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Captain Beefheart

Born: January 15, 1941

Avant-garde rock legend and visual artist Don Van Vliet, who performed under the name Captain Beefheart, began experimenting with eccentric rock’n'roll sounds in the mid-1960s. His first two releases with the Magic Band drew positive notice from some connoisseurs but failed to connect with the wider public.

Van Vliet next forged a close creative partnership with Frank Zappa, a former high school classmate, who signed Beefheart to his Straight Records and produced 1969′s Trout Mask Replica. While the bizarre double album was not a major commercial success, it quickly became a cultural landmark.

Bongo Fury 50th Anniversary Edition

By Frank Zappa

Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: CD 1: Debra Kadabra; Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy; Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top; Poofter’s Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead; 200 Years Old; Cucamonga; Advance Romance; Man With The Woman Head; Muffin Man; Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy (Long Version); Man With The Woman Head (Isolated Vocal); Muffin Man / A Little Green Rosetta (Alternate Take); 200 Years Old (Long Version); Born To Suck (Vocal Session Snoop); Born To Suck CD 2: 5-20-75 Show Start; “Put A Shirt On Man”; Apostrophe’; Stink-Foot; I’m Not Satisfied; Debra Kadabra; Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy; The Velvet Sunrise; Pound For A Brown – Part I; Pound For A Brown – Part II; Sleeping In A Jar CD 3: “Enjoy The Steambath”; The Torture Never Stops (Original Version); Camarillo Brillo; Muffin Man; Advance Romance; Montana; Duke’s Things; Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top; Poofter’s Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead; Echidna’s Arf (Of You) / Terry’s Solo; The Ampeg Mini-Moog Controller Guitar Experiment; Willie The Pimp CD 4: “Good Evening, Ladies And Gentlemen”; Apostrophe’; Stink-Foot; I’m Not Satisfied; Debra Kadabra; Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy; The Velvet Sunrise; Pound For A Brown – Part I; “We’ve Had A Bomb Threat”; Pound For A Brown – Part II CD 5: Advance Romance; Florentine Pogen; Montana; Camarillo Brillo; Muffin Man; Willie The Pimp; Claremont Rehearsal; Poofter’s Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead; Portuguese Lunar Landing

Frank Zappa: Bongo Fury 50th Anniversary Edition

by Mario Calvitti
September 28, 2026

Le edizioni del cinquantesimo anniversario della discografia di Frank Zappa proseguono secondo l'ordine cronologico con il disco successivo ampiamente anticipato. Si tratta di Bongo Fury, ultima collaborazione tra il chitarrista e il suo amico dai tempi del liceo (anche se il rapporto non è sempre stato idilliaco) Don Van Vliet, meglio conosciuto come Captain Beefheart.

Frank Zappa: One Size Fits All 50th Anniversary Edition

by Mario Calvitti
June 1, 2026

Non si arresta il flusso di pubblicazioni che periodicamente arricchiscono la già strabordante discografia di Frank Zappa. A oltre 30 anni dalla sua prematura scomparsa continuano a emergere dagli apparentemente inesauribili archivi amorevolmente curati dal Vaultmeister Joe Travers materiali inediti di studio e live, a un ritmo di almeno tre-quattro uscite annue. Dopo l'interamente ...

Record Store Day 2026 Additional Releases

by Kyle Simpler
April 3, 2026

While jazz releases are always a highlight of Record Store Day, the event's massive lists inevitably spill far beyond any single genre. With hundreds of titles announced each year, it quickly becomes clear that no guide can cover everything. The following selections step slightly outside the jazz category, but they still feel at home in a ...

One Size Fits All 50th Anniversary Edition

By Frank Zappa

Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2025
Track listing:
CD 1:

Inca Roads; Can't Afford No Shoes; Sofa No. 1; Po-Jama People; Florentine Pogen; Evelyn, A Modified Dog; San Ber'dino; Andy; Sofa No. 2; Inca Roads – Rough Mix; Ralph Stuffs His Shoes – “Token” Outtake; Ralph Stuffs His Shoes – Basic Tracks, Take 5; Ralph Stuffs His Shoes – Instrumental Mix, Master Take; Can’t Afford No Shoes – Rough Mix; Sofa No. 1 – Basic Tracks, Take 6; Sofa No. 1 – Master Take, Early Mix.

CD 2:

Po-Jama People – Old Mix; Florentine Pogen – Rough Mix; Florentine Pogen – Alternate Solo; Evelyn, A Modified Dog – Session Outtakes; Bitch, Bitch, Bitch – In Rehearsal; Bitch, Bitch, Bitch – Basic Tracks, Take 1; San Ber’dino – Rough Mix I; San Ber’dino – Rough Mix II; San Ber’dino – Rough Mix III; Something/Anything – Rough Mix; Andy – Rough Mix; Sofa No. 2 – Rough Mix.

CD 3:

Live In Rotterdam, 28/9/1974: Tush Tush Tush (A Token Of My Extreme); Stink-Foot; Inca Roads; Approximate; Cosmik Debris; Florentine Pogen; Montana; RDNZL.

CD 4:

Live In Rotterdam, 28/9/1974 + bonus live tracks: Dupree’s Paradise Intro; Blind Mice Blues; Dupree’s Paradise – Part 1; Dupree’s Paradise – Part 2; Pygmy Twylyte; Room Service; Tush Tush Tush (End Vamp); Ralph Stuffs His Shoes – Live in Gothenburg, Sweden, 25/9/1974; Po-Jama People – Live in Gothenburg, Sweden, 25/9/1974.

Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention: Whisky A Go Go 1968

by Mario Calvitti
July 22, 2024

Lo sfruttamento dell'immenso, e apparentemente inesauribile, archivio zappiano procede al ritmo di 3-4 pubblicazioni all'anno, alternando riedizioni di album storici (le “50th anniversary edition" arricchite di nuovi contenuti) e dischi contenenti materiale inedito dal vivo o in studio, recuperato tra gli innumerevoli nastri accumulati da Frank Zappa durante gli anni di attività. Questa ...

Guitar Forms 2024

by Jerome Wilson
May 23, 2024

These are a few recent releases where guitars have a featured role. Jeanfrancois Prins Blue Note Mode GAM Records 2024 Guitarist Jeanfrancois Prins is from Belgium but his music comes straight out of the American jazz tradition. He recorded this album at the legendary Rudy Van Gelder studio ...

Funky Nothingness

by Mario Calvitti
September 11, 2023

A quasi trent'anni dalla scomparsa e dopo il passaggio dell'intero catalogo alla Universal, prosegue al ritmo di quattro titoli all'anno la pubblicazione di album inediti di Frank Zappa. Dopo l'uscita di Mudd Club/Munich 1980, album francamente non imprescindibile a meno di essere appassionati del periodo centrato sull'album Sheik Yerbouti, ma comunque gratificato da numerosi eccellenti assoli ...

Sun Ra: Lanquidity (2 x CD Edition)

by Chris May
February 2, 2022

When it comes to Sun Ra, the elephant in the room--or perhaps the intergalactic space frigate orbiting your sound system--is how many musicians in the band were bombed out on acid during a typical recording session? By all accounts, Ra ran a tight spaceship and drugs, mind expanding or numbing, were strictly off limits. Then again, ...