Slonimsky joins Zappa on-stage (audio)

Nicolas Slonimsky guests Frank Zappa on-stage for some piano improvisation on A Pound For A Brown, in Santa Monica, L.A, 1981-12-11. Soundboard recording.

Includes quotes from "Call To Post" and "Slonimsky's Minitude #51: Orion, Young At Heart"


Nicolas Slonimsky - piano

Frank Zappa - lead guitar, lead vocals, band leader
Ray White - rhythm guitar, vocals
Steve Vai - guitar, sitar
Tommy Mars - keyboards
Robert Martin - keyboards, tenor saxophone, vocals
Ed Mann - percussion
Scott Thunes - bass
Chad Wackerman - drums

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• Frank
• Zappa
• Nicolas
• Slonimsky
• Pound
• For
• Brown
• live
• improvisation
• bootleg

[tarantism]

his improvisation is amazing ... wow

[badazzpresidents23]

@cnmaster01 I personally find gregorian chants to be among the best vocal music i have ever heard, up there with doo-wop, spoken word (like brion gysin), funk/soul/r&b, Delta blues/gospel, anything by Captain Beefheart (especially 'Orange Claw Hammer' because, damn), flamenco, underground hip-hop, etc etc etc. If I hear my brother play 'uprising' by Muse again I might just have to gouge his eyes out and fill em with cyanide and happiness :)

[badazzpresidents23]

@SmartMusician Who is a good guitarist to you? and 12 notes only? Are you even taking into mind instruments that are toneless, or musique concrete or other tape music which relies more on frequencies and compositional ideas than a harmony and melody in the traditional sense?

[badazzpresidents23]

@SmartMusician You say there are only 12 notes, eh? What about Harry Partch, a composer who was so mictrotonal he employed a 43-tone scale into his music?

[badazzpresidents23]

@GreggaryPeccary One of the most interesting composers I have heard so far in my life is Harry Partch.

[badazzpresidents23]

@pizza351 Besides guitar music like Flamenco for example (which in my opinion is the absolute top-of-the-hill when it comes to technical accomplishment and pure passionate colorful beauty on the guitar), Zappa is the best guitarist I have ever heard, bar none, no competition whatsoever. Exhibit A? Two words; 'Treacherous Cretins.'

[badazzpresidents23]

I don't know about the rest of you, but after hearing that I could've died and been completely content about it.

[cnmaster01]

@Gerhardium I dunno, gregorian chant sounds way bleaker that anything dodecaphonic and minimalism in the right hands sounds downright happy

[cnmaster01]

@KeithWhalen11 that sounds awesome, how do I go about getting my hands on these