Jazz from Hell

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Jazz from Hell
Music album Template: Infobox music album / maintenance / type undetectedby Frank Zappa

Publication
(s)

November 1986

admission

1982-1986

Label (s) Barking Pumpkin Records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Electronic / avant-garde

Title (number)

8th

running time

34:33

occupation

production

Frank Zappa

Studio (s)

UMRK

chronology
Does Humor Belong In Music?
(1986) 		Jazz from Hell The Old Masters Box 2
(1987)

Jazz from Hell is a music album of mainly avant-garde instrumental music by Frank Zappa . The album, recorded almost entirely with the Synclavier , was awarded a Grammy .

Track list

All tracks are composed by Frank Zappa.

  1. Night School - 4:50
  2. The Beltway Bandits - 3:26
  3. While You Were Art II - 7:18
  4. Jazz from Hell - 3:00
  5. G-Spot Tornado - 3:17
  6. Damp Ankles - 3:45
  7. St. Etienne - 6:26
  8. Massaggio Galore - 2:31

Publications

The long-playing record was released on November 15 or January (sic!) 1986 in the USA on Barking Pumpkin Records , in Canada on Capitol Records ; worldwide it was distributed by EMI . The album was released on CD in April 1987 by Rykodisc (USA), EMI (Europe) and Vack (Asia).

reception

Rolling Stone Magazine's David Fricke saw Jazz from Hell as the most authoritative and accessible presentation of Zappa's understanding of popular music since his album Hot Rats .

The rock journalist Barry Miles criticized the fact that the drums repeat themselves mechanically, the rhythm of the pieces is "strange" like the "machine version of a singing saw". The long tones do not end and the vibrato failed. The piece Saint-Étienne , recorded live with musicians, contrasts enormously with this.

Ben Watson points out that the synthetically produced tones on Jazz from Hell sound more physical than on the earlier album The Perfect Stranger (1984). Zappa climbs to the top of the world's best “Futuro composers” list with Jazz from Hell. He sees the album as a “wonderful demonstration of Zappa's continued ability to compose melodies”. Zappa's “surrealist ear for sonority” makes a melody less of a sequence of notes on paper and more of a possibility to recognize the “social satirical energies” bound in what Zappa called the aromas of the instruments.

Kelly Fisher Lowe notes that the percussion heavy track Main Title from the album Uncle Meat (1969) was a forerunner of Jazz from Hell .

Although Jazz from Hell is a purely instrumental album, it was marked with a Parental Advisory sticker, a notice to warn parents about albums with offensive lyrics. This happened because of the song title G-Spot Tornado .

Zappa received a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist) for the album in 1988 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Román García Albertos: Jazz from Hell on globalia.net. Retrieved December 12, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Jazz from Hell, The Frank Zappa Album Versions Guide, the zappa patio . Retrieved December 12, 2010 .
  3. ↑ David Fricke: Frank Zappa. Jazz from Hell, Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 12, 2010 .
  4. ↑ a b Barry Miles : Zappa . Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweiausendeins, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8077-1010-8 , p.  395 .
  5. ↑ Mike Fish and Ben Watson: Frank Zappa on Disk, reprint of the article from The Wire , Vol. 91, September 1991. In: Richard Kostelanetz and John Rocco (eds.): The Frank Zappa companion: four decades of commentary . Schirmer Books, New York 1997, ISBN 0-02-864628-2 , page 143.
  6. ↑ a b Ben Watson: Frank Zappa. The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play . Quarted Books Ltd., London 1996, ISBN 0-7043-0242-X , pp. 468-472 .
  7. ↑ Kelly Fisher Lowe: The Words and Music of Frank Zappa. With a new introduction by the author , University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln and London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-6005-4 , page 66