On the occasion of keyboardist Joe Zawinul's 70th birthday in 2002, the Leverkusener Jazztage paid tribute by the WDR Big Band and former members of Weather Report and The Zawinul Syndicate. He himself was probably too busy celebrating his birthday, because he only played on one song. From 2005 he made up for this by going on tour intensively with the big band and bassist Victor Bailey, percussionist
… Alex Acuna and drummer Nathaniel Townsley, all old-timers of his. He wrote the arrangements for the big band together with Vince Mendoza who also collaborated with the Dutch Metropole Orchestra. Brown Street was recorded in Zawinul's Birdland, his own jazz club, and shows that even his compositions from over thirty years ago still have a futuristic look to them.more
