THE ED PALERMO BIG BAND
''OH NO! NOT JAZZ!!, DISC TWO''
2014
110:31
DISC ONE (49:47)
1 Inca Roads 10:49
2 The Uncle Meat Variations 05:58
3 Little Umbrellas 04:42
4 The Dog Breath Variations 06:55
5 Chunga's Revenge 05:34
6 Lumpy Gravy 04:50
7 The Black Page #2 05:47
8 America Drinks and Goes Home 05:10
All Tracks By Frank Zappa
DISC TWO (60:44)
1 Moosh (David Leone) 06:09
2 Prelude to an Insult 03:46
3 Why is the Doctor Barking 05:47
4 Prelude to a Catastrophe 00:50
5 A Catastrophe (Is Just Around the Corner) 05:21
6 Let's Reproduce 05:21
7 An Escape Nonetheless 09:02
8 Nostalgia Revisited (for Susan) 06:24
9 The Insult 09:57
10 Good Night Everybody! God Love Ya! 05:29
11 She's So Heavy (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) 01:54
12 hidden track 00:38
Tracks By Palermo, Except 1, 11
Credits See Scans
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by Sean Westergaard
Ed Palermo has been leading his own big band for more than 25 years, an accomplishment all by itself. Prior to that he had performed or recorded with Aretha Franklin, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé, Lou Rawls, Melba Moore, Debbie Gibson, the Spinners, and many others. He has also written and arranged for The Tonight Show, Maurice Hines, and Eddy Fischer, and his arranging talents were singled out by master arranger Gil Evans: "I first heard Ed Palermo's music in a small club in the SoHo section of Manhattan. He was using the instrumentation of a traditional 'big band' yet his arrangements and songs were anything but that. When I thought the music was going a certain direction, it would suddenly turn a corner. Ed has the ability to keep that important balance between cohesiveness and unpredictability. Ed Palermo's music is alive and represents now."
Palermo has done arrangements of composers ranging from Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles to Shostakovich and Milhaud. However, he is probably best known for his arranging of the music of Frank Zappa for his big band, which has been performing the Zappa repertoire steadily for more than a decade. In 1997 he released the critically acclaimed The Ed Palermo Big Band Plays the Music of Frank Zappa on Astor Place, featuring the band with guest musicians Mike Stern and Mike Keneally. In July 2002, the Ed Palermo Band played at the Zappanale Festival in Bad Doberan, Germany, and a year later a Swedish version of the Ed Palermo Big Band performed at The Umeå Internationella Kammarmusik Festival in Sweden with guests Napoleon Murphy Brock and Keneally. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance, their second recording of Zappa material, was released in May of 2006. In addition to leading his big band, Palermo also arranged music for the one and only James Brown.
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''OH NO! NOT JAZZ!!, DISC TWO''
2014
110:31
DISC ONE (49:47)
1 Inca Roads 10:49
2 The Uncle Meat Variations 05:58
3 Little Umbrellas 04:42
4 The Dog Breath Variations 06:55
5 Chunga's Revenge 05:34
6 Lumpy Gravy 04:50
7 The Black Page #2 05:47
8 America Drinks and Goes Home 05:10
All Tracks By Frank Zappa
DISC TWO (60:44)
1 Moosh (David Leone) 06:09
2 Prelude to an Insult 03:46
3 Why is the Doctor Barking 05:47
4 Prelude to a Catastrophe 00:50
5 A Catastrophe (Is Just Around the Corner) 05:21
6 Let's Reproduce 05:21
7 An Escape Nonetheless 09:02
8 Nostalgia Revisited (for Susan) 06:24
9 The Insult 09:57
10 Good Night Everybody! God Love Ya! 05:29
11 She's So Heavy (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) 01:54
12 hidden track 00:38
Tracks By Palermo, Except 1, 11
Credits See Scans
BIOGRAPHY/AMG
by Sean Westergaard
Ed Palermo has been leading his own big band for more than 25 years, an accomplishment all by itself. Prior to that he had performed or recorded with Aretha Franklin, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé, Lou Rawls, Melba Moore, Debbie Gibson, the Spinners, and many others. He has also written and arranged for The Tonight Show, Maurice Hines, and Eddy Fischer, and his arranging talents were singled out by master arranger Gil Evans: "I first heard Ed Palermo's music in a small club in the SoHo section of Manhattan. He was using the instrumentation of a traditional 'big band' yet his arrangements and songs were anything but that. When I thought the music was going a certain direction, it would suddenly turn a corner. Ed has the ability to keep that important balance between cohesiveness and unpredictability. Ed Palermo's music is alive and represents now."
Palermo has done arrangements of composers ranging from Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles to Shostakovich and Milhaud. However, he is probably best known for his arranging of the music of Frank Zappa for his big band, which has been performing the Zappa repertoire steadily for more than a decade. In 1997 he released the critically acclaimed The Ed Palermo Big Band Plays the Music of Frank Zappa on Astor Place, featuring the band with guest musicians Mike Stern and Mike Keneally. In July 2002, the Ed Palermo Band played at the Zappanale Festival in Bad Doberan, Germany, and a year later a Swedish version of the Ed Palermo Big Band performed at The Umeå Internationella Kammarmusik Festival in Sweden with guests Napoleon Murphy Brock and Keneally. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance, their second recording of Zappa material, was released in May of 2006. In addition to leading his big band, Palermo also arranged music for the one and only James Brown.
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