2004 - Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (Chair from 9 October 2003)
• 1 December 2004 - 27 January 2006 - Members' Interests
• 1 December 2004 - 27 January 2006 - House

Joint Standing:

• 18 June 1996 - 31 August 1998 - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
• 20 March 2002 - 31 August 2004 - Treaties
• 20 March 2002 - 27 January 2006 - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
• 1 December 2004 - 27 January 2006 - Public Accounts and Audit (Chair from 6 December 2004)
• from 7 March 2008 - Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
• from 7 March 2008 - Public Accounts and Audit

Joint Statutory:

• 1 December 2004 - 15 October 2007 - Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings
• from 11 March 2008 - Public Accounts and Audit

Parliamentary Party positions[link]

• from 6 December 2007 - Shadow Minister for Defence Science, Personnel
• from 6 December 2007 - Assisting Shadow Minister for Defence
• from 14 September 2010 - Shadow Minister for Tourism, Shadow Minister for Regional Development

References[link]

• "Parliament of Australia: House of Representatives - Members: The Hon Bob Baldwin MP, Member for Paterson (NSW)". Parliament of Australia. http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=LL6. Retrieved 2008-07-22. 

External links[link]

• Search or browse Hansard for Bob Baldwin at OpenAustralia.org

Joe Zawinul
Joe Zawinul live with "The Zawinul Syndicate" (Freiburg/Germany, 2007)
Background information
Birth name	Josef Erich Zawinul
Born	(1932-07-07)July 7, 1932 Vienna, Austria
Died	September 11, 2007(2007-09-11) (aged 75) Vienna, Austria
Genres	Jazz, jazz fusion, romantic music, art music, world music
Occupations	Keyboardist, composer
Instruments	Keyboards: synthesizer, piano, accordion, EWI
Years active	1949–2007
Associated acts	Zawinul Syndicate Weather Report Miles Davis Cannonball Adderley
Website	www.zawinulmusic.com

Josef Erich Zawinul (July 7, 1932 – September 11, 2007)^[1] was an Austrian-American jazz keyboardist and composer.

First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with elements of rock and world music. Later, Zawinul co-founded the groups Weather Report and the world fusion music-oriented Zawinul Syndicate. Additionally, he made pioneering use of electric piano and synthesizers. Zawinul was named "Best Electric Keyboardist" 28 times by the readers of Down Beat magazine.^[2]

Several artists have honored Zawinul with songs, notably Brian Eno's instrumental "Zawinul/Lava", John McLaughlin's instrumental "Jozy", Warren Cuccurullo's "Hey Zawinul", Bob Baldwin's "Joe Zawinul", Chucho Valdés's "Zawinul's Mambo", Biréli Lagrène's instrumental "Josef" and Toninho Horta's instrumental "Balada para Zawinul". Zawinul's playing style is often dominated by quirky melodic improvisations — traversing bebop, ethnic and pop styles — combined with sparse but rhythmic playing of big-band sounding chords or bass lines. In Weather Report, he often employed a vocoder as well as pre-recorded sounds played (i.e. filtered and transposed) through a synthesizer, creating a very distinctive synthesis of jazz harmonics and "noise" ("using all the sounds the world generates").

Biography[link]

Early life and career[link]

Zawinul was born and grew up in Landstraße, as a son of the worker Josef Zawinul, in Vienna, Austria, where he went to school with the late former Austrian Federal President Thomas Klestil. His grandmother was a Hungarian Sinti ("Gypsy"), and his grandfather was from southern Moravia.

Classically trained at the Konservatorium Wien, Zawinul played in various broadcasting and studio bands before emigrating to the U.S. in 1959 on a music scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

He went on to play with trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, where he first met Wayne Shorter after having had an influence in hiring him. Shorter left soon thereafter to play in Art Blakey's group and Josef was apparently dismissed from the Ferguson band for wanting to have too much control over personnel decisions. Zawinul then toured and recorded with singer Dinah Washington for two years.

