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The Ed Palermo Big Band: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

Read "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" reviewed by Gina Vodegel


If two is company, would three be a crowd? In addition to an already published pair of positive reviews of this homage to Frank Zappa, this third review will hopefully sail off as a good luck charm for Ed Palermo's future enterprises. Not that he really needs it, given the fact that NPR featured Palermo and ...

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The Ed Palermo Big Band: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

Read "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Saxophonist and bandleader Ed Palermo has been arranging and performing the music of rock icon Frank Zappa for the last twelve years. 25 years ago he assembled a sixteen-piece big band of New York-based musicians which have played regularly at various Manhattan jazz clubs. This album is Palermo's second recording specifically dedicated to Zappa's original music. ...

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The Ed Palermo Big Band: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

Read "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Ed Palermo first saw Frank Zappa performing in 1969, and that was to become a life-altering vision which would enlarge his perspective of what music could and should be. The fact that he migrated to jazz and picked up the saxophone while in university a few years later did not change the effect that Zappa wrought. ...

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The Ed Palermo Big Band: Plays the Music of Frank Zappa

Read "Plays the Music of Frank Zappa" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Frank Zappa’s now batting .500. I’d heard one other big–band tribute to Zappa’s music (by an ensemble that will remain nameless) and was thoroughly unimpressed. But the second time’s a charm — and a charmer as well. What’s the difference? It has to be the fabulous charts by bandleader / alto saxophonist Ed Palermo who’s long ...

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Plays the Music of Frank Zappa

Label: Astor Place
Released: 1997
Track listing: Tracklist

Peaches En Regalia 2:51

Toads Of The Short Forest 7:05

Who Are The Brain Police / Holiday In Berlin (Excerpt) 5:16

Twenty Small Cigars 5:42

King Kong 4:08

Aybe Sea 5:12

Waka / Jawaka 5:15

Sofa #1 4:35

The Little House I Used To Live In 5:27

We Are Not Alone 5:20

Wai,fn ? 2:22

Album

Ping Pong

Label: ProJazz
Released: 1987
Track listing: Tracklist

1 Ping Pong 4:26

2 All Out 3:16

3 3 Views Of A Secret 4:28

4 The Goose 4:13

5 Rat Phobia 5:16

6 Mood For Maude 2:44

7 Darkness 5:11

(Written By – Steve Copeland)

8 Perry Mason Theme 3:49

9 Goodnight 2:44

10 Bitches Crystal 5:50

11 Your Spleen Perhaps 4:30

12 I.G.Y. (D. Fagen) 4:25

(Written By – Donald Fagen)


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