The Grand Wazoo
Occupation
- Frank Zappa - acoustic and electric guitar, percussion, vocal
- Mike Altschul - woodwind instruments
- Billy Byers - trombone
- Chunky ( Lauren Wood ) - Vocal
- Lee Clement - percussion
- George Duke - Keyboard, Vocals
- Earl Dumler - Woodwind Instruments
- Aynsley Dunbar - drums
- Tony Duran - guitar, slide guitar
- Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski ) - Bass
- Alan Estes - Percussion
- Janet Neville -Ferguson - Vocal
- Fred Jackson Jr. - Woodwind Instruments
- Joanne Caldwell McNabb - Vocal, brass and woodwind instruments
- Malcolm McNabb - trumpet, horn, trumpet D-
- Janet Neville -Ferguson - vocals
- Tony Ortega - Woodwind Instruments
- Joel Peskin - saxophone, woodwinds
- Don Preston - Mini Moog
- Johnny Rotella - woodwinds
- Ken Shroyer - trombone, brass instruments
- Ernie Tack - Brass
- Ernie Watts - tenor saxophone, tenor saxophone solo in C Cleetus Awreetus Awritus, woodwinds
- Robert Zimmitti - percussion
- Gerry Sack - "Phantom tambourine "
The Grand Wazoo is a jazz-rock album by Frank Zappa from the year 1972. Follows stylistic jazz rock albums Hot Rats in 1969 and Waka / Jawaka, which was published in the same year. It was also known as Hot Rats 3.
The album
With the previous album Waka / Jawaka (1972 ) began a new period, as Frank Zappa after the canceled tour 1971/72 - he fell from the stage - turned to composing. Despite his injury, Zappa undertook with his new Grand Wazoo formation 1972, a second tour with eight concerts, mainly in Europe. This formation initiated its name from the published album in the same year in which Zappa a large orchestra with musicians gathered, most of whom came from the jazz scene, as the saxophonist Anthony Ortega and Ernie Watts and trombonist Billy Byers; " He preferred [e ] this type of formation that allowed a rainbow musical [r ] shades [e ], infinitely more subtle and more developed than the limited group with which he usually works [e ] ," says his biographer Alain Dister 1975. In the blurb of the album made the band's leader, of " the imaginary and bizarre legend of the great Wazoo told, " about his attitude funny, " by speaking a lot crazier wish: he sees himself as emperor of some decadent ancient regime, the an army derives from 5000 different brass instruments ( air Force ), 5000 different percussionists ( artillery ), 5,000 musicians playing various electronic instruments (chemo psycho- biological weapons ) (...) Dadaist situation representation of the reality of the opportunities offered by Zappa music against the absurd, hatched from show business stuff to the dumbing down of the masses. " With this conceptual work Zappa joined his earlier productions Uncle Meat (1968 ) and 200 Motels ( 1971). This experiment, however, was short-lived: the musicians who had recorded this album, were different than those in 1972 went on tour; The band then experienced the onset of brothers Bruce and Tom Fowler, who participated Over -Nite Sensation on the following album.
Title list
Reception
The Grand Wazoo reached no placement on the Billboard 200 chart. The Anglist Kelly Fisher Lowe noted that the album documenting a compositional development Zappa. Generally, the album, like its predecessor, Waka / Jawaka was included more positive critical acclaim. Alain Dister highlighted the role of the drummer Aynsley Dunbar, who "by the band a very characteristic for the idioms of pop rhythmic pulsation [ gave ]. A strong beat, which drives each soloist and on which the whole rhythm structure of the group appears to be based "