Chitarristi · 1940–1993
Frank Zappa
Chitarrista, compositore e arrangiatore statunitense (1940-1993)
- Nascita
- 21 dicembre 1940
Baltimora - Morte
- 4 dicembre 1993
Laurel Canyon - Paese
- Stati Uniti
- Attività
- 1955–1993
- Etichette
- Verve Records, Warner Bros. Records, Rykodisc, DiscReet, Zappa Records
- Discografia
- 208 album
Biografia
Frank Zappa è stato un musicista jazz (chitarra, batteria, chitarra basso e strumento a percussione). Nato il 21 dicembre 1940 a Baltimora, morto il 4 dicembre 1993 a Laurel Canyon. Lo stile è di solito associato a jazz, fusion e rock. Etichette: Verve Records, Warner Bros. Records, Rykodisc e DiscReet. La discografia qui comprende 208 album, da «The Boy Wonder Session Tapes» (1966) a «Zappa ’66, Vol. 1: Live at TTG Studios» (2026). Tra i riconoscimenti: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995) e Grammy Award alla carriera (1997).
Frank Vincent Zappa (Baltimora, 21 dicembre 1940 – Los Angeles, 4 dicembre 1993) è stato un compositore, chitarrista, cantante e polistrumentista statunitense. È considerato uno dei musicisti più innovativi e poliedrici del novecento. La sua discografia, composta da più di sessanta album pubblicati in vita e altrettanti postumi, costituisce un vastissimo repertorio, con influenze stilistiche che toccano diversi generi musicali quali rock, blues, jazz, fusion, progressive, avanguardia, riferimenti alla musica classica, satira e cabaret.
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Discografia
Album in studio e dal vivo
The Boy Wonder Session Tapes
1966
Lumpy Gravy
1967 · Capitol Records
Lumpy Gravy
1968 · Verve
Hot Rats
1969 · Reprise Records
Chunga’s Revenge
1970 · Bizarre
200 Motels
1971 · United Artists Records GmbH
Fillmore East, June 1971
1971 · Live · Reprise Records
Frank Zappa and Hot Rats at the Olympic
1971 · Live
Waka/Jawaka
1972 · Reprise Records
Apostrophe (’)
1974 · DiscReet
Roxy & Elsewhere
1974 · Live · DiscReet
10/24/75 Providence, RI
1975 · Live
Bongo Fury
1975 · Live · DiscReet
One Size Fits All
1975 · Discreet Records
Zoot Allures
1976 · Warner Bros. Records
Titties and Beer
1977
Zappa in New York
1977 · Live · DiscReet
1978-02-15: Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany
1978 · Live
Project-Object
1978 · Live
Rubber Slices
1978
Saarbrücken 1978
1978 · Live
Studio Tan
1978 · DiscReet
Joe’s Garage: Act I
1979 · CBS
Joe’s Garage: Acts II & III
1979 · CBS
Orchestral Favorites
1979 · DiscReet
Sheik Yerbouti
1979 · CBS
Sleep Dirt
1979 · DiscReet
Vitamin Deficiency
1979 · Live
Warts and All
1979
Crush All Boxes
1980 · Live
At the Circus
1981 · Live · FOO-EEE Records
Remington Electric Razor
1981 · Live
Return of the Son of Shut Up ’n Play Yer Guitar
1981 · Barking Pumpkin Records
Shut Up ’n Play Yer Guitar
1981 · Barking Pumpkin Records
Shut Up ’n Play Yer Guitar Some More
1981 · Barking Pumpkin Records
Tinsel Town Rebellion
1981 · Live
You Are What You Is
1981 · Barking Pumpkin Records
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
1982 · EMI
Baby Snakes
1983 · Live
London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I
1983 · Barking Pumpkin Records
The Man From Utopia
1983 · Barking Pumpkin Records
1984-09-14: Fits Your 34B, No Matter Which 43B You Are: Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden
1984 · Live
1984-12-06: Civic Center Music Hall, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
1984 · Live
Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger
1984 · EMI
FZ 1984 Tour: Big Mother Is Watching You
1984 · Live
Francesco Zappa
1984
Son of Serious Music
1984
Them or Us
1984 · EMI
Thing‐Fish
1984 · Barking Pumpkin Records
Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention
1985
Resolver + Brutality
1985
Does Humor Belong in Music?
