formed his own group featuring Kenny Wheeler and Jon Christensen. Smith will serve as the music director for Scotland’s first permanent jazz school, the National Jazz Institute at Strathclyde University, which begins enrollment this fall. BBC-TYV taped the educational documentary Jazz Improvisation, which he produced, to coincide with the institute’s opening. Smith’s latest sextet album is Misty Morning and No Time. Magali Souriau *94 French pianist, composer, arranger, educator, and 1986 honor graduate (Diploma de Jazz) from the Conservatoire National de Marseilles, Magali Souriau took the Conservatoire’s Medaille d’or Jazz in 1988. Pianist Tommy Flanagan attended the competitions, and recommended Souriau, “without reservation,” to Berklee. She received a scholarship the following year, won the college’s 1990 Woody Herman Jazz Master Award and the 1993 International Association of Jazz Educators’ Gil Evans Fellowship in big band composition, and graduated in 1994. In 1991, she earned her Certificat d’Aptitude aux fonctions de Professeur de Jazz (college-level teaching certificate) from C.A. de Conservatoires National de Musique, Paris. Over the past several years, Souriau has composed, arranged, and conducted for the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Monday Night Orchestra—Live at the Village Vanguard, and The Big Van, directed by Guillermo Klein. She recently provided compo- sitions for the first CD to be released, on ENJA, by trumpeter Ingrid Jensen’s quintet. Sadao Watanabe 65 Bing Crosby in Birth of the Blues broug] jazz; Coca-Cola and Wrangler brought hi celebrity in his native Japan; Toshiko Akiy brought him to Berklee, where he studied Herb Pomeroy, having recommended hi soft samba with Gary McFarland’ i music of Brazil. The world i Brazilian music exposed for of encounters and events in Watanabe’s experience have resulted in an eclectic offering of over 50 albums. He has performed with Duke Ellington H’71, Chico Hamilton, Charles Mingus, Chick Corea, Cannonball Adderly, and John Faddis; and is the recipient of both the Tokyo Arts Festival’s Grand Prix Award and the Japanese Ministry of Education Award. Watanabe’s recordings as a leader include Goin’ Home, Iberian Waltz (with Charlie Mariano °51), Song Book, Round Trip, (with Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous "67, Jack DeJohnette H’90), Mbali Africa, How's Everything/Live at Budokan (with Dave Grusin H’88, Steve Gadd, and others), Parker’s Mood, Good Time for Love, Sadao Meets Brazilian Friends (1968/1986), Selected/Sadao Watanabe (greatest hits), Elis (with Cesar Camargo Mariano), and Front Seat (with Patti Austin, Robbie Buchanan, Abraham Laboriel, Sr. *72). His latest recording is In Tempo. Watanabe has also published two books of photographs taken during his Africa tours, the most recent packaged with a recording of traditional African music. Joe Zawinul 59 H91 Austrian-born keyboardist and composer Joe Zawinul began his musical life playing the accor- dion. He was introduced to jazz at the age of 13, by a classmate at a Czech conservatory where he studied piano, and 25 years later he helped turn the jazz world on its ear as a fusion pioneer with Wayne Shorter and their band Weather Report. In the interim years, Zawinul had traveled to the U.S. on a scholarship from Berklee won in a com- petition sponsored by Downbeat magazine; toured with Maynard Ferguson; and performed and recorded with Slide Hampton, Dinah Washington, and Joe Williams H’88. A nine-year turn with Cannonball Adderly and work with Miles Davis tablished Zawinul among the leading jazz com- sers and as a proponent of electronic jazz. He is onsible for the title track of Miles’ In a Silent d Adderly’s signature tune “No Mercy For cy, Mercy).” The multiple Grammy ning Zawinul was voted top synthesizer he Downbeat reader’s poll for 16 con- cutive years. His recordings include Weather eportj Sing the Body Electric, Black Market, nd Heavy Weather with Weather Report; West rican singer Salief Keita’s Amen, an arranging, roduction, and performance project that topped the world music charts; and the solo works Zawinul, Dialects, The Immigrants (the Zawinul Syndicate), Lost Tribe, and Black Water. He is currently recording a CD with the working title My People. In 1991, Zawinul received an honorary doctor of music degree from Berklee.