Jazz Articles about Terry Bozzio

Frank Zappa: Zappa '75 Zagreb / Ljubljana

by Mario Calvitti
October 31, 2022

La recente acquisizione dell'intero catalogo di Frank Zappa da parte della Universal non sembra aver modificato la politica di pubblicazione di registrazioni inedite tratte dall'imponente archivio di nastri, apparentemente inesauribile, sempre curato dal Vaultmeister Joe Travers. Nel corso del 2022 sono già stati pubblicati due cofanetti dedicati rispettivamente ai Mothers del 1971 e ai tre concerti tenuti nella zona di Erie, e in attesa del già annunciato box dedicato al 1972 di Waka/Jawaka e Grand Wazoo in uscita ...

Frank Zappa: Zappa/Erie

by Mario Calvitti
September 5, 2022

La pubblicazione di inediti dall'apparentemente inesauribile archivio zappiano prosegue a un ritmo tale da mettere a dura prova anche i fans più incalliti, soprattutto considerando che quasi tutte le ultime uscite sono cofanetti con più dischi. Anche questo nuovissimo Zappa/Erie consiste di 6 CD alloggiati in una elegante confezione a libro formato LP, con 24 pagine di note e foto (una versione speciale deluxe limitata contiene anche un poster). Questa volta non si tratta di celebrare un ...

Ultimate Collectors' Edition

by John Kelman
September 25, 2016

Well, there's certainly been a wait for this one, but for fans of what may be the last high profile progressive rock group to emerge in the 1970s, U.K.'s Ultimate Collectors' Edition proves well worth it. What began as an already sizeable 16-disc box for a group that, during its relatively brief tenure, released just two studio albums and one live recording, has become an 18-disc set with the addition of a recording of the group's final show in Nijmegen, ...

The Complete Arista Albums Collection

by John Kelman
December 14, 2012

When fusion first emerged in the late 1960s/early '70s with artists like trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Chick Corea and guitarist John McLaughlin, the emphasis was on guitar and keyboard heavy lineups like Return to Forever and Mahavishnu Orchestra, with an equally strong predilection for the intensity and volume of rock and a kind of thundering funk that was different than the kind of music coming from R&B and soul artists like Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire. Parallel to ...

Bozzio, Holdsworth, Levin, Mastelotto: Amped In Amsterdam

by Phillip Woolever
April 27, 2010

Terry Bozzio, Allan Holdsworth, Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto Paradiso Amsterdam, The Netherlands April 8, 2010

Instrumental mastery was the only rhythmic constant for an experimental exercise that paid off in uncharted realms.

Drummers Terry Bozzio and Pat Mastelotto, along with guitarist Allan Holdsworth and bassist Tony Levin, looked pretty much like any talented jazz quartet despite having drawn some heat during their formative appearances.

Regardless of structure or the purposeful lack ...

Terry Bozzio + Metropole Orkest: Chamber Works

by John Kelman
September 16, 2005

Terry Bozzio is perhaps best known as a chops-laden drummer who's more at home in the pop/rock and fusion worlds. Chamber Works, which teams him with Netherlands' Metropole Orkest--like guitarist Mike Keneally's similar collaboration on last year's The Universe Will Provide--demonstrates that Bozzio is about much, much more. A member of the late Frank Zappa's band from 1976 onwards, Bozzio was required to deal with complex compositions that were at times almost classical in their orchestral complexity: no surprise, given ...

Jeff Beck: Live At BB King Blues Club

by Doug Collette
March 5, 2004

Leave it to Jeff Beck to make a brand new recording available only online within six months of his last studio release. Live is an erratic but nevertheless brilliant piece of work by an erratic and brilliant artist.Recorded last September at BB King's House of Blues in New York, this CD constitutes a reunion of Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop trio. Playing with keyboardist Tony Hymas and drumming monster Terry Bozzio, the iconoclastic British guitar icon revisits, albeit somewhat ...