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Jazz Musician of the Day: Frank Zappa
All About Jazz is celebrating Frank Zappa's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Frank ZappaFrank 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... more ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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