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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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Shapiro: Plan To Be Spontaneous

Read "Plan To Be Spontaneous" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


With mallets at the fore, a solid set of originals on the program and a strong cast in the mix, vibraphonist Steve Shapiro's musical voice and vision is clear-- and really something to hear--across this seven-song set. Working under the banner of a perfectly paradoxical title, he makes his mark from a number of angles--those of ...

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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).

Album

Zappa '75 Zagreb / Ljubljana

Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD1: Managua; Stink Foot; The Poodle Lecture; Dirty Love; How Could I Be Such A Fool; I Ain't Got No heart; I'm Not Satisfied; Black Napkins; Advance Romance; Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?; The Illinois Enema Bandit; Carolina Hard-core Ecstacy; Lonely Little Girl; Take Your Clothes Off When you Dance; What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? Chunga's Revenge (Part 1); CD2: Chunga's Revenge (Part 2); Terry's Zagreb Solo; Zoot Allures; Filthy Habits (Prototype); Camarillo Brillo; Muffin Man; I'm The Slime; San Ber'dino; Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station; Terry's Ljubljana Solo; Zoot Allures.

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.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Gaia Mattiuzzi, Wojtek Mazolewski, Flat Earth Society, Ari Joshua, Frank Zappa & More New Releases

Read "Gaia Mattiuzzi, Wojtek Mazolewski, Flat Earth Society, Ari Joshua, Frank Zappa & More New Releases" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


This week a catchy and eclectic playlist, which straddles many stylistic lines and influences, opens in the spirit of Zappa and ends with Zappa himself and yet another gem recently unearthed from his bottomless vault. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Fred Pallem ...

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Article: Album Review

Al Di Meola / Jean-Luc Ponty / Stanley Clarke: Rite Of Strings Live at Montreux 1994

Read "Rite Of Strings Live at Montreux 1994" reviewed by Doug Collette


By the time Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarke were recorded in 1994 at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival—remarkably, in their first time ever playing together in public—each had established a solid reputation in the jazz-fusion field and beyond. Accordingly, it might be seen as destiny that the three would work together in some ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazz Promotion Network Conference 2022

Read "Jazz Promotion Network Conference 2022" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Jazz Promotion Network Conference 2022 The MAC Belfast, Northern Ireland November 3-4, 2022 Jazz Promotion Network's (JPN) annual conference saw over one hundred delegates gather at Belfast's Metropolitan Arts Centre (The MAC) for two days of talks, exchange of ideas and music showcases (see separate article). Founded around a decade ago, ...

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News: Event

Marcus Rezak & PR Productions Assemble An All-Star Lineup Ft. Members Of The Doors, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, The Motet & More For Friendsgiving Show At Troubadour In West Hollywood

Marcus Rezak & PR Productions Assemble An All-Star Lineup Ft. Members Of The Doors, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, The Motet & More For Friendsgiving Show At Troubadour In West Hollywood

On Friday, November 25th, virtuosic guitarist Marcus Rezak will perform a special Friendsgiving show with an all-star lineup at the legendary Troubadour in West Hollywood, California. Presented by PR Productions, the three-set performance will feature Felix Pastorius (Hipster Assassins), Dave Watts (The Motet), Wally Ingram (Bob Weir/Phil Lesh), Adam MacDougall (Circles Around the Sun), Ben “Smiley” ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

Beyond Classical: Divine Hand Explores “Aria 51”

Read "Beyond Classical: Divine Hand Explores “Aria 51”" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


In the early 1920s, musician and physicist Lev Terman invented an electronic proximity alarm, which shrieked louder and higher noise when something (or someone) moved closer to its antenna, as a motion detector for the Russian penal system. A concert cellist and physicist, Terman (Leon Theremin) realized that intervals of that sliding sound theoretically corresponded to ...


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