GAIL ZAPPA ON FRANK ZAPPA DAY IN BALTIMORE 2011 09 17

A slightly edited, 30-minute cell phone video of Gail talking at the POEt HOUSE, the screening of 200 Motels, and on stage during the rededication of Frank Zappa's bust at the Enoch Pratt free Library. Also included is Jerry Lawson (The Persuasions) performing "Love of my Life" and "What's new in Baltimore."

http://www.vimeo.com/29234820

PATRICK O'HEARN ON LATEST JOHN HIATT ALBUM

Patrick O'Hearn played bass in Frank Zappa's band for a couple of years in the late seventies. More recently, Patrick has been playing the bass in John Hiatt's band.

He is featured on John Hiatt's latest album "Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns".

-- info: Danny Mathys

VARGTON PROJEKT

The Vargton Projekt is a project by Morgan Ågren, Mats Hedberg and Björn Jansson.
The band has just released their debut album : "ProgXpriMetal".

It's described as "a varied and special release that will satisfy the extremist metal and hard rock fan and Zappa freaks too with its wide ranging sound."

The soundsamples sure sound very promising.

www.myspace.com/vargtonprojekt

www.lionmusic.com/

Here's a little jam by Morgan Ågren and Mats Hedberg...

LAST MINUTE PALERMO

Tonight thru Friday, October 5, 6 & 7
Ed Palermo Big Band
featuring Napoleon Murphy Brock and Mike Keneally

The Iridium
1650 Broadway (51st)
New York, NY 10019
(212) 582-2121
Showtimes 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Admission $30

CORRIE VAN BINSBERGEN LIVE ON DUTCH RADIO 6 LAST SATURDAY

Last Saturday, 2011 10 01, Corrie van Binsbergen was a guest in Jaap Boots' radio show on dutch Radio 6 (webradio).

Corrie van Binsbergen performed

• More Stories From The Girl Who Wasn't Talking (an answer song to F.Zappa's "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar")


• De Weg Kwijt (with Bob Fosko & Beatrice van der Poel)


• You're Under Arrest (including Zappa samples)

And she did an interview with Jaap Boots.
Nice. Very nice.
She definitely needs to release a solo guitar album...

www.radio6.nl

-- thanks to Klotz !!

TOM ZÉ

Wikipedia says:
Remaining true to the experimental and Dada impulses of Tropicália, Tom Zé has been noted for both his unorthodox approach to melody and instrumentation, employing various objects as instruments such as the typewriter.
He has collaborated with many of the concrete poets of São Paulo, including Augusto de Campos, and employed concrete techniques in his lyrics. Musically, his work appropriates samba, Bossa Nova, Brazilian folk music, forró, and American rock and roll, among others.
He has been praised by avant-garde composers for his use of dissonance, polytonality, and unusual time signatures. Because of the experimental nature of many of his compositions, Zé has been compared with American musicians such as Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart.

If you want to check Tom Zé out in concert, he'll be playing in Belgium and in Holland in a couple of weeks: Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels, Utrecht, Valenciennes, ...

-- info: Zjakki Willems

JACK BRUCE - SOMETHIN' ELS

• jack bruce: somethin' else
  (1993, cd, usa, ??)

Legendary bass player Jack Bruce is part of the United Mutations Archives because he jammed with Frank Zappa and Jim Gorden in 1972. The result got released as 'Apostrophe (')'.

In 1993, Jack Bruce recorded (another) solo album. Featured on "Somethin' Els" are Bruce and Walt Fowler (trombone & trumpet) who were both once part of Zappa's band.

If you want to check out the album, you can do so at:
http://butseriouslyfolks11.blogspot.com/2011/10/jack-bruce-somethin-els-1993.html

-- info & link: Jan van Kemenade

KENEALLY / BELLER WEST COAST TOUR STARTS THIS WEEK

Bryan Beller says:
KENEALLY / BELLER WEST COAST TOUR STARTS THIS WEEK

Ladies and gentlemen, I humbly write you on this fine fall day to say one thing, and one thing only. Matter of fact, I think I just said it in the line above this one.

And I'll even say it again: Yes, The Mike Keneally Band and the Bryan Beller Band are starting their first-ever joint tour of the west coast in just one week!


Mike Keneally Band
with special guest Bryan Beller Band
West Coast Tour 2011

Wednesday 10/12 - Don Quixote's, Felton (Santa Cruz), CA
Thursday 10/13 - Biscuits & Blues, San Francisco, CA
Friday 10/14 - Music Max, Palo Cedro (Redding), CA
Saturday 10/15 - Humbrew's, Arcata, CA
Monday 10/17 - Mt. Tabor Pub, Portland, OR
Tuesday 10/18 - The Rendezvous, Seattle, WA
Friday 10/21 - Winston's, San Diego, CA
Saturday 10/22 - The Baked Potato, Studio City, CA
Sunday 10/23 - The Lark Barn, Anaheim, CA

CORRIE EN DE GROTE BROKKEN - VIER !

• corrie en de grote brokken: vier!
  (2011, cd, nl, brokken records br005)

Composer / guitarist Corrie van Binsbergen is celebrating her 25 years in the music business with a short tour with her Corrie en de Grote Brokken band. Coinciding, she released "Vier !", sort of a compilation - best of album of de Grote Brokken band.

This is the real deal, my friends. Great music, funny, lots of variation, AND superb musicians.

Highly recommended.

The album includes Corrie's tribute to Frank Zappa: 'Zootsuit I & II'

INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE OF THE CNDM WILL BE PERFOMING ZAPPA IN MADRID ON 2011 10 04

04/10/2011 at 19:30 hrs will be the premiere of the Instrumental Ensemble of the CNDM (National Centre for Musical Difussion) at the National Music Auditorium in Madrid, Spain.

Premiere del Conjunto Instrumental del CNDM ( Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical) en el Auditorio Nacional de Música en Madrid, Sala Cámara. Proyecto 20/21 /Fronteras 1

Conducted by Joan Cerveró, the ensemble will be performing:

• Bolero (Maurice Ravel / Frank Zappa)


• Eclat (Pierre Boulez)


• Semana Santa en Gomorra (Juan José Colomer)


• Déserts (Edgard Varèse)


• The Yellow Shark Suite (Frank Zappa)


• Be-Bop Tango (Frank Zappa)


• Outrage at Valdez (Frank Zappa)


• Welcome to the United States (Frank Zappa)


• G-Spot Tornado (Frank Zappa)

-- info: Javier Marcote