NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH ED PALERMO

Tonight at 'The Falcon' in Marlboro, NY.
The Ed Palermo Big Band, featuring Napoleon Murphy Brock.

https://www.liveatthefalcon.com/

THE RETURN OF RONDO HATTON BY SCOTT PARKER

• the recordings of frank zappa - volume five / 1974 - 1975: the return of rondo hatton
  by scott parker
      (2012, book, usa, private release)

 Scott Parker took on the task to catalog and to discuss Frank Zappa's recordings.
A couple of years ago, he reached the years 1974 (the Roxy band !!) and 1975 (with Captain Beefheart) and put the result in volume 5 of his inimitable series.
- the official releases : albums on LP, re-releases on CD, singles and samplers ;
- bootlegs on vinyl and on CD;
- the live recordings  (audience recordings, radio shows, the lot)

Again, fine artwork by Robert Ross

THE RUDY SCHWARTZ PROJECT COMPILATION ALBUMS

Could it be possible that I forgot to mention that The Rudy Schwartz Project has two compilation albums out?

Both are available from Kunaki.
http://kunaki.com/mSales.asp?PublisherId=148137

And both of them need your attention !

• the rudy schwartz project: the best of the austin years
      (2017, cdr-on-demand, usa, dc-jam records / kunaki)

• the rudy schwartz project: twenty smash hits from the montréal years
      (2017, cdr-on-demand, usa, dc-jam records / kunaki)

CABALLERO REYNALDO - ORIGINAL ALBUM SERIES

• caballero reynaldo: original album series
      (2016, 10cd, spain, hall of fame)

Caballero Reynaldo's "Original Album Series" collects 10 albums by the famous Spanish artist. Some of these are known to this blog as they contain loads of Zappa compositions.
If you don't have these albums yet, this might be the perfect opportunity to get hold of them.
All albums have been issued in a cardboard cover with the original artwork.
Impressive.

HILDEGARD LERNT FLIEGEN - CINEMA HILDEGARD

• hildegard lernt fliegen: cinéma hildegard
      (2012, cd+dvd+book, ger, unit records)

The third album of Hildergard Lernt Fliegen got released in 2012.
Quite spectacular, it contained a CD (live), a DVD, a book and a (smaller size) tourposter.
Live in Moskou and more.
With Andreas Schaerer in great shape.
One of the top acts at the most recent Zappanale festival.
Data has been added to the United Mutations Archives.

NNO + DWEEZIL ZAPPA ON DUTCH RADIO RIGHT NOW

Right now !!

http://www.nposoulenjazz.nl/colive

CHATO! - SO UND NICHT ANDERS

• chato!: so und nicht anders
      (2017, cd, ger, time-zone)

I brought this album home from Zappanale, where Chato! played a breathtaking live set.
"So Und Nicht Anders" is at least as incredible. I guess it's one of my favourite 2017 releases.

The album is funny. It's zappa-esque progressive rock, and it includes an excellent reworked version of FZ's 'Let's Move To Cleveland'.
Completely my kind of music !

Top disc.

ZAFTIG BY EDWARD KOMARA AND SCOTT PARKER

• zaftig
  by edward komara with scott parker
      (2015, book, usa, scott parker books)
  
  "The Zappa Family Trust Compact Disc Issues Guide"

In this 360-page tome, Edward Komara takes a look at Frank Zappa's catalogue. More specifically, the various albums in the compact disc format.
Each album gets a seperate entry with
- #
- title
- picture
- performers
- place(s) it got recorded
- song titles
- the cd releases
- available transcriptions
- 'here's the deal' (comments by the author)
- rating
- songs to download
- differences between the zft cd reissue and the previous cd reissues

It ends with album #100 : "Dance Me This".
There's also a name index, a song title index, a score index, and a chronological recording date index.

PAUL WHITE - THE STRANGE DREAMS OF PAUL WHITE

(handmade, hand-stamped pillowcase for the CD)

(the actual album)

• paul white: the strange dreams of paul white
      (2009, cd, uk, one-handed music)

Paul White is a London-based producer who has released a handful of solo albums.
His first album came in a special package : a handmade, hand-stamped pillowcase with a carboard fold-out album inside. Pretty.
The album itself is a collection of beats, melodies and samples. Sort of plunderphonic puzzles.
I do like it.
Track number 6, 'Alien Nature' ends with a Beefheart sample (Beefheart going 'Fast 'n' Bulbous');
Track 11, 'Sugar Free Airlines' has a Zappa sample near the end (from 'Are You Hung Up?')
And there's lots of other familiar sounding snippets. Nicely done.

From his 2011 album, "Rapping With Paul White" :


Here's a more recent clip :

WOODY HERMAN - THUNDERING HERD

• woody herman: thundering herd
      (1974, lp, usa, fantasy 9452)

I didn't know this, but the 1974 album "Thundering Herd", by Woody Herman had been re-issued on CD in 1995.
Data has been added to the United Mutations Archives.

This is the album on which Woody Herman's band performs Frank Zappa's 'America Drinks And Goes Home'.