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The Grand Wazoo[LP]
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers) |
2 | The Grand Wazoo |
Disc: 2
1 | Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus |
2 | Eat That Question |
3 | Blessed Relief |
Editorial Reviews
In 1972, Frank Zappa experimented with an "electric orchestra" concept which resulted in two albums: Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo. Celebrating the 50th-anniversary of this endeavor, The Grand Wazoo is available on 180-gram black vinyl LP.
Product details
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 12.32 x 12.28 x 0.24 inches; 10.4 ounces
- Manufacturer : Zappa Records
- Original Release Date : 2022
- Date First Available : October 21, 2022
- Label : Zappa Records
- ASIN : B0BHV35JRL
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #39,444 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #18,504 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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This is an album that I slip on for people who know little about Frank or don't like them. Once their ears perk up I let them know that they are digging on Zappa.
This review is on the 180G lp. Very quiet pressing and super flat.
As with his Mothers of Invention, the band on this record is large, and the playing just as skillful. These guys are professionals who know what they're doing, and they do it very well, jumping right out with Zappa's arresting material as any great jazz group, and it's really jazz or jazz-rock, but it's much more advanced harmonically than Chicago or another similar pop group of the time, so it may sound strange to some listeners used to more easy listening. Keep in mind that FZ is more interested in challenging your ears (like Charles Ives or Edward Varese) and he doesn't care if it's not commercial or popular, so he's more of a "classical" musician who happens to work with a mix of styles moving from pop, rock, jazz, to "classical," or whatever you want to call it. I don't think he made a sharp distinction when he wrote.
If you like this, try "King Kong" with Jean Luc Ponty, "Hot Rats," "The Perfect Stranger" with Pierre Boulez and Zappa, alternating at the helm, and the two records by Ensemble Modern on RCA. Some of these may be hard to find or out of print, but it's worth the search.
I'm lost for words when reviewing Frank's albums. I am not worthy. But one thing I DO want to say is: you can never predict Zappa and yet you can predict him. Does that make sense? Maybe not. Okay how about this? Expect the unexpected. No.. that still doesn't cut it either. What I mean to say is when you hear an album like The Grand Wazoo or Jazz From Hell or Orchestral Favorites, they take you by surprise and yet you're not too surprised because Frank is capable of just composing extraordinarily fantastic music and his musical ideas were light years ahead of anyone.
With The Grand Wazoo, you never really expect him to do a big band type thing and yet here it is. It is absolutely a necessary Zappa album in his vast discography. Frank was one of the pioneers of jazz fusion, even though he never claimed that title himself and people don't give him enough credit. With The Grand Wazoo he refined the jazz fusion subgenre. Eat That Question is worth the price of the entire album.
The 2012 remaster is fantastic. It reverts to the dry vinyl mix. Earlier CDs had digital reverb. The Grand Wazoo is one of my favourite of Frank's albums.
I have no idea, as a matter of fact, where the big band writing skills ever come from, since to get the sounds as you want, you have to have a very capable audition and there's only so many who can do that reasonably well. Take this with the possibility that Frank was indeed recovering from a quite bad accident and was a bit upset, and you can imagine that somewhere in the vaults there must surely be a lot of material that was recorded, or scripted, but didn't quite make his very high standards.
This collection is very nice, cheerful, and undoubtedly listenable. I could only really wish that there was more.
It doesn't seem to reveal much of the man who wrote the strange things earlier, but actually, it does after a few listenings, reveal some rather unorthodox ideas, but presented in quite a different way to anything else, even from the Hot Rats/Waka Jawaka set.
I wonder where this might all have headed if there had been the time.