Friday, February 27, 2026

BLACK FLOWER 2022 CONCERT ON YOUTUBE

A must-see and must-hear concert.

Black Flower, November 26, 2022,
Recorded at Jazztime Ravensburg.

  • Nathan Daems – sax, ney, kaval, fl
  • Jon Birdsong – cornet
  • Karel Cuelenaere – org, clavinet
  • Filip Vandebril – b
  • Simon Segers – dr

 -- info: Danny Mathys

Thursday, February 26, 2026

KAMEEL - BLEAK

Belgian band Kameel.

With Rudy Trouvé as a guest (on vocals)


SJAKO! ANNOUNCED A NEW ALBUM

 A new album, "Senior Citizens", and new concert dates for Dutch band Sjako!.

February 27, 2026, The tour will kick off in Haarlem.
Check https://sjako.eu/

Here's Sjako! performing FZ's 'Magic Fingers', in concert in Apeldoorn in 2016.



Wednesday, February 25, 2026

BOBBY BRANDFORD, MARK DRESSER & GLENN FERRIS - LIVE IN L.A.

  • Bobby Bradford, Mark Dresser & Glenn Ferris: Live In L.A.
        (2011, cd, Portugal, clean feed)
Bobby Bradford (who also recorded with Don Preston) on cornet, Mark Dresser on bass, and Glenn Ferris (who performed and recorded with Frank Zappa) on trombone.
A live session, not recorded in a club before an audience, but in Bruce Fowler's (another famous Frank Zappa trombone player) living room.


-- info: Jan van Kemenade

DARKO THE SUPER - BEWARE OF BOB

Darko The Super has just released "Beware Of Bob".
Produced by MF Grimm.

‘Beware of Bob’ is an out-of-this-world album that is inspired by the truly singular television experience ‘Twin Peaks’ and rooted in Hip-Hop.

I like it.


NEW BOOK ON ZAPPA - - - FRANK ZAPPA - THE LIFE, MUSIC, AND LEGACY...

"Frank Zappa, The LIfe, Music, and Legacy of an Unconvnetional Artist - An Independent Biography"
by Susan M. Chloe

90 pages, hardcover.
It looks and reads like some sort of an AI supported introduction to FZ.


NEW BOOK ON FRANK ZAPPA'S DISSONANT PHILOSOPHY BY BEBO BEST

 Available in English and in Italian:
"Frank Zappa, The Dissonant Philosophy"
and
"Contro Ogni Autorita' - La Filosofia Dissonante Di Frank Zappa"
by Bebo Best

The different chapters discuss politics, dogmas and religion, technology, pop as parody, family man, the yellow shark, dweezil & the ZFT.

50 pages.
Nothing new, but nice to browse through.





Monday, February 23, 2026

MAURO PAWLOWSKI - ALWAYS SOMEONE

'Always Someone'
From Mauro Pawlowski's "Eternal Sunday Drive".

Also out on 7". On gold swirl vinyl.

  • Mauro Pawlowski: Always Someone
        (2020, 7", Belgium, unday records)

ANGINE DE POITRINE

 


Sunday, February 22, 2026

MOO-AH !

The upcoming Moo-Ah! Frank Zappa tribute festival has the most amazing line-up.

This 5th edition will feature John Etheridge' Zappatistas, Treacherous Cretins and The Muffin Men. Gabba Zappa Hey!, Fred Händl, and Turbulator.

March 20 & 21, 2026. 

https://www.festivalmoo-ah.com/

Check out the German Rockradio special:
https://www.rockradio.de/sendung_info.php?auswahl_lfdnr=39019&name_der_seite1=zappatime