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11. Zappa was a rock star, yet he was also a composer of contemporary
music, influenced by Stravinsky. How did you perceive Zappa’s two sides
back when you have played his music on King Kong album and later
when you have toured with him. How would you comment Zappa’s musical
idiom from an aesthetic standpoint?
Interesting how some of the most daring musicians grew up in California,
like Mingus, Ornette Coleman and Frank Zappa. Perhaps because they grew up
without the walls that tradition can impose in the mind of musicians
growing up elsewhere. Zappa was practically self-taught, had he grown up
in Europe or New York I imagine that he might have studied classical
composition and never become a rock musician. When we played together
it was difficult for him to place too much instrumental music in his
shows, the majority of his audience came for the satiric songs and
it appeared to me that he was prisoner of his freaky rocker image and
losing his audience with intricate instrumentals.
However he was able to realize his dream when he was accepted
as a respected composer in the classical world years later,
not bad for an autodidact.
Some of his pieces were a total musical patchwork; a few measures of
basic rock suddenly moving into jazz then into a Stravinsky like
written section. He was a true pioneer of fusion but I preferred
his pieces that were in one style from start to finish,
some were very inventive, intricate yet melodic.
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music, influenced by Stravinsky. How did you perceive Zappa’s two sides
back when you have played his music on King Kong album and later
when you have toured with him. How would you comment Zappa’s musical
idiom from an aesthetic standpoint?
Interesting how some of the most daring musicians grew up in California,
like Mingus, Ornette Coleman and Frank Zappa. Perhaps because they grew up
without the walls that tradition can impose in the mind of musicians
growing up elsewhere. Zappa was practically self-taught, had he grown up
in Europe or New York I imagine that he might have studied classical
composition and never become a rock musician. When we played together
it was difficult for him to place too much instrumental music in his
shows, the majority of his audience came for the satiric songs and
it appeared to me that he was prisoner of his freaky rocker image and
losing his audience with intricate instrumentals.
However he was able to realize his dream when he was accepted
as a respected composer in the classical world years later,
not bad for an autodidact.
Some of his pieces were a total musical patchwork; a few measures of
basic rock suddenly moving into jazz then into a Stravinsky like
written section. He was a true pioneer of fusion but I preferred
his pieces that were in one style from start to finish,
some were very inventive, intricate yet melodic.
ttp://www.muzicisifaze.com/alt_articol.php?id=28
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