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Category Archives: Alumni
Zappanale Fever
Herr Thomas, head cheese over at Zappanale, just announced this year’s headliner (drum roll): Yes, that would be Eddie Jobson!
Posted in Alumni, Frank Zappa, Zappanale
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Project/Object Winter Tour 2011
Project/Object – The Music Of Frank Zappa – is back on tour with Zappa vocalist/guitarists Ike Willis and Ray White, Denny Walley, and Don Preston & Bunk Gardner (Feb 22 only) – along with Andre’ Cholmondeley on guitar and vocals, … Continue reading
Scott Thunes: San Francisco Free Jazz, 2010
founded in 2008, the san francisco jazz collective is a rotating group of well-seasoned musicians that record their music with no charts, no chord changes, no discussions… they simply ‘hit record’ and play. the results have been amazing… sometimes: straight-up … Continue reading
The Bassist: Scott Thunes Interview
Interview with Scott Thunes in the January 2011 issue of Bass Guitar Magazine (found: Idiot Bastard).
Flo & Eddie interviewing FZ
About the ’88 tour, about 200 Motels, about remixing CDs… you’ll love it.
Sunday Big Note – Listening Session #9
As I chose today’s Sunday Big Note Listening Session, I was struck at how, over time, the details of many of these concerts and broadcasts are either lost or omitted by successive trader, poster, torrenter. Venue. Date. Location. Line-up. Important … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Jean-Luc Ponty, Music, Sunday Big Note
Tagged 1976, Hamburg, Jean-Luc Ponty Group, NDR Jazzworkshop, streaming audio
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KUR’s Vinnie Colaiuta Primer Mix
Back on November 26th, 2010, I suggested the idea of a Vinnie Colaiuta inspired mixtape. Little did I know at that time the actual extent of Colaiuta’s extensive recordings. Although he only played with Zappa from Spring 1978 to Fall … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Frank Zappa, Music
Tagged Frank Zappa, mixtape, streaming audio, Vinnie Colaiuta
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Jean-Luc Ponty at Zappanale, 2010
You might want to listen to the original King Kong (’69) album – collected temporarily here.
Posted in Alumni, FZcovers, Jean-Luc Ponty, YouTubery
Tagged Jean-Luc Ponty, Zappanale 2010
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Sunday Big Note – Listening Session #7
I had a completely different artist in mind for this week’s listening session before the sad, untimely passing of poet, painter, musician and all round iconoclast, Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart).
Mike Miller Quintet – Live At The Baked Potato, 2008
Mike Miller, known around Los Angeles as a guitarist’s guitarist, along with the rest of the Mike Miller Quintet – Jimmy Johnson, Chad Wackerman, Walt Fowler, and Albert Wing – performed a live set at Los Angeles’ The Baked Potato … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni, Miscellany, Music, YouTubery
Tagged 2008, albert wing, chad wackerman, jimmy johnson, Mike Miller, Mike Miller Quintet, the Baked Potato, walt fowler
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