[geeks] I really don't get it ...

[s at avoidant.org]

Jim Carver wrote:



> While a direct comparison b/t FZ and Marvin Gaye might be stretching it
> a bit... If you can find it, check out Jean-Luc Ponty's King Kong on
> Blue Note records. The whole album was composed by Frank. It really
> opens a lot of peoples eyes to his musical genius when they hear it.


Awesome album. I saw Frank Zappa conduct a symphony he composed at the 
Myserhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore about a million years ago (or 1991, 
maybe).

Insane musical genius. All of his work, really, but it's the "unusual" 
stuff like jazz and symphony that really brings it to peoples' attention.


---sambo