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When covering the works of a musician, composer, and arranger the magnitude of Frank Zappa, a group must realize that, inevitably, its interpretations will be compared against the original recordings of that artist. The Swedish Bohuslan Big Band gets most of the notes right, but the musicians don't take enough chances improvising during most of the tracks within this concert recording, so they end up sounding like any number of third-rate cover bands doing lukewarm imitations of Zappa's band. The biggest weaknesses include the awful vocals by Mia Kempff, who louses up the lyrics to "Find Her Finer" and is generally unfit to sing Zappa's works; the other is that Patrik Ehrnborg's guitar solos fall far short of the unique solos recorded first by Zappa on the same compositions. The instrumentals fare slightly better than the vocal interpretations, but they too suffer from a lack of risk-taking and serious improvisation. They would have been better off studying how groups such as the Ed Palermo Big Band and the Italian trio Harmonia added something fresh to their arrangements of Zappa's songs without destroying their appeal in the process, or sounding like fourth generation carbon copies.
© Ken Dryden /TiVo
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Frank Zappa, Composer - Bohuslän Big Band, MainArtist - Imogena AB, Producer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
Frank Zappa, Composer - Bohuslän Big Band, MainArtist - Imogena AB, Producer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
Frank Zappa, Composer - Bohuslän Big Band, MainArtist - Imogena AB, Producer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
Frank Zappa, Composer - Bohuslän Big Band, MainArtist - Imogena AB, Producer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
Frank Zappa, Composer - Bohuslän Big Band, MainArtist - Imogena AB, Producer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
Frank Zappa, Composer - Bohuslän Big Band, MainArtist - Imogena AB, Producer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
Frank Zappa, Composer - Bohuslän Big Band, MainArtist - Imogena AB, Producer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
Frank Zappa, Composer - Bohuslän Big Band, MainArtist - Imogena AB, Producer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
Frank Zappa, Composer - Bohuslän Big Band, MainArtist - Imogena AB, Producer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
Frank Zappa, Composer - Bohuslän Big Band, MainArtist - Imogena AB, Producer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
Frank Zappa, Composer - Bohuslän Big Band, MainArtist - Imogena AB, Producer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
Frank Zappa, Composer - Bohuslän Big Band, MainArtist - Imogena AB, Producer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
Album review
When covering the works of a musician, composer, and arranger the magnitude of Frank Zappa, a group must realize that, inevitably, its interpretations will be compared against the original recordings of that artist. The Swedish Bohuslan Big Band gets most of the notes right, but the musicians don't take enough chances improvising during most of the tracks within this concert recording, so they end up sounding like any number of third-rate cover bands doing lukewarm imitations of Zappa's band. The biggest weaknesses include the awful vocals by Mia Kempff, who louses up the lyrics to "Find Her Finer" and is generally unfit to sing Zappa's works; the other is that Patrik Ehrnborg's guitar solos fall far short of the unique solos recorded first by Zappa on the same compositions. The instrumentals fare slightly better than the vocal interpretations, but they too suffer from a lack of risk-taking and serious improvisation. They would have been better off studying how groups such as the Ed Palermo Big Band and the Italian trio Harmonia added something fresh to their arrangements of Zappa's songs without destroying their appeal in the process, or sounding like fourth generation carbon copies.
© Ken Dryden /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 01:07:18
- Main artists: Bohuslan Big Band
- Composer: Frank Zappa
- Label: Imogena
- Genre: Jazz Jazz Fusion & Jazz Rock
(C) 2000 Imogena AB (P) 2000 Imogena AB
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