Mysterious traveller
(Shorter)
In Glasser's book, In A Silent Way, Zawinul says,
"This was one of Wayne's tunes, which I arranged.
The end of it I more or less put together. We just
played the wonderful keyboard line with that rhythm
at the beginning, and Wayne is very particular about
his writing--everything is written out. We practiced
this tune very hard. I felt now when it's happening
there should be a little more, so we just carried on
and built it up a little bit."
Alphonso Johnson told Glasser, "There were two
distinct drummers [on this track], one of whom was
Skip Hadden, who played a kind of swing beat
against Ishmael Wilburn, who played a straight-
ahead rock/funk beat. It was the combination of the
two drums that came up with that pattern. It was too
complicated to explain to get one drummer to play
that way. I think they lucked out because they had
the drummers play separate, and when they brought
the tracks together it worked perfectly. It wasn't like
anybody had planned that pattern."
For "Mysterious Traveller," Zawinul took advantage
of Risner's modifications to the ARP 2600s so that
he could create a much fuller sound. "What I always
liked about them," Zawinul once recalled, "was the
way they were coupled together, so that I had six
oscillators instead of three. On 'Scarlet Woman,' the
melody chords would have been impossible to play
without coupling the 2600s and detuning the
oscillators."
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