1986 · Live
Jazz From Hell
1986 · EMI
Blood on the Canvas
1987
London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. II
1987 · Barking Pumpkin Records
Miami Matinée, Vol. I
1987
Miami Matinée, Vol. II
1987
1988‐02‐23: Live Poughkeepsie
1988 · Live
Broadway the Hard Way
1988 · Live
Guitar
1988 · Live
Live – Over 20 Years Old
1988 · Live
The Day The Earth Stood Still
1988 · Live
You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1
1988 · Live
You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2
1988 · Live
Live USA
1989 · Live
Trick or Treat
1989 · Live
You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3
1989 · Live
For Sharleena
1990 · Live
Pig's'n' Repugnant
1990 · Live
1980-05-24: Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1991 · Live
All You Need Is Glove
1991 · Live
Anyway the Wind Blows
1991 · Live
As An Am
1991 · Live
Freaks & Motherfu*#@%!
1991 · Live
Make a Jazz Noise Here
1991 · Live
Piquantique – Stockholm 1973
1991 · Live
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life
1991 · Live
Unmitigated Audacity
1991 · Live
You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4
1991 · Live
1984-09-01: Kreega Bondola: Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, Saratoga, NY, USA
1992 · Live
Beat the Boots! II
1992 · Live
Conceptual Continuity
1992 · Live
Disconnected Synapses
1992 · Live
Donna You Wanna
1992
Electric Aunt Jemima
1992 · Live
Little House I Used to Live In
1992 · Live
Our Man in Nirvana
1992 · Live
Playground Psychotics
1992 · Live
Tengo Na’ Minchia Tanta
1992 · Live
You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5
1992 · Live
You Can’t Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6
1992 · Live
Cuccurullo Brillo Brullo
1993 · Live
The Yellow Shark
1993 · Live
Zappa’s Universe
1993 · Live
Civilization Phaze III
1994 · Zappa Records
Zappa / Lutosławski / Lupone / Pärt
1994
Just Another Live Album
1995
Läther
1996 · Rykodisc
Everything Is Healing Nicely
1999
FZ:OZ
2002 · Live
Happy Halloween 1978
2002 · Live
Howdy Austin
2002
Wanna Buy Some Acid?
2002 · Live
Chalk Pie
2003
Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa: Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions
2003 · Live
Halloween
2003 · Live
The Lost Solos
2003
Bubble Cream Cheese
2004
Joe's Domage
2004 · VAULTernative Records
The Dub Room Special!
2005 · Live
1969-10-25: Let's Be Frank: Festival Actuel, Mont de l'enclus, Amougies, Belgium
2006 · Live
Imaginary Diseases
2006 · Live
Trance-Fusion
2006 · Live
Buffalo
2007 · Live
Wazoo
2007 · Live
Zappa in Barcelona
2007 · Live
An Evening With Frank Zappa During Which… The Torture Never Stops
2008 · Live
Joe’s Menage
2008 · Live
Philly ’76
2009 · Live
Greasy Love Songs
2010 · Zappa Records
Hammersmith Odeon
2010 · Live
Joe's Demoge
2010
“Congress Shall Make No Law…”
2010 · Zappa Records
Carnegie Hall
2011 · Live
Feeding the Monkies at Ma Maison
2011 · Zappa Records
Halloween 1981
2012
Road Tapes, Venue #1
2012 · Live
A Token of His Extreme
2013 · Live
Road Tapes, Venue #2
2013 · Live
Joe’s Camouflage
2014 · VAULTernative Records
Providence College, Rhode Island, April 26th 1975
2014 · Live
Puttin’ on the Ritz
2014 · Live
Roxy by Proxy
2014 · Live
200 Motels: The Suites
2015 · Live
Central Park, New York, August 3rd, 1968 (Doxy collection, remastered, live on FM broadcasting)
2015 · Live
Dance Me This
2015 · Universal
Roxy the Movie
2015 · Live
The Muffin Man Goes to College
2015 · Live
Chicago ’78
2016 · Live
Little Dots
2016 · Live
Live at the “Piknik” Show in Uddel, NL June 18th, 1970
2016
Road Tapes, Venue #3
2016 · Live
The Rare Tapes Broadcast (Garden City, New York 31 December 1974)
2016
Bacon Fat – Live at the Rockpile ’69
2017 · Live
Halloween 77
2017 · Live
Nasty Rats – Live at the Palladium, New York 1981
2017 · Live
Zoot Alors!
