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Captain Beefheart
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Avant-garde rock legend and visual artist Don Van Vliet, who performed under the name Captain Beefheart, began experimenting with eccentric rock’n'roll sounds in the mid-1960s. His first two releases with the Magic Band drew positive notice from some connoisseurs but failed to connect with the wider public.
Van Vliet next forged a close creative partnership with Frank Zappa, a former high school classmate, who signed Beefheart to his Straight Records and produced 1969′s Trout Mask Replica. While the bizarre double album was not a major commercial success, it quickly became a cultural landmark.
Record Store Day 2026 Additional Releases
by Kyle Simpler
While jazz releases are always a highlight of Record Store Day, the event's massive lists inevitably spill far beyond any single genre. With hundreds of titles announced each year, it quickly becomes clear that no guide can cover everything. The following selections step slightly outside the jazz category, but they still feel at home in a ...
One Size Fits All 50th Anniversary Edition
By Frank Zappa
Label: Zappa Records
Released: 2025
Track listing:
CD 1:
Inca Roads; Can't Afford No Shoes; Sofa No. 1; Po-Jama People; Florentine Pogen; Evelyn, A Modified Dog; San Ber'dino; Andy; Sofa No. 2; Inca Roads – Rough Mix; Ralph Stuffs His Shoes – “Token” Outtake; Ralph Stuffs His Shoes – Basic Tracks, Take 5; Ralph Stuffs His Shoes – Instrumental Mix, Master Take; Can’t Afford No Shoes – Rough Mix; Sofa No. 1 – Basic Tracks, Take 6; Sofa No. 1 – Master Take, Early Mix.
CD 2:
Po-Jama People – Old Mix; Florentine Pogen – Rough Mix; Florentine Pogen – Alternate Solo; Evelyn, A Modified Dog – Session Outtakes; Bitch, Bitch, Bitch – In Rehearsal; Bitch, Bitch, Bitch – Basic Tracks, Take 1; San Ber’dino – Rough Mix I; San Ber’dino – Rough Mix II; San Ber’dino – Rough Mix III; Something/Anything – Rough Mix; Andy – Rough Mix; Sofa No. 2 – Rough Mix.
CD 3:
Live In Rotterdam, 28/9/1974: Tush Tush Tush (A Token Of My Extreme); Stink-Foot; Inca Roads; Approximate; Cosmik Debris; Florentine Pogen; Montana; RDNZL.
CD 4:
Live In Rotterdam, 28/9/1974 + bonus live tracks: Dupree’s Paradise Intro; Blind Mice Blues; Dupree’s Paradise – Part 1; Dupree’s Paradise – Part 2; Pygmy Twylyte; Room Service; Tush Tush Tush (End Vamp); Ralph Stuffs His Shoes – Live in Gothenburg, Sweden, 25/9/1974; Po-Jama People – Live in Gothenburg, Sweden, 25/9/1974.
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention: Whisky A Go Go 1968
by Mario Calvitti
Lo sfruttamento dell'immenso, e apparentemente inesauribile, archivio zappiano procede al ritmo di 3-4 pubblicazioni all'anno, alternando riedizioni di album storici (le “50th anniversary edition" arricchite di nuovi contenuti) e dischi contenenti materiale inedito dal vivo o in studio, recuperato tra gli innumerevoli nastri accumulati da Frank Zappa durante gli anni di attività. Questa ...
Guitar Forms 2024
by Jerome Wilson
These are a few recent releases where guitars have a featured role. Jeanfrancois Prins Blue Note Mode GAM Records 2024 Guitarist Jeanfrancois Prins is from Belgium but his music comes straight out of the American jazz tradition. He recorded this album at the legendary Rudy Van Gelder studio ...
Funky Nothingness
by Mario Calvitti
A quasi trent'anni dalla scomparsa e dopo il passaggio dell'intero catalogo alla Universal, prosegue al ritmo di quattro titoli all'anno la pubblicazione di album inediti di Frank Zappa. Dopo l'uscita di Mudd Club/Munich 1980, album francamente non imprescindibile a meno di essere appassionati del periodo centrato sull'album Sheik Yerbouti, ma comunque gratificato da numerosi eccellenti assoli ...
Sun Ra: Lanquidity (2 x CD Edition)
by Chris May
When it comes to Sun Ra, the elephant in the room--or perhaps the intergalactic space frigate orbiting your sound system--is how many musicians in the band were bombed out on acid during a typical recording session? By all accounts, Ra ran a tight spaceship and drugs, mind expanding or numbing, were strictly off limits. Then again, ...
Dave Sewelson: Smooth FreeJazz
by Mark Corroto
If you're a lover of adventurous music, you've certainly had the following experience. You take a seat in a coffee house or even worse in your dentist's chair and out of the speakers flows (stifle your tears) smooth jazz. You might welcome the John Cage—ian sound of the espresso frothier or the Merzbow noise of the ...
Bob Gorry: GoBruCcio
by Kyle Simpler
Jerry Garcia once tried to explain the Grateful Dead's appeal by comparing them to licorice. He pointed out that not everybody likes licorice, but the people who do “really like licorice." The same principle could easily apply to free jazz. There's a unique appeal to free improvisation that some listeners embrace, while others might quickly turn ...
Live From Café De Loge, Bar Lume And The Missy Sippy Blues & Roots Club
by Martin Longley
Wolf Vanwymeersch Café De Loge Gent, Belgium July 14, 2021 Towards the end of the Gent Jazz festival, there's an intersection with the usually much bigger Gentse Feesten street celebration. In July 2021, this hedonistic explosion was defused, but several venues presented intimate shows on the same dates, ...
