Results for "Fast 'n' Bulbous"

Fast 'n' Bulbous

Phillip Johnston Returns with Diggin' Bones and The Adventures of Prince Achmed

by John Kelman
January 13, 2019

The consequences of change in the music industry have been predicted for some time now but, with far too many blinkered deniers, it's had to begin approaching critical mass before being recognized for what it is: the commoditization and devaluation of music that has led to increasing challenges for musicians looking to maintain any kind of ...

Nona Hendryx and Gary Lucas: The World Of Captain Beefheart

by Jerome Wilson
February 11, 2018

Gary Lucas has been a long time fan of the one-of-a-kind mutant rock-jazz-blues of Captain Beefheart. This led to his being part of Beefheart's Magic Band in the '80s and to his revisiting the music after Beefheart's 1985 retirement in various formats including a raucous jazz tribute band, Fast 'n' Bulbous. This time he goes back ...

Waxed Oop

By Fast 'n' Bulbous

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Sure 'Nuff 'n' Yes I do; Trust Us; Smithsonian Institute Blues; Dropout Boogie; You Know You're a Man; Well; Ice Rose; Click Clack/Ice Cream For Crow; Woe-is-uh-Me-Bop; The Blimp; The Past Sure is Tense; Blabber 'n' Smoke; China Pig.

Waxed Oop (An Impetuous Stream Bubbled Up)

By Fast 'n' Bulbous

Label: Fine Line Records
Released: 2009

Fast 'n' Bulbous: Waxed Oop

By Fast 'n' Bulbous

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Sure 'Nuff'n'Yes I Do; Trust Us; Smithsonian Institute Blues; Dropout Boogie; You Know You're A Man; Well; Ice Rose; Click Clack/Ice Cream For Crow; Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop; The Blimp; The Past Sure Is Tense; Blabber'n'Smoke; China Pig.

Fast 'n' Bulbous: Waxed Oop

by Nic Jones
June 13, 2009

The idea of the music of Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) without his idiosyncratic bark of a voice might be difficult for devotees to take, much as his music will perhaps always be for other people. The sharp division of opinion this might imply is however rendered irrelevant by the strength of this program, the purpose ...

Fast 'N' Bulbous: Waxed Oop

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 18, 2009

Il repertorio di Captain Beefheart continua a fornire suggestioni e sollecitazioni al settetto guidato da Phillip Johnston e Gary Lucas. Si passa dal blues più intenso e tradizionale del brano iniziale alla follia iconoclasta di “The Blimp" e di buona parte degli altri brani selezionati accuratamente dai due leader e arrangiati con grande cura dei dettagli ...

Phillip Johnston: Page Of Madness

by Mark Corroto
May 10, 2009

Saxophonist and composer Phillip Johnston has always been a step (or two) out of synch with trends in modern music. And that is a good thing. His eclectic '80s band Microscopic Septet was never given its due. Now, twenty years later, with the reissue of its Seven Men in Neckties: History of the Micros, Vol. 1 ...

Fast 'n' Bulbous: Waxed Oop

by Martin Longley
April 19, 2009

Fast 'n' Bulbous Waxed Oop Cuneiform 2009 Many people would agree with alto saxophonist Phillip Johnston's assertion that Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart) was one of the twentieth century's very greatest composers. He was also one of its key innovators, conceptualists, singers and poets. When an artist ...