2017
1977-10-31: The Palladium, New York, NY, USA
2018 · Live
Live: Fillmore West, San Francisco 6 Nov 1970
2018 · Live
The Roxy Performances
2018 · Live
Austin 1973
2019 · Live
Back to School
2019 · Live
Halloween 73
2019 · Live
Halloween 73 Highlights
2019 · Live
Live Broadcast – Wed 1 October 1975 War Memorial Gym, Vancouver Canada
2019 · Live
O’ Fair New Mexico! (live 1980)
2019 · Live
The Rehearsal Broadcast
2019 · Live
Under the Covers (The Songs He Didn’t Write)
2019 · Live
Halloween 81
2020 · Live
Halloween 81 Highlights
2020 · Live
The Mothers 1970
2020 · Live
Zappa Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2020 · Zappa Records
The Michigan Muffin Man (Detroit broadcast 1976)
2021
Zappa ’88: The Last U.S. Show
2021 · Live
Igor's Boogie
2022 · Live
Live on Air Tonight
2022 · Live
Live… New York 1984
2022
The Mothers 1971
2022 · Live
Zappa ’75: Zagreb/Ljubljana
2022 · Live
Zappa/Erie
2022 · Live
Funky Nothingness
2023 · Frank Zappa Catalog
Live in Berlin 1978
2023 · Live
Live… Buffalo, N.Y. 1974
2023 · Live
Philosophy That Turns Away (live)
2023 · Live
Zappa ’80: Mudd Club/Munich
2023 · Live
Whisky a Go Go, 1968
2024 · Live
Cheaper Than Cheep
2025 · Live
Halloween 78: Live at the Palladium, New York
2025 · Live
Python Boot (Buffalo '74 WNEW broadcast)
2025 · Live
Zappa ’66, Vol. 1: Live at TTG Studios
2026 · Live
1971-11-27: Live in Amsterdam: Amsterdam, Netherlands
· Live
1973-05-19: Great McGonigle's Seaside Park, Annapolis, MD, USA
· Live
1974-02-16: Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA, USA
· Live
1974-11-26: Pershing Municipal Auditorium, Lincoln, NE, USA
· Live
1974‐07‐17: Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix, AZ, USA
· Live
1975-04-27: No Bacon for Breakfast, Music Hall, Boston, MA, USA
· Live
1975-10-29: Waterbury, CT, USA
· Live
1976-10-24: Boston Tea Party: Music Hall, Boston, MA, USA
· Live
1976-10-24: Music Hall, Boston, MA, USA
· Live
1976-10-24: Zoot Allures Live: Music Hall, Boston, MA, USA (early show)
· Live
1977-09-23: Assembly Hall, University Of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA
· Live
1978-02-07: Nouvel Hippodrome, Paris, France
· Live
1978-02-15: Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany, Part 1
· Live
1978-09-21: Mid Hudson Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
· Live
1978-09-21: Mid Hudson Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
· Live
1979-02-12: Apollo Theater, Manchester, England, UK
· Live
1979-02-14: Apollo Theater, Glasgow, UK
· Live
1980-11-26: Masonic Auditorium, Detroit, MI, USA
· Live
1980-11-26: Masonic Auditorium, Detroit, MI, USA
· Live
1981-12-06: Events Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
· Live
1982-06-11: Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
· Live
1984-07-22: The Palace, Los Angeles, CA, USA
· Live
1984-08-22: Vogue Theater, Indianapolis, IN, USA
· Live
1984-09-01: Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, Saratoga, NY, USA
· Live
1988-04-29: Ishallen, Helsinki, Finland
· Live
1988-05-01: Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden
· Live
1988-05-06: Congress Centrum Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
· Live
Riviera Festival 1970
· Live
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Domande frequenti
Che strumento suonava Frank Zappa?
Frank Zappa è noto per chitarra, batteria, chitarra basso e strumento a percussione.
Quando e dove è nato Frank Zappa?
Frank Zappa è nato 21 dicembre 1940 a Baltimora.
Quali sono gli album più noti di Frank Zappa?
Nel nostro archivio ci sono, tra gli altri, Lumpy Gravy (1967), Hot Rats (1969), Chunga’s Revenge (1970), 200 Motels (1971) e Fillmore East, June 1971 (1971).
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