The big brass band that Frank Zappa briefly took on the road in 1972, just before the release of his instrumental LP “The Grand Wazoo”, was an army of twenty out for serious business.
"Nobody sings," Zappa wrote at the time. "Nobody dances. They just play music."
They didn't do it often enough. This two-CD set, “Wazoo” (2007), the whole of a previously unissued concert in Boston, combines the complex, blaring tension of Zappa's written scores and round robins of directed improvisation, with Zappa soloing on guitar with unusual, groovin' restraint in "The Grand Wazoo (Think It Over)." "Big Swifty," from 1972's Waka/Jawaka, opens with dervish woodwinds and elephant-stampede trombones, then hits and stays in high flash-your-chops gear. There is also a half-hour of the oratorio "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" minus vocals, a plus that emphasizes the will and imagination of Zappa's composing and the fearlessness of the hot cats under his baton.



Frank Zappa

Wazoo

(September 24, 1972 at the Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts)

2007




2CDs / 2007 / VBR-V0


Track List:

CD 1:

01. Intro Intros

02. The Grand Wazoo (Think It Over)

03. Approximate

04. Big Swifty


CD 2:

01. Ulterior Motive

02. The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary Movement I

03. Movement II

04. Movement III

05. Movement IV - The New Brown Clouds

06. Penis Dimension

07. Variant I Processional March



Frank Zappa

Wazoo

(September 24, 1972 at the Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts)

2007