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Jazz this week: Dweezil Zappa, Lettuce, Marilyn Maye, Project/Object, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes one grande dame of cabaret; a couple of danceable funk/jazz acts; two pianists sharing one stage at the city's most prestigious jazz club; and not one, but two tributes to the music of the eclectic guitarist and composer Frank Zappa, plus more. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, October 12 Promoting their latest recording, Within You, The People's Key begin a two-night stand that marks their debut at ...
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Project/Object On Tour, USA And Europe With Historic Lineup: Zappa/Mothers Alums Ike Willis, Ray White, Tom Fowler, Ed Mann & Denny Walley
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Keith James
Asheville, NC - Frank Zappa, one of the twentieth century’s most important composers, continues to have an effect on modern music. His list of ex-band members is a who’s who of incredible musicians. For twenty years Project/Object has been on a mission to bring Zappa’s multi-dimensional music and onstage madness to the masses, by faithfully recreating the live Zappa experience with his alumni. Over the years Project/Object has performed with over a dozen of Zappa's most popular band members. Touring ...
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Project/Object Keeps The Humor In Music On Fall Northeast Tour: Zappa Alumni Ike Willis & Ray White Back On Tour
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
New York, NY: The longest running Zappa repertoire group, Project/Object, returns to the road for a quick tour of the Northeast. The band will be joined by Zappa ‘s most beloved vocalists: Ike Willis and Ray White, who together and separately toured and recorded with Zappa from 1976-1988. Project/Object’s long years of collaboration with Willis and White is testament to their desire to bring Zappa fans’ favorite sidemen to the stage as often as possible. Project/Object is unique amongst Zappa ...
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Jazz This Week: Jeff Lorber, Project/Object, Lowdown Brass Band, TKT Scholarship Benefit, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Beyond the usual challenges of performing, the jazz and creative musicians playing in St. Louis over the next week have a tough task: drawing a crowd of attentive listeners while the Cardinals are competing in the World Series. But while this admittedly is a baseball-crazy town, one would hope it's also big enough and diverse enough to provide for adequate turnouts at a number of noteworthy musical performances, too. For example, tonight keyboardist Jeff Lorber begins a four-night engagement at ...
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Project/Object with Ike Willis to Play Wednesday, October 19 at Old Rock House
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Attention, St. Louis area Zappaphiles: If the appearance by Zappa Plays Zappa this Thursday opening for Return to Forever at the Fox Theatre isn't enough to sate your appetite for Frank Zappa's music, there's more on the way in a couple of months, as the Old Rock House today announced that the Zappa tribute band Project/Object will perform there at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 19. Formed in the early 1990s and based in New York, Project/Object is one of ...
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Project/Object Returns to the South with Legendary Zappa Band Members
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
New York, NY—Project/Object continues their mission of performing Frank Zappa's music with a rotating lineup of Zappa's most beloved band members. On this tour the band will be joined by alumni Ike Willis and Ray White, and at selected gigs, Denny Walley, Don Preston and Bunk Gardner. Project/Object's collaboration with these legends is a testament to the bands desire to present Zappa's music as it was recorded and performed live, while also developing creativity in live performance. Ike Willis is ...
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Project/Object with Napoleon Murphy Brock Performing the Music of Frank Zappa Announces Fall Tour 2007
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Hot Off 2006 ZPZ Tour Legendary Zappa Frontman Napoleon Murphy Brock Prepares to Amaze Audiences Once Again New York, NY -- Project/Object, the acclaimed and internationally known Frank Zappa repertoire band, is back with its “Fall Surge for Zappa Music" tour, October 10 thru 24, 2007. With former Zappa vocalist/saxophonist Napoleon Murphy Brock as the focal point of this particular installment of Project/Object, longtime fans can expect a unique and fresh lineup from the seasoned touring band - highlighting not ...
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Project/Object (feat. ex-Zappa bandmembers Ike Willis & Napoleon Murphy Brock) now on tour!
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All About Jazz
Greetings! the following is a press release for this fine ensemble's Seattle show, but note that it contains all of their current tour info! Enjoy, JLK, WA, USA
*** PROJECT/OBJECT *** feat. Ike Willis & Napoleon Murphy Brock
CELEBRATING THE TIMELESS MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA - AND STARRING 2 OF FRANK'S LONGTIME BANDMEMBERS: IKE WILLIS & NAPOLEON MURPHY BROCK!
will play live all evening ...
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