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Le Bocal - Oh No!… Just Another Frank Zappa Memorial Barbecue! (2003) {Le Chant Du Monde} [relat. Frank Zappa]
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© 2003 Le Chant Du Monde / Harmonia Mundi | 274 1258
Jazz / Fusion / Experimental / Big Band

March 9, 2004. And the 10th year of the passing from terra of FZ went by in the States without much fanfare, sad enough. But FZ's clearly conceived musical vision will live on, in this case, the new CD from Le Bocal, a modern French big band , "commissioned" by the distributors of Rykodisc in France to record select compositions of FZ. By sheer serendipity, this band was really perfect choice to record "Zappamusics",as they already exhibit 3 features found in all Zappa aggregations, exceptional musicianship, a fine sense of humor,and they have their feet in the worlds of jazz, rock and classical music forms, same time. The real beauty here lies in fact that , this is relative "unique" in the performance, ~ these musicians are not "Zappatistas" in the sense that, say Ed Palermo(1000stars) or Mike Keneally are. (MR Keneally in particular has his guitar style completely drenched in Frank Zappa's concepts in the way many Jazz musicians continue follow in the Wes Montgomery mold, for example).

Fred Ho & The Green Monster Big Band - Year of the Tiger (2011) {Innova 789}
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Experimental / Modern Big Band / Creative Orchestra

To approximate the first half of Fred Ho's album Year of the Tiger, it's necessary to imagine the sound that might be created if the members of Duke Ellington & His Orchestra were mixed with the players from Parliament/Funkadelic and set loose on the Michael Jackson and Jimi Hendrix catalogs. That's right, songs like "Thriller" and "Purple Haze" get severely retrofitted into an aggressive, irreverent jazz-funk style, with harsh, massed horn parts. Sometimes, the sound resembles a couple of high-school marching bands fighting it out on the same football field.

While many considered Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and Essence as definitive statements of arrival for Lucinda Williams as a pop star, she "arrived" creatively with her self-titled album in 1988 and opened up a further world of possibilities with Sweet Old World. The latter two records merely cemented a reputation that was well-deserved from the outset, though they admittedly confused some of her earliest fans. World Without Tears is the most immediate, unpolished album she's done since Sweet Old World…

Killer first official Live disc by this amazing, bad-ass axeripper from San Diego. Includes 13 tracks (73 minutes) of mega-awesome, brain-damaging, retro-sonic, over-the-top, blues-based, heavy guitar power trio riffage/mojo that will kick your ass and rock your world into the next guitar rockin' musical dimension. Captured live & loud without a net, we are transformed from the norm and experience "Total Guitar Rock Fury" of the highest order from this phenomenal, supreme guitarist. Brett Ellis is a true modern day guitar hero who speaks the same musical language as the guitar greats. The man is a veritable + powerful six string hurricane on the instrument, an awesome beyond belief heavy guitar rock force to be reckoned with.