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Don Preston

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Donald Ward Preston also known as Dom DeWilde or Biff Debrie born September 21, 1932 in Flint, Michigan. Preston is an American rock and roll musician. Preston was born into a family of musicians and began studying music at an early age. His father was the composer-in-residence for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. At 12 years old he was thrown out of school for hypnotizing several students and a nun. The nuns used to beat his hands with a big ruler when he made mistakes playing the piano. Because of this weird treatment he began to like strange and dissonant music. Preston later did a stint in the army, serving in Trieste, Italy

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

A Belated Tribute to Carla Bley

Read "A Belated Tribute to Carla Bley" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Better late than never, this show is in tribute to composer Carla Bley who passed away in October 2023. It features Bley's work with her various small and large groups as well as with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. It also had her compositions performed by collaborators and admirers such as Billy Drummond, Nels Cline, Gary ...

Article: Album Review

Frank Zappa: Waka/Wazoo

Read "Waka/Wazoo" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Il programma dela pubblicazione di inediti zappiani in occasione del loro cinquantesimo anniversario, iniziato con il box set The Hot Rats Session e proseguito con i cofanetti dedicati alle Mothers del 1970 e 1971 e alla colonna sonora del film 200 Motels, prosegue ora con quello che probabilmente è il titolo più atteso, da tempo annunciato ...

Album

Waka/Wazoo

Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2022
Track listing:
CD 1

Your Mouth (Take 1); Big Swifty (Alternate Take); Minimal Art (Eat That Question—Version 1, Take 2); Blessed Relief (Outtake Version); Think It Over (The Grand Wazoo) (Outtake Version); For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers) (Outtake Version); Waka/Jawaka (Outtake Version)

CD 2

Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus (Alternate Take); Eat That Question (Version 2, Alternate Take); Big Swifty (Alternate Mix); For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers) (Alternate Mix); It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal (Alternate Mix); Waka/Jawaka (Alternate Mix); Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus (Alternate Mix); Eat That Question (Alternate Mix)

CD 3

For Love (I Come Your Friend); Psychosomatic Dung; Uncle Remus (Instrumental); Love; For Love (I Come Your Friend) (Basic Track, Take 1); Psychosomatic Dung (Basic Track, Take 2); Love (Basic Track, Take 1); Approximate (FZ Record Plant Mix); Winterland '72 Opening and Band Introductions; Little Dots

CD 4

America Drinks; Montana; Farther O'Blivion; Cosmik Debris; Chungàs Revenge.

Album

Stealin' Home: Jackie Robinson Suite

Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lieutenant Jackie; Up From the Minors; Stealin' Home; Fatigue; 0 for 3; High and Inside.

Album

Zappa/Erie

Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2022
Track listing:
CD 1
“Someone Has Just Asked Me…”; Cosmik Debris; Pygmy Twylyte; The Idiot Bastard Son; Cheepnis; Inca Roads; Montana; Dupree’s Paradise (Intro).
CD 2
Dupree’s Paradise; It Can’t Happen Here; Hungry Freaks, Daddy; You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here; How Could I Be Such a Fool; I Ain’t Got No Heart; I’m Not Satisfied; Wowie Zowie; Let’s Make the Water Turn Black; Harry, You’re a Beast; The Orange County Lumber Truck; Oh No; Son Of Orange County; More Trouble Every Day; Camarillo Brillo.
CD 3
Montana; Get Down; Tush Tush Tush (A Token Of My Extreme); Stink-Foot; RDNZL; Village of the Sun; Echidna’s Arf (Of You); Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?; Penguin In Bondage; T’Mershi Duween; The Dog Breath Variations; Uncle Meat; Building a Girl; Dinah—Moe Humm.
CD 4
I’m Not Satisfied; Montana; Dupree’s Paradise (Intro); Dupree’s Paradise; Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow; Tush Tush Tush (End Vamp); Oh No; Son of Orange County; More Trouble Every Day.
CD 5
The Purple Lagoon; Stink-Foot; The Poodle Lecture; Dirty Love; Wind Up Workin’ in a Gas Station; Tryin’ to Grow a Chin; The Torture Never Stops; City of Tiny Lites; Pound for a Brown; You Didn’t Try to Call Me; Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink; Would You Go All the Way?
CD 6
Black Napkins; Terry’s Erie ’76 Solo; Patrick’s Erie ’76 Solo; Wonderful Wino; The Purple Lagoon (Outro); Stranded in the Jungle; Dinah-Moe Humm; The Purple Lagoon (Outro); Camarillo Brillo; Muffin Man; The Purple Lagoon (Outro); You Didn’t Try to Call Me; Black Napkins; The Purple Lagoon (Outro).

Article: Album Review

Frank Zappa: Zappa/Erie

Read "Zappa/Erie" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Bobby Bradford and Friends: Stealin' Home: Jackie Robinson Suite

Read "Stealin' Home: Jackie Robinson Suite" reviewed by Chuck Koton


Born in Mississippi in 1934 and raised in Dallas, Texas, cornet master and composer Bobby Bradford knows racism and segregation. When asked if Texas was completely segregated, Bradford said, “If there's a word stronger than 'completely,' that was Texas." In spite of the hate and discrimination of everyday life in the Jim Crow South, Bradford and ...

Article: Album Review

Michael Mantler: Coda - Orchestra Suites

Read "Coda - Orchestra Suites" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Non è mai stato semplice inquadrare l'opera del trombettista e compositore austriaco Michael Mantler. Trasferitosi negli Stati Uniti nel 1960, si è ritrovato coinvolto nel jazz d'avanguardia degli anni '60 a fianco di musicisti come Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp e Roswell Rudd nel Jazz Composers Guild di cui è cofondatore. Da allora si è sempre dedicato ...

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News: Performance / Tour

The Don Preston Trio To Play Virtual Concert At The World Stage On July 2, 2021

The Don Preston Trio To Play Virtual Concert At The World Stage On July 2, 2021

Mothers of Invention keyboard legend Don Preston and his trio will be performing a free-form Virtual Concert at The World Stage on July 2, 2021! Don Preston leads a life filled with music, innovation, and experimentation. “Groundbreaking” is a phrase that is clearly overused… with Preston it rings true. One of the first performers to drag ...


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