| Gleen Ferris New CD and other things from France [message #262634] |
Sa, 06 Mai 2006 11:21 |
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Glenn Ferris New Cd > Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny !
http://zapinfrance.free.fr/Coupdecoeur.htm
Inside this site you can read an exclusive interview <( in french -
sorry)
of Belgian jazz-group Wrong Object's guitarist.
>follow French Powered N#4 link ...
http://zapinfrance.free.fr/
cheers
ZiF webmaster
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| Re: Gleen Ferris New CD and other things from France [message #265468 ] |
Mo, 08 Mai 2006 22:05 |
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In article <1146907267.442083.211100 [at] g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"Zappa In France" <zapinfrance [at] free.fr> wrote:
> Glenn Ferris New Cd > Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny !
> http://zapinfrance.free.fr/Coupdecoeur.htm
The booklet of the Glenn Ferris Pentessence Quintet's new CD X-Actimo!
mentions FZ at some length (if not with total accuracy):
> Hearing about [Glenn Ferris's] passion for [rock music], George Duke,
> pianist with the Don Ellis Big Band, introduced him in early 1972 to
> the prodigious Frank Zappa. Lightning struck, love at first sight and
> Frank recruited him for his recently formed jazz-rock orchestra, the
> Grand Wazoo Big Band.
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> Glenn scrutinized Zappa at the full height of his considerable
> powers, taking on board his methodical rigour, his ability to react
> to every instrument, observing his complete omniscience down to the
> shortest solo. Ferris played concert after concert, first with the
> Grand Wazoo then with the on-stage adventure that was the '72 tour of
> The Mothers of Invention (aka The Petit Wazoo), the other Zappa
> outfit. Almost 34 years later, a CD entitled: Imaginary Diseases is
> set to hit our racks in 2006, a compilation of the highlights of that
> memorable 1972 Tour, mixed, produced and edited by Zappa just before
> he was whisked away in an ironically mean gesture by the Grim Reaper
> in December 1993 at the age of 53.
--Charles
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