A Zawinul Online visitor tipped me off to the events listing for Jazz à la Villette 2007, the jazz festival held each September at Cite de la Musique at Parc La Villette in Paris, France. Lo and behold, on September 6 the Zawinul Syndicate is scheduled to perform with a special guest: none other than Wayne Shorter.

Wayne is one of the festival’s featured musicians this year, and the Syndicate concert is the last of four performances over five nights at La Villette by Shorter. On September 2 he will play with the Gretchen Parlato Quintet. On the fourth he will perform with his own quartet and the National Orchestra of France, and the next evening Wayne’s quartet will be paired with the Imani Winds.

Although Joe and Wayne have appeared on the same bill at various jazz festivals over the years, to my knowledge they have not performed together since the 1991 Miles Davis tribute concert, also at La Villette. So this would seem to be a pretty special event, indeed.