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Article: Year in Review

I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 2, 2025

Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “è tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando ...

Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 31, 2024

Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...

Album

Whisky A Go Go 1968

By Frank Zappa

Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2024
Track listing:
CD 1:
Whisky Improvisation: Episode I; America Drinks & Goes Home; Help, I’m a Rock / Transylvania Boogie; My Boyfriend’s Back; Bust His Head; Tiny Sick Tears Jam; "The Purpose of This Evening…"; Whisky Improvisation: Episode II; Status Back Baby; Memories of El Monte; Oh, in the Sky
CD 2:
Valerie; "Fun & Merriment"; Hungry Freaks, Daddy; King Kong - Part 1; King Kong - Part 2; Octandre; Whisky Improvisation: Episode III; Meow; God Bless America; Presentation of Wings; Plastic People; Della’s Preamble; The Duke - Take 1; The Duke - Take 2; Khaki Sack.
CD 3:
The Whip; Whisky Chouflée; Brown Shoes Don’t Make It; Brown Shoes Shuffle; The Whip (FZ Mix); Hungry Freaks, Daddy (FZ Mono Mix).

Album

Apostrophe (') 50th Anniversary Edition

By Frank Zappa

Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Disc 1 (Original 1974 Album--2024 Remaster):
Don't Eat the Yellow Snow; Nanook Rubs It; St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast; Father O'Blivion; Cosmik Debris; Excentrifugal Forz; Apostrophe'; Uncle Remus; Stink-Foot; Don't Eat the Yellow Snow; Nanook Rubs It; Nanook Rubs It (Session Outtake); Cosmik Debris (Basic Tracks—Take 3); Excentrifugal Forz (Mix Outtake); Apostrophe' (Mix Outtake); Uncle Remus (Mix Outtake); Apostrophe' (Unedited Master/2024 Mix); Uncle Remus (Piano And Vocal Mix 2024).
Disc 2 (Bonus Concert #1--Colorado Springs, Colorado, 21 March 1974):
Colorado Springs '74 Show Start; Village of the Sun; Echidna's Arf (Of You); Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?; Babbette; Approximate; Cosmik Debris; Pygmy Twylyte; The Idiot Bastard Son; Cheepnis; Montana; Dupree's Paradise Intro.
Disc 3 (Colorado Springs, Colorado--Continued):
Dupree's Paradise; Is There Anything Good Inside of You?; Florentine Pogen; Kung Fu; Penguin in Bondage; T'Mershi Duween; The Dog Breath Variations; Uncle Meat; RDNZL; Medley: King Kong/Chunga's Revenge/Son of Mr. Green Genes.
Disc 4 (Early 1974 Bonus Live Track):
Inca Roads; 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.
Disc 5 (Dayton Ohio--Continued):
Dinah-Moe Humm; Camarillo Brillo; Pygmy Twylyte; Room Service; Tush Tush Tush (End Vamp); Don't Eat the Yellow Snow; Nanook Rubs It; St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast; Father O'Blivion; Apostrophe (') TV Ad; Don't Eat the Yellow Snow (Single Edit); Goteborg GTR; Approximate—Bale; ...The Poodle Bites...
Disc 6 (Blue Ray Audio): Don't Eat the Yellow Snow; Nanook Rubs It; St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast; Father O'Blivion; Cosmik Debris; Excentrifugal Forz; Apostrophe'; Uncle Remus; Stink-foot.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Valentina Ciardelli, Anais Drago, Riccardo Angelo Strano, Frank Zappa & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 21, 2024

Here is a segment of Mondo Jazz located somewhere between French and Frank... French as in the jazz scene Airelle Besson, Oan Kim and Yonathan Avishai hail from, and Frank as in Zappa. The playlist features a tribute to Zappa's genius by Valentina Ciardelli, Anais Drago, Riccardo Angelo Strano, as well as two of the countless ...

Article: Album Review

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Exit) Knarr: Breezy

by Rob Garratt
December 7, 2024

When news of Jaimie Branch's passing broke in 2022, there was an understandably huge outpouring of tributes from different corners of the jazz community. While an eternal punk rocker at heart, Branch was also a distinctly millennial musician, and a fitting figurehead for the recent wave of borderless improvised music that came out of Chicago's International ...

Article: Live Review

Marilyn Mazur Shamania al Teatro Golden di Palermo. Rassegna Catania Jazz 2024.

by Maurizio Zerbo
November 21, 2024

Marilyn Mazur Shamania Teatro Golden Palermo 13 novembre 2024 Presentato in prima nazionale a Catania e Palermo, il progetto Shamania sintetizza l'enciclopedismo musicale di Marilyn Mazur che ha mutuato, con coordinate diverse, quanto fatto nel jazz e nel rock da Don Cherry, Miles Davis e Frank Zappa. Sul palco ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Jazz on Soul, Pop, Rock, Folk, and other intangible territories - Part 2

by Artur Moral
November 7, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 James Carter soloing on a song by Sting? A prolific French guitarist and producer, approaching his thousandth album, deconstructing one of Billy Joel's most candid love songs? A Spanish trumpeter translating the Bee Gees into the jazz language? Yes, all this will happen in this second installment of a ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Apostrophe (') 50th Anniversary Edition

by Mario Calvitti
November 4, 2024

Come era stato ampiamente previsto, facendo seguito a Over-Nite Sensation anche l'album immediatamente successivo nella discografia ufficiale di Frank Zappa, Apostrophe('), riceve il trattamento speciale della 50th Anniversary Edition, con l'uscita di un cofanetto contenente oltre all'album originale vario materiale aggiuntivo in studio e live distribuito su 5 CD, oltre a un Blu-ray Disc con le ...

Article: Profile

A Brief Guide To Lebanese Jazz

by Ian Patterson
October 22, 2024

Lebanon is known for many things--its lush valleys, a fertile coastal plain and a 170 km-long mountain range carpeted with cedar, oak and pine. Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon, Tyre, Byblos and Baalbek--its cities' names resonate with history's vibrations. These are cities that have borne more history than most. It is a country renowned for its ...