Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Grand Wazoo
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Free Music Review: A wonderful jazz disc
Hit: 4 Stars
"The Grand Wazoo" is different from typical Zappa albums because it's mainly instrumental jazz. No satirical lyrics or crunching rock riffs, just five groove filled songs with plenty of room for improvising.
The title track is a big-band jazzy tune with awesome solos all around, the shuffling percussion work and walking bass line really move the tune along making thirteen minutes fly by. "For Calvin" is a weird dissonantly arranged beast that could test your patience. I love the boogie-woogie keyboard break of "Cletus Awreetus Awrightus" and the quirky horn toot's and vocals near the end of the song are hilarious. "Eat That Question" incorporates a bit of blues into a loose-formed jam with some great keyboard and guitar work, and finally, "Blessed Relief" is a quiet, moving, intricate ballad that is the perfect closing song. What a wonderful jazz disc.
Free Music Review: Chuck Full O' Jazz
Hit: 4 Stars
this outing is very good. makes the big band sound swing. Frank tried to take this on the road but was forced to trim it down to smaller unit.Cleetus Alreets.. is a great song. I love it, although it sounds like it could be the theme song for a t.v. show in the 70's from time to time.. great stuff.
I do recall that this CD made it into a 100 greatest jazz recordings of all time... forget the author and the name of the book, but for grins and giggles I looked to see if this cd made it, and it did.
Free Music Review: Little Acknowledged Zappa Classic
Hit: 4 Stars
Perhaps it was only nostalgia that made me purchase this CD, but I've never forgotten its jazzy melodies. I especially enjoy "Blessed Relief" which takes me back to those musically experimental, latter days of high school (1972-74). I can count this album as one of a handful that formed the basis of my appreciation of jazz.Free Music Review: 3 stars and 1/2 is righter...another classic!!
Hit: 3 Stars
This is a jazz-fusion album,with a classical orientation, which is quite similar to that one of "Hot Rats",although it is a bit lighter in tone, despite of containing such odd instrumentation like horns and woodwinds...well these latter were not present within "Hot rats" and for this reason at last I prefer the present one (or anyway in some circumstances at least).The track "Eat That Question" is brilliant, but there are also other simply structured and remarkable songs. Sometimes this "Eat That Question" reminds me indeed of the memorable job at the electric piano and organ as well within some classic jazz albums, in the vein of George Duke;the whole job is filtered through a personal style of his own, thanks also to his wah-wah guitar-effect and some other strange tunes. The whole album is mostly instrumental, with a very few inspiring and less inspiring songs, such as "Blessed Relief", which concludes the album in a simplistic and easy listening manner , but it never minds... This work is recommended, even though it is not completely essential!!
Free Music Review: A bit overdeveloped
Hit: 3 Stars
3 1/2
Putting his instrumental arranging abilities to the test, Zappa proves he can safely be labeled the Mingus of rock, offering a chiefly voiceless, whirlwind fusion trip that is certainly not without compositional excess. I personally find the second side much more connectable then the first's show-offs which often do not necessarily lead anywhere with musical meaning. While it could have been a brilliant album from the brave anti-traditionalist icon, I will settle for startlingly good.