Frank Zappa - Waka Jawaka
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Free Music Review: truly inspirational
Hit: 5 Stars
This album got mixed reviews on release. But i love it. big swifty is a triumph. It has this irresistable groove running through it, a credit to the rhythm players. George Duke plays some of his best music here. There's great zappa guitar and horns. It's a sprawling epic. The tune itself is another zappa classic. Words don't do the music justice , get this! The two songs are very good songs. Your mouth has some great singing, and good guitar too. One shot deal is cool too. It has nice singing and a killer steel pedal guitar solo from pete kleinow sneaky pete. title tune is gorgeous. i played it to my friend, and he said to me 'dallas!' ie he thought it sounded like the tv theme. It has a lovely melody played by the horn players. Then a lovely trumpet solo, sal marquez. And then one of the greatest solos i've ever heard. It's by Don Preston on mini moog. Don Preston played with the original mothers of invention, and appeared in 200 motels too. I think this is his finest zappa moment. Hear it folks. Frank comes in at the end of don's solo, playing gloriously. Aynsley Dunbar gets to play a little solo, then we go back into the theme tune. There is more really beautiful music from the horn section, brilliant bass playing from alexander dmchowski (excuse my spelling al),and the tune wraps up with some bells ringing, like church bells . It's a glorious finale. 36 minutes of great music which i recommend strongly. Thank youFree Music Review: Fusion masterpiece....
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of FZ's best. It has 2 of his best instrumental tracks ever with Big Swifty and the title track. This is full blown jazz/rock fusion from our friend Frank. It was really popular at the time (Miles Davis was peaking around this time with his fusion), and Frank made some great contributions. I love Big Swifty, one of Zappa's greatest epics. Running a wonderful 17 1/2 minutes, it starts out with a great horn intro. The electric piano solo (by Don Preston) is really quite gentle and beautiful. It's done with a strange rhythm track in the background, giving it a beautiful but somewhat tense vibe. I love electric piano music. The title track is one of the most majestic songs Zappa ever did. It starts out like Big Swifty, but ends with a great flourish of trumpets, bells, and chimes. This album has some beautifully understated and gentle passages (especially during Preston's piano solo in Big Swifty), something Zappa wasn't really known for. The 2 songs with vocals, Your Mouth and It Might Just Be a One Shot Deal, are throwaways and nowhere as memorable as the instrumentals, but they're still worth a listen or two. Most of Frank's work is exemplary, and Waka/Jawaka is one of his best albums.Free Music Review: Brilliant
Hit: 5 Stars
I am listening to this CD as I write this review. I bought this CD when it first came out. I have lost count how many times I have played it. I never get tired of hearing this brilliant album. I have almost all of Zappa's CD's and this one together with "Hot Rats" and "Grand Wazoo" are my absolute favourites because he has allowed himself to concentrate on producing serious progressive music rather than his more comic and bizzare CD's. Don't get me wrong - I like almost all of Zappa's music - it is just that the above mentioned CD's really show us the genious that was Zappa. Like most of the other reviewers I agree with them that "Big Swifty" and "Waka Jawaka" are the most incredible tracks on the CD. I wont bother describing these tracks because words fail me. Let me say though, that I have lost count of the number of times on a Sunday afternoons I have cranked up the volume in my lounge room and have imitated all the instruments in the songs going from guitar to horn to trumpet and back again. I loose myself in his music. If you are a fan of creative, progressive, jazzy music then buy this CD - now!Free Music Review: Is This Phase I of The Grand Wazoo?
Hit: 5 Stars
I recently picked up Waka Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo at a Father's Day Mothers Sale. These two discs... wow! This is just great fusion music. There's very little humor and satire here - One Shot Deal has great vocals that are sort of weird and, get this, a pedal steel guitar! Just wonderful playing by quite an assortment of session musicians.
I also happen to be a huge Miles Davis fan. Many, many critics and listeners incorrectly credit Miles as the father of jazz-rock fusion. But to us regular folks, who might wear an occassional python boot or tennis shoe, we know this is not the case. Zappa invented jazz-rock fusion in 1965. Miles didn't find it until 1968 with Filles De Kilamanjaro.
But I digress... this is fusion music at its finest - not the Chick Corea Return to Forever kind of fusion where virtuosity is displayed for the sake of showing off. It's just really great music. Buy it.
I personally believe that Zappa's best years as a musician (rather than composer) started with Waka Jawaka and ended with One Size Fits All. Buy 'em all!
Free Music Review: waka's a cracker
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this not knowing what really to expect apart from it might be some sort of continuation from the legendary HOT RATS, the epic opener Big Swifty w/ its funky big band did seem to maintain this. It is a particularly excellent number, swooping off into outer spacey journey of sound then coming back down again. That takes up all of side 1 [the only FZ I have on cd is Freak out!], then Yr Mouth ...is yr religion, 1 of 2 shorter vocal tunes, alongside It Just Might Be A 1 Shot Deal, a very country-f[r]ied thing, it even lists bedsprings as an instrument in the credits. These vocal ones are mainly sort of easy listening & not really meant to be compared to Who Needs The Peace Corps? etc. [althoguh social satire will of course be found on some level]. The title track is also the finale, it goes for about 11 minutes & is very enjoyable/memorable but I think in the wrong hands/bands it could sound a bit pompous. Overall it's a fine addition to any record collection if not necessarily a desert islander. Probably should get more notice than it does.