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Frank Zappa
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Frank Vincent Zappa was born on 21 December 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. His parents were second-generation Sicilian Greeks, the family had arabian and french origins too. His father played "strolling crooner" guitar. At the age of 12 Frank, who had relocated to California with his family, became interested in drums, learning orchestral percussion at summer school in Monterey. In high school he had some more harmony training because he was an unruly senior, and was given permission to take some harmony classes "to occupy his mind with". In fact, he found the training very boring. The first time he had any of his music performed was at Mount St
Zappa/Erie
By Frank Zappa
Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD1: “Someone Has Just Asked Me…”; Cosmik Debris; Pygmy
Twylyte; The Idiot Bastard Son; Cheepnis; Inca Roads;
Montana; Dupree’s Paradise (Intro); CD2: 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; CD3: 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; CD4: 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; CD5: 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?; CD6: 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)
Will Bernard Finds His Own Path To Jazz Career
by Jim Trageser
Guitarist Will Bernard doesn't consider himself a “regular" jazz player. He says this occurred to him when he was being asked to play on some recording sessions in New York. “In New York, I've been doing some recording—I did three records for PosiTone, which is more of a jazz label. They're actually ...
Mysteries Of The Revolution: Longing For The Dawn
by Chris May
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Take Five with Tobin Mueller
by AAJ Staff
Meet Tobin Mueller Connecticut-based composer, arranger, playwright and pianist Tobin Mueller has just released his 35th album: Prestidigitation, drawing on a long career of innovation and artistry. Mueller's compositions range from Jazz Fusion to Progressive Rock, Broadway musicals to Old-School Funk, Classical ballet to video games. His jazz ensemble recordings have featured legendary bassist Ron Carter, ...
Tobin Mueller's New Album 'Prestidigitation' Celebrates The Founders Of Jazz Fusion
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Exposures
by John Kelman
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Moers Festival Interviews: Max Johnson
by Martin Longley
New York bassist Max Johnson has embarked on a European tour with his trio, in the run-up to the release of their new album Orbit Of Sound (Unbroken Sounds, 2022). They are playing crucial venues such as Roskam in Brussels and The Loft in Cologne, doubtless climaxing at the Moers Festival, also in Germany (3rd-6th June). ...
Jean-Luc Ponty: Imaginary Voyages, Part 1
by Peter Rubie
Part 1 | Part 2 Jazz is an art form that has been a singular hothouse of musical talent over the decades. There are, and have been, lots of not just great but brilliant players. But perhaps not unsurprisingly, there have been far fewer jazz originals. I mean by that, musicians whose playing has ...
The Gil Evans Orchestra: Live At Fabrik
by Ian Patterson
By the time Gil Evans led the Gil Evans Orchestra at the Hamburg Jazz Festival in 1986, it had been holding down the Monday night slot at Sweet Basil for the previous three years. The majority of the GEO's regular musicians were with him for this performance at Fabrik, a 19th century machine-parts factory converted into ...
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