Chester Englander is a big name in a small world: he is playing the cimbalom, a jumbo hammered dulcimer that resembles an ...

Orchestra 2001 will present “Zappa’s Radical Classical Roots” on Sunday, April 22 at World Café Live, and “Celebrating Frank Zappa’s The Yellow Shark” on Saturday, April 28 at the Fillmore.

In June of 1974, Frank Zappa and his rapturous band, the Mothers of Invention, invited a small audience to the their rehearsal hall on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, Calif. Together, they performed ...

When Diana Ross, the glittering soul siren of Motown, and Frank Zappa, the madcap maestro of musical anarchy, unveiled Soul Freak Symphony in March 1985 but was put in limbo due to contractual issues.

Sceptics! Neophytes! Zappa obsessives! Check out MOJO’s bespoke Frank Zappa mixtape – ditching the dirty gags (er, mostly) for hot grooves, hotter guitars and exquisite orchestrations... “Four ...

On the Mothers of Invention’s 1969 Uncle Meat, you can hear Frank Zappa exhort keyboardist Don Preston ... “Civilization and The Yellow Shark [his suite performed by the Ensemble Modern in ’92] are ...

An audience with Red Hot Chili Peppers on the final night of their One Hot Minute world tour Frank Zappa’s early departure from a series of performances by the Ensemble Modern of his The Yellow Shark ...

In her new memoir, 'Earth to Moon', the actress and author details her stormy relationship with her late parents, from beginning to end When rock legend Frank Zappa died in 1993 after a years-long ...

It must have been maddening for Frank Zappa to work with rock musicians ... of “G-Spot Tornado” appears on the 1993 album The Yellow Shark. The ensemble of humans performing this supposedly ...

He may like our music,” proclaimed Frank Zappa in 1967, on the eve of the release of the ... made up 1984’s album of the same name being a case in point), but The Yellow Shark isn’t one of them.