Now touring with King Crimson offshoot Beat, the Bowie, Shatner and Hancock collaborator has long been confident that the ...

Seth MacFarlane has announced a new album of previously unreleased Frank Sinatra arrangements, titled ‘Lush Life.’ ...

The Courant’s arts picks for April 13-19 included a plethora of women artists, a night of doo-wop, early rock ‘n’ roll acts ...

When discussing the legacy of Frank Sinatra today, it’s rarely in relation to space ... only nominated for a handful of Grammys but also bagged the accolade for ‘Best Album Notes’. While it was also ...

Recreating those signature “peculiar sounds,” as Zappa calls them, required lugging around a massive rig — roughly