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The Resurrection of Frank Zappa's Soul
Two of the iconic Southern California artist's classic compositions, Lumpy Gravy and We're Only In It for the Money, will get the grand reissue treatment. Fifteen years ago last Thursday, American iconoclast Frank Zappa died at age 52; on December 21, he would have been 68. He left an impressive body of musical work, both on ...
Frank Zappa's Widow Protects His Legacy
For Gail Zappa, that means making sure that her late husband 'has the last word in terms of anybody's idea of who he is. And his actual last word is his music.' WHOEVER devised the slipknot contract clause “into perpetuity" hadn't conceived a Gail Zappa. She's made it her job to parse the music industry's dense ...
More Frank Zappa Releases
VAULT FLIES OPEN IN 2008 Cardboard Eyes! The Zappa Family Trust headed by Frank Zappa's widow Gail Zappa, operates under the principal of AAAFNRAA: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime For No Reason At All. It's a phrase that Frank Zappa used often in his lifetime and it serves as a guiding principle for much of the work carried ...
Zappa What's New in Baltimore
Baltimore to boast bronze statue of Frank Zappa/ Lithuanian fan club gives the statue to the musician's birth city. “What's new in Baltimore?" Frank Zappa used to sing at the end of a long, characteristically off-the-wall rock jam he called “Clowns on Velvet." What's new in Baltimore, the city in which the late rock star was ...
Zappa and Jazz
by AAJ Staff
By Ed Palermo As leader of the Ed Palermo Big Band for the past 30 years, it was about 13 years ago, when my boyhood hero, Frank Zappa, died that I decided to put my own original compositions on hold and focus on the music of Zappa. I decided to pay tribute to the ...
Interpreting the Music of Frank Zappa: Ed Palermo Big Band & Struber Z'Tett
by Ken Dryden
There have been a number of bands which have recorded rocker Frank Zappa's music over the past few decades, though jazz bands have only been exploring it for a fairly brief time. Two recent discs, one by a bandleader who has devoted himself to arranging 100s of Zappa compositions and another who may have only a ...
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore (Gold)
By Frank Zappa
Label: Original Jazz Classics
Released: 2006
