Uno dei più geniali e tenaci interpreti delle musiche di Frank Zappa, Ed Palermo, propone a Marlboro (New York) stasera per la festa di Halloween uno spettacolo a tema nella più pura tradizione zappiana (ma in scaletta c'è anche parecchio di Todd Rundgren): Zweeney Zodd-The Demon Barber of Marlboro. Si dovrebbe poterlo seguire anche da qui, in streaming presso Concert Window.
Delle più recenti attività della Ed Palermo Big Band - anche con ospite Napoleon Murphy Brock - si trova ampia documentazione alla pagina YouTube di Raymond Morelli.

https://m.facebook.com/palermobigband
www.palermobigband.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/masterninja01/search?query=palermo

Per i venticinque anni del festival Zappanale - appuntamento comunitario d'obbligo per ogni buon zappiano, ogni estate a Bad Doberan (Germania) - la benemerita associazione promotrice Arf Society ha prodotto un fantastico volume celebrativo dal titolo We Are The Other People (con l'avvertenza: 'a book about people who like stuff that is not normal'). Quasi cinquecento pagine zeppe di documenti e materiali curati da organizzatori e musicisti, storie e immagini raccolte sul palco e tra il pubblico, commenti e dediche di ospiti e diretti protagonisti, con ampio spazio per ricordi, aneddoti, curiosità e memorabilia. Da non perdere!

In celebration of the 25th Zappanale the ARF Society e.V. announces a colorful new large format book chronicling the history of the festival with over 1000 photos on 500 pages. Dieter Jakob, Robert Riedt and Burkhard Schempp delved deep into the roots of the Zappanale. How did the festival get its start? How has it developed since? Where is it today? And as the book‘s title reminds us, it's also about the people who come to the Zappanale.
With a foreword from Frank Zappa's sister Candy, the book includes contributions and congratulations from Joe Trump, Caballero Reynaldo, Fried Dähn, Morgan Agren, Essra Mohawk, Jean-Luc Ponty, Sandro Oliva, Paul Carr, Umezu Kazetoki, Doctor Nerve, Mani Neumeier, Chris Opperman, Co de Kloet, Terry Bozzio, Pierre-Jean Gaucher, Gary Lucas, Albert Wing, Ed Mann, Ray White, Robert Martin, Tom Fowler, Don Preston, Adrian Belew, Denny Walley, Roddie Gillard, Brot + Böller, Daevid Allen, Ed Palermo, Jono El Grande, Jim Cohen, Daniel Schröder, Harald Koob, Steve Hillage, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Ben Watson, André Cholomondeley, Daniel Rohr, Hakan Engborg, and Ali N. Askin.

http://www.arf-society.de

http://www.zappanale.de

http://tinyurl.com/ln2sn7z

Con tutto il bene che si può volere ai King Crimson d'epoca 1972-1974, dopo le collezioni di Larks' Tongues in Aspic e The Road to Red era proprio necessario un altro mega-box - tra cd, dvd-a e blu-ray stavolta i dischi sono 27! - come Starless? Nel dubbio, consultare John Kelman: "On the Larks' Tongues Box, a nascent quintet was still finding its way with a largely new book of music; by the time of The Road to Red, the remaining quartet had become a well-oiled, thundering machine, and one that took risks night after night, to be sure - its pure improvisational forays a characteristic that differentiated it from so many of its peers at the time - but which had also, by then, found what Fripp has often described as "a way of doing things." Starless provides the opportunity to hear how the group got there, from early versions of tunes that were significantly longer to germinal performances of songs where the lyrics were continually being fine-tuned and arrangements adjusted. In a nutshell, Starless completes the story of Crimson's until-now most heralded incarnation, bridging the gap between Larks' Tongues in Aspic and The Road to Red with the performances that led up to and then followed the release of Starless and Bible Black on March 29, 1974. For those interested in this King Crimson incarnation, it's an essential piece of the puzzle that is all the better for it by also sporting the most consistently excellent sound of any live Crimson box to date."

http://www.dgmlive.com

http://shop.schizoidshop.com/king-crimson--starless--limited-edition-boxed-set-p1418.aspx

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/king-crimson-starless-live-in-europe-by-john-kelman.php