Zappa, Frank The Grand Wazoo Universal vinyl record Worldwide Shipping

Alternative Rock LP Repressed This 1972 album continues the mostly-instrumental, jazz-rock thread of Zappa’s work, which began with Hot Rats and continued with Waka / Jawaka. It’s a big-band setting this time, with lots of improvisation, with big brass, woodwind and percussion sections. Sal marquez, in particular, shines on trumpet. Zappa-philes will also recognize names like Aynsley Dunbar, Don Preston and George Duke. The five lengthy tracks include the witty ‘Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus,’ the intricate title track, the rock-edged ‘For Calvin (and his Next Two Hitch-Hikers)’, and the more lyrical ‘Blessed Relief.’
The Grand Wazoo is the eighth album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers. It was the second album Zappa had to record in a wheelchair following an on-stage assault in 1971, and it found the psychedelic jazz rock fusionist expanding his musical stamp with a bigger band dynamic. The music on the album is largely instrumental, following on from Hot Rats, Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Waka/Jawaka as another bold, bonkers excursion into the furrows of Zappa’s highly creative mind. It’s been some time since this gem was in print, and it’s now comfortably resting into the chunky grooves of an 180 gm pressing, no less.