Results for "Ed Palermo"

A Lousy Day in Harlem is a great day for jazz with The Ed Palermo Big Band! Available now!

September 30, 2019

A Lousy Day in Harlem is a great day for jazz with The Ed Palermo Big Band, as the band known for reinventing the music of Frank Zappa turns its attention to a riveting program of Monk, Coltrane, Ellington, and hard-swinging originals, confirming Ed Palermo’s place in jazz’s top ranks of contemporary big band arrangers. In a ...

Ed Palermo

Ed Palermo is not a “business as usual” musician. After all, when most people think of “big bands” they think of Duke and Dorsey. But go to see Ed Palermo’s Big Band and you might hear Zappa, Hendrix, the blues of Paul Butterfield & Mike Bloomfield or one of Ed’s own compositions, loaded with lush turns and unexpected twists.

Gil Evans wonderfully articulated Palermo’s unusual approach to traditional instrumentation:

“I first heard Ed Palermo’s music in a small club in the SoHo section of Manhattan. He was using the instrumentation of a traditional big band yet his arrangements and songs were anything but that. When I thought the music was going a certain direction, it would suddenly turn a corner. Ed has the ability to keep that important balance between cohesiveness and unpredictability. Ed Palermo’s music is alive and represents now.”

From C to Shining C

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 10, 2019

The broadcast fell after Independence Day but included sparkling new releases from vocalists Rachelle Garniez, Lucy Yeghiazaryan, Isabel Crespo (For Now) and saxophonist Bob Sheppard, with birthday shout outs to Louis Armstrong, organist Rhoda Scott, vocalists Claudia Acuna, Melissa Walker and trombonist Natalie Cressman among others. Playlist Rhoda Scott “From C to Shining C" ...

Frank Zappa's Jazz Legacy Refuses to Die

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 13, 2018

Frank Zappa may have said “jazz is not dead, it just smells funny" but looking at his life and music one does not get the impression that he really believed that jazz was decomposing or dying a slow death. On Freak Out, one of the most impressive debut albums of all times, he ...

Anais Drago Interprets Zappa

by Bob Osborne
November 29, 2018

This episode features the debut album from Italian Violinist Anais Drago who interprets and builds on the music of Frank Zappa. In addition there is music from Frank himself and also jazz and other interpretations of his music from a variety of different ensembles. Playlist Anais Drago “Phialella Zappa 1" from Anais Drago ...

Riccardo Fassi Tankio Band: The Return of the Fat Chicken

by Mario Calvitti
February 19, 2018

Il nuovo CD inciso dal pianista e arrangiatore Riccardo Fassi con la sua Tankio Band è completamente dedicato alla musica di Frank Zappa, compositore che figura nel repertorio del gruppo almeno dal 1994, quando venne pubblicato l'album Plays the Music of Frank Zappa, del quale rappresenta una sorta di seguito ideale. Inevitabile il raffronto con Ed ...

The Great Un-American Songbook, Volumes I & II

By Ed Palermo

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2017

The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren

By Ed Palermo

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: The Solemn Z-Men Credo; Peaches En Regalia; Influenza; Yer Fast; Absolutely Free; Breathless (Part 1); Big Swifty; Kiddie Boy; Montana; Emperor of the Highway; You Are What You Is; Echidna's Arf (Of You); Hello It's Me; Big Swifty Coda; Wailing Wall; Florentine Pogen; Flamingo; Marqueson's Chicken; Song of the Viking; Janet's Big Dance Number; Broke Down and Busted; Breathless (Part 2); Zoot Allures; Yer Fast (Reprise).

Ed Palermo: The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren

by Karl Ackermann
October 16, 2017

It isn't a characteristically positive sign when an album incorporates obvious humor into its credits and occasionally, the music itself. The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren could raise red flags with its title, personnel adjectives such as “Terrifying Trombones" and listing Kellyanne Conway as “Alternative Executive Producer." But a listener familiar with The Ed Palermo Big Band, ...

The Ed Palermo Big Band brings together two fave 1960s American Pop/Rock Superheroes for "The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren"

October 13, 2017

Ed Palermo may have gained an international following with his ingenious orchestral arrangements of Frank Zappa tunes, but he’s hardly a one-trick pony. Earlier in the year, the saxophonist released an uproarious double album The Great Un-American Songbook Volumes 1 & 2, a project celebrating an expansive roster of songs by successive waves of British invaders, ...