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Zappa Burgstaller Murphy Brock Estrada Mae Lacey Babbitt Johann Hermann Schein Bach Meridian Arts Ensemble Kronos Quartet 1987 1988
jon nelson: trumpet josef burgstaller: trumpet daniel grabois: horn benjamin herrington: trombone raymond g. stewart: tuba john ferrari: drums su lian tan: rap 8 Band-members, Musicians and Performers on Them or Us Frank Zappa - guitar, keyboards, vocals, arranger, producer, main performer, assistant Tommy Mars - keyboards, vocals, soloist Patrick O'Hearn - wind, bass guitar Scott Thunes - vocals, Minimoog, synthesizer, bass guitar Johnny Guitar Watson - vocals, guitar Ray White - guitar, vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony vocals, harmony Moon Unit Zappa - vocals Ed Mann - percussion Chad Wackerman - drums, vocals Ike Willis - vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony vocals, harmony Arthur Barrow - bass guitar Napoleon Murphy Brock - saxophone, vocals, harmony vocals, harmony Brad Cole - piano Roy Estrada - vocals, backing vocals, choir, chorus, harmony, bass guitar Bob Harris - keyboards, vocals, harmony vocals Thana Harris - vocals, harmony Steve Vai - guitar, soloist, fills Dweezil Zappa - soloist, guitar George Duke - keyboards, vocals, piano Bobby Martin - keyboards, saxophone, vocals, falssetist, harmony vocals, harmonica For those who haven't heard: the Meridian Arts Ensemble is a very talented and innovative brass quintet, intent on expanding the repertoire, often commissioning new works. The MAE released an album called "Smart Went Crazy" which contains eleven or so minutes of FZ. This is a brass quintet with a drummer/percussionist added. The disk is 72 minutes long. (DDD) So... What are you waiting for? Log out and go find it! Comparison to the Kronos Quartet is inevitable, especially now that MAE has thrown their rendition of "Purple Haze" into the ring. Those of you searching for this tasty little morsel, keep looking. I found it at a local Tower Records under Misc Brass in the Classical section. The Zappa tunes are: Big Swifty, Harry, You're a Beast, The Orange County Lumber Truck, T'mershi Duween, and Dupree's Paradise. These are just the first 5 out of 20 cuts on the disk. It took me a while to hear the rest of the tunes on account of I had to play this delightful suite about six times before going on. It is GREAT! The following quote is from the liner notes: "On March 12,1993 the Meridian Arts Ensemble performed these pieces for Mr. Zappa at his home in Los Angeles. The composer worked with us by critiquing the performance, making corrections in the arrangements, and giving suggestions for further interpretations. We feel very fortunate to have worked with him, and to have received his support for our continuing to adapt his work for this ensemble." From: Raymond G. Stewart, tuba player of the Meridian Arts Ensemble The Meridian Arts Ensemble was formed in NYC in 1987 as a standard brass quintet chamber ensemble. In 1988, when Frank played at the Beacon we all were ignorant to his music. I think I had to run home (right past the theater) and watch Cagney and Lacey that night. I'm surprised at myself still because of any of the MAE members I had the most FZ background. I owned BONGO FURY on 8-track in high school and saw him on tour in the late seventies in my hometown of Carbondale, IL. I was a musician then and his music still just overwhelmed me, but I was more concerned about other things at that time anyway.... The members of MAE take great pleasure in bringing genres together. This also includes you, the listener. If we can turn on the blue-hair crowd to a rowsing set of FZ music and maybe some Babbitt, then we're halfway there. We also want the 818PUMPKIN-junkie to come to our concerts and perhaps discover the way Johann Hermann Schein's psalm settings influenced JS Bach, even though the two never met. We are not a band which plays the man's music exclusively. Never will be. Our FORMER manager wanted us to do this. It's not for us. We're also very "by the book" when asked to perform Frank's music. If it smells funny, we're gone. Gail is very helpful in this way. A few other people have really helped us out: Gary Titone, Rob Samler, John Scialli, Frans Goddijn. I'm sure Jon Nelson could add a few names to this list. To dispell a rumor, our next CD will not be all FZ. It will be recorded Feb '95 in Holland and probably contain Peaches en Regalia, Let's Make The Water Turn Black, Oh No, Igor's Boogie, Eat That Question, and Echidna's Arf (of you). We also took Run Home Slow/Little March, Little House I Used to Live In, and three versions of The Black Page on tour to Europe last summer.
Meridian Arts Ensemble Claude Debussy 1996 2007
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Witold Lutoslawski Harrington Meridian Arts Ensemble 2007
Meridian Arts Ensemble in Timosoara, Romania. November 2007. Jon Nelson - tpt 1 Tim Leopold - tpt 2 Dan Grabois - horn Ben Harrington - tbn Raymond Stewart - tuba
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