With Cannonball Adderley[link]

In 1961, Zawinul joined the Quintet led by saxophonist Cannonball Adderley.^[1] During his nine-year stint with Adderley, he wrote the hit song "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy." He also composed "Walk Tall" and "Country Preacher", the latter a tribute to U.S. Civil Rights Movement leader Jesse Jackson, from the 1969 album of the same name.

With Miles Davis[link]

In the late 1960s, Zawinul recorded with Miles Davis's studio band and helped create the sound of jazz fusion. He played on the album In a Silent Way, the title track of which he composed, and the landmark album Bitches Brew, for which he contributed the twenty-minute track, "Pharaoh's Dance", which occupied the whole of side one.^[1]

Zawinul is known to have played live with Davis only once, on July 10, 1991, in Paris, along with Wayne Shorter, shortly before Davis' death.^[1]

Zawinul, along with other Davis sidemen Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock, was one of the first to use electric pianos and early synthesizers like the ARP 2600 in 1973's Sweetnighter. He was among the first to use an electric piano, the Wurlitzer. He used the Fender-Rhodes thereafter, adding a wah-wah pedal and later the Mutron effect unit for a complex phased timbre. His creativity and attention to detail resulted in a very contemporary and modern sound. He also played the kalimba on Weather Report's albums Mysterious Traveller and Mr. Gone.

With Weather Report[link]

In 1970, Zawinul co-founded Weather Report with saxophonist and Davis alumnus Wayne Shorter. Their first two years emphasized a relatively open, group improvisation format not dissimilar to what Miles Davis was doing in a more rock oriented format. However, Josef started making changes with their third album, Sweetnighter, citing he was "tired of waiting for something to happen". Funk elements such as electric bass, wah-wah pedal, etc. started to be introduced in the band's sound. Music critics generally agree that their 4th album, Mysterious Traveller, was their true breakthrough album, capturing the classic Weather Report "sound" for the first time. The musical forms were now through-composed similar to classical music, and the combination of jazz harmonies with 70's groove elements launched the band into its most successful period.

Zawinul with Weather Report in Toronto, 1977 Photo: Jean-Luc Ourlin

Their biggest commercial success came from his composition "Birdland", a 6-minute opus featured on Weather Report's 1977 album Heavy Weather, which peaked at number 30 on the Billboard pop albums chart. "Birdland" is one of the most recognizable jazz pieces of the 1970s, covered by many prominent artists from The Manhattan Transfer and Quincy Jones to Maynard Ferguson, the Buddy Rich Big Band, and Jefferson Starship. Even Weather Report's version received significant mainstream radio airplay — unusual for them — and served to convert many new fans to music which they may never have heard otherwise. The song won him three Grammys.

Weather Report was active until the mid 80s, with Zawinul and Shorter remaining the sole constant members through multiple personnel shifts. The group was notable for bringing to prominence pioneering fretless bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius, but also other musicians, such as Alphonso Johnson and Peter Erskine. Shorter and Zawinul had already gone separate ways, after the recording of their "final" Sportin' Life, when it was discovered that they had to do one more album in order to fulfill the CBS contract. This Is This! therefore became their final album. Shorter participated despite being busy leading his own group, and Peter Erskine was also brought in again for this record, ending up playing on most compositions.

Later career[link]

Zawinul also wrote a symphony, called Stories of the Danube, which was commissioned by the Brucknerhaus, Linz. It was first performed as part of the Linzer Klangwolke (a large-scale open-air broadcast event), for the opening of the 1993 Bruckner Festival in Linz. In its seven movements, the symphony traces the course of the Danube from Donaueschingen through various countries ending at the Black Sea. It was recorded in 1995 by the Czech State Philharmonic Orchestra, Brno, conducted by Caspar Richter.

Death[link]

Zawinul was hospitalized in his native Vienna on August 7, 2007,^[3] after concluding a five-week European tour. He died from a rare form of skin cancer (Merkel cell carcinoma) on September 11, 2007.^[4][5] He is buried in the Zentralfriedhof Cemetery in Vienna.

Discography[link]

The Zawinul Syndicate, live in Freiburg, 2007

As leader[link]

• To You with Love (Strand, 1959)
• Money in the Pocket (Atlantic, 1966)
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream (Vortex, 1968)
• Zawinul (Atlantic, 1971)
• Di•a•lects (Columbia, 1986)
• The Immigrants (Columbia, 1988)
• Black Water (Columbia, 1989)
• Lost Tribes (Columbia, 1992)
• My People (ESC-Records, 1996)
• Stories of the Danube (Polygram, 1996)
• World Tour (ESC, 1997)
• Mauthausen - Vom großen Sterben hören (ESC-Records, 2000) [3]
• Faces & Places (ESC-Records, 2002)
• Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate – Vienna Nights – Live at Joe Zawinul's Birdland (BirdJAM, 2005)
• Brown Street (2006)
• 75 (BirdJAM, 2008)

With[link]

Ben Webster

• Soulmates (Riverside, 1963)

Friedrich Gulda

• Music for Two Pianos (Capriccio, 2006) with the WDR Big Band

As sideman[link]

With Dinah Washington

• What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! (Mercury, 1960)
• Dinah Washington & Brook Benton – Two of Us (Mercury, 1960)

With Cannonball Adderley

• Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (Capitol, 1961)
• The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (Riverside, 1962)
• Cannonball in Europe! (Riverside, 1962)
• Jazz Workshop Revisited (Riverside, 1963)
• Autumn Leaves (Riverside [Japan], 1963)
• Nippon Soul (Riverside, 1963)
• Cannonball Adderley Live! (Capitol, 1964)
• Live Session! (Capitol, 1964)
• Cannonball Adderley's Fiddler on the Roof (Capitol, 1964)
• Domination (Capitol, 1965)
• Money in the Pocket (Capitol, 1966)
• Great Love Themes (Capitol, 1966)
• Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club' (Capitol, 1966)
• Cannonball in Japan (Capitol, 1966)
• Radio Nights (Night, 1967-8)
• 74 Miles Away (Capitol, 1967)
• Why Am I Treated So Bad! (Capitol, 1967)
• Accent on Africa (Capitol, 1968)
• Country Preacher (Capitol, 1969)
• In Person (Capitol, 1970)
• The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra (Capitol, 1970)
• The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (Capitol, 1970)

With Nat Adderley

• Naturally! (Jazzland, 1961)
• Autobiography (Atlantic, 1964)
• Live at Memory Lane (Atlantic, 1966)
• The Scavenger (Milestone, 1968)
• You, Baby (CTI, 1968)
• Calling Out Loud (CTI, 1968)

With Miles Davis

• In a Silent Way (Columbia, 1969)
• Big Fun (Columbia, 1969)
• Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970)
• Live-Evil (Columbia, 1971)
• Circle in the Round (Columbia, 1979)

With Eddie Harris

• Silver Cycles (Atlantic, 1968)

With Weather Report

• Weather Report (Columbia, 1971)
• I Sing the Body Electric (Columbia, 1972)
• Live in Tokyo (Columbia, 1972)
• Sweetnighter (Columbia, 1973)
• Mysterious Traveller (1974)
• Tale Spinnin' (1975)
• Black Market (1976)
• Heavy Weather (1977)
• Mr. Gone (1978)
• 8:30 (1979)
• Night Passage (1980)
• Weather Report (1982)
• Procession (1983)
• Domino Theory (1984)
• Sportin' Life (1985)
• This Is This! (1986)
• Live and Unreleased (2002)
• Forecast: Tomorrow (2006)

As contributor

• Amen by Salif Keita (Mango, 1991)
• Crazy Saints by Trilok Gurtu (1993)

References[link]

Biographies[link]

External links[link]

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Glenn Jones, (born 1962, Jacksonville, Florida), is an American R&B/soul singer.^[1]

Career[link]

He started his career as a gospel singer and has since, managed a successful move into the R&B field. He got his start in R&B in 1980 when Norman Connors featured Jones on a track on his album, Take It To The Limit. The song was "Melancholy Fire".

Jones toured with Connors and in 1983, signed a deal with RCA. In the same year, he issued a five track mini-album Everybody Loves A Winner that had the top 30 R&B single, "I Am Somebody." His first full-length album, Finesse, was released in 1984 and established Jones as a force in the industry. The single "Show Me," reached #3 on the R&B charts. The second single, "Bring Back Your Love" reached #18 on the R&B charts.

His last album for RCA was Take It From Me which came out in 1986. The title track for the album was featured in the movie, Youngblood.

Moving to Jive in 1987, Jones scored a big hit with "We've Only Just Begun" which reached #2 on the Billboard R&B chart. The track was the lead single off his album, Glenn Jones, released in 1987.

In 1992, Jones moved to Atlantic Records. During the same year, Jones released the album, Here I Go Again. It "Here I Go Again", which was his only single to reach #1 on the R&B charts. His album Here I Am was released in 1994 and had a minor hit with "Round and Round" which reached #24 on the R&B charts.

Since then, Jones released the album It's Time in 1998 and Feels Good (Peak Records) in 2002, neither of which were very successful on the charts. A radio friendly track from the latter "Feels Good", the romantic wedding song "From Now On", with jazz/soul song stylist Ms.Regina Belle, got some radio airplay.

In 2006, Jones released Forever: Timeless R&B Classics.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

As part of the Modulations:

• 1978: With a Made up Mind (Savoy)

As Glenn Jones and the Modulations:

• 1980: Feel the Fire (Savoy)

As Glenn Jones:

• 1983: Everybody Loves a Winner (EP) (RCA)
• 1984: Finesse (RCA) - US R&B #18
• 1986: Take It from Me (RCA) - US R&B #45
• 1987: Glenn Jones (Jive) - US #94, US R&B #16, UK #62
• 1990: All For You (Jive) - US R&B #27
• 1992: Here I Go Again (Atlantic) - US R&B #22
• 1992: The Best of Glenn Jones (Jive)
• 1994: Here I Am (Atlantic) - US R&B #39
• 1998: Greatest Hits: Giving Myself to You (Razor & Tie)
• 1998: It's Time (SAR) - US R&B #51
• 2002: Feels Good (Peak) - US R&B #88
• 2006: Forever: Timeless R&B Classics (Shanachie) - US R&B #49

Singles[link]

• 1983: "I Am Somebody" - US R&B #30
• 1983: "Keep on Doin'" - US R&B #51
• 1984: "Show Me" - US R&B #3
• 1985: "Bring Back Your Love" - US R&B #18
• 1985: "Everlasting Love" - US R&B #85
• 1986: "Giving Myself to You" - US R&B #19
• 1986: "Stay" (from the Take It from Me album) - US R&B #69
• 1987: "We've Only Just Begun (The Romance Is Not Over)" - US #66, US R&B #2, UK #85
• 1987: "Oh Girl" - US R&B #38
• 1988: "Living in the Limelight" - US R&B #34
• 1990: "Stay" (from the All for You album) - US R&B #6
• 1990: "Can We Try Again" - US R&B #47
• 1992: "Here I Go Again" - US R&B #1
• 1992: "I've Been Searchin' (Nobody Like You)" - US R&B #8
• 1992: "Good Thang" - US R&B #60
• 1994: "Round and Round" - US R&B #24
• 1994: "Here I Am" - US R&B #68
• 1998: "Let It Rain" - US R&B #65
• 1999: "Baby Come Home" - US R&B #80

References[link]

External links[link]

• Glenn Jones Myspace Page
• Soul Tracks profile of Glenn Jones
• Billboard profile of Glenn Jones
• AMG profile of Glenn Jones
• Glenn Jones 2012 Audio Interview at Soulinterviews.com