The Grand Wazoo

~ Release by Frank Zappa (see all versions of this release, 14 available)

Tracklist

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#TitleRatingLength
1For Calvin (and His Next Two Hitch‐Hikers)
producer:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
arranger:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
recording of:
For Calvin (and His Next Two Hitch-Hikers)
lyricist and composer:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
6:06
2The Grand Wazoo
producer:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
bass:
Alex Dmochowski
brass:
Malcolm McNab, Ken Shroyer (trombonist) and Ernie Tack
drums (drum set):
Aynsley Dunbar
guitar:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
Minimoog:
Don Preston (piano/keyboards, member of Mothers of Invention)
percussion:
Alan Estes and Robert Zimmitti
solo guitar:
Tony Duran (slide guitarist) and Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
solo trombone:
Bill Byers
solo trumpet:
Sal Marquez
woodwind:
Mike Altschul, Earle Dumler (multi-instrumentalist), Fred Jackson (US R&B and jazz tenor saxophonist active 1940s-1960s), John Rotella (woodwind), Joanne Caldwell McNabb and Anthony Ortega (jazz saxophonist)
vocals:
Janet Neville-Ferguson Hof and Sal Marquez
arranger:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
instrumental recording of:
Think It Over
composer:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
413:21
3Cletus Awreetus‐Awrightus
producer:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
bass:
Alex Dmochowski
brass:
Sal Marquez
drums (drum set):
Aynsley Dunbar
guitar:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
keyboard:
George Duke
solo saxophone:
Ernie Watts (jazz and blues saxophonist)
trombone:
Ken Shroyer (trombonist)
woodwind:
Mike Altschul
vocals:
George Duke, Ilene Rappaport (Chunky) and Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
arranger:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
recording of:
Cletus Awreetus‐Awrightus
composer:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
2:57
4Eat That Question
producer:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
bass:
Alex Dmochowski
brass:
Sal Marquez
drums (drum set):
Aynsley Dunbar
gong:
Lee Clement
guitar and percussion:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
keyboard:
George Duke
woodwind:
Mike Altschul and Joel Peskin
arranger:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
recording of:
Eat That Question
composer:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
6:43
5Blessed Relief
bass:
Alex Dmochowski
brass:
Sal Marquez
drums (drum set):
Aynsley Dunbar
guitar:
Tony Duran (slide guitarist) and Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
keyboard:
George Duke
woodwind:
Mike Altschul and Joel Peskin
arranger:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
recording of:
Blessed Relief
composer:
Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
8:03

Credits

Release

manufactured in:Japan
United States
rights society:ASCAP (USA rights society; do not use this as a label or work publisher!)
manufactured by, distributed by and marketed by:Rykodisc
publisher:Munchkin Music
copyrighted (©) by:Rykodisc (in 1986)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Pumpko Industries, Ltd. (℗ copyright entity for recordings of Frank Zappa) (in 1972)
pressed by:PDO (US branch of Philips DuPont Optica)
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/release/30308855 [info]

Release group

inspired the name of artist:The Grand Wazoo
included in:The Old Masters, Box Three by Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
Threesome No. 2 (Hot Rats / Waka/Jawaka / The Grand Wazoo) by Frank Zappa (US musician, composer, activist & filmmaker)
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/master/53962 [info]
other databases:https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_mothers/the_grand_wazoo/ [info]
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5416 [info]
Allmusic:https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000192582 [info]
Wikidata:Q1581362 [info]