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.