Ed Palermo Big Band Releases Tribute Album: Frank Zappa part of American songbook
Jazz is not dead – at least not when the Ed Palermo Big Band plays it. Part of the Cuneiform Contemporary Masters series, Eddy Loves Frank
Artist: Ed Palermo Big Band
Album: Eddy Loves Frank
Label: Cuneiform
Release Date: May 19th, 2009
A brilliantly original and entertaining big band jazz CD, Eddy Loves Frank shows that Zappa’s music has become assimilated into the American songbook. It also reveals that Zappa, as an American rock composer, deserves to be recognized with as much respect as America’s other revered popular music composers, including jazz composers such as Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Oliver Nelson, and popular song composers such as George Gershwin and Cole Porter. Despite the music’s complexity, Palermo’s incredibly skilled 18-piece band and three guest musicians play it with inspiration and apparent ease.
Palermo belongs to a tradition of visionary composers and arrangers who recognize hidden beauty and genius in an avant garde composer’s radical work, and create genius arrangements that serve to reveal that beauty to the public eye. Palermo has arranged almost 200 Zappa tunes. Performed by his inspired and tremendously skilled band, Palermo’s all instrumental, jazz arrangements of Zappa’s rock compositions bring Zappa’s music wider recognition, beyond the rock world, and elevate rock music’s status as ’serious’ composition, proving that serious and satirical can indeed coexist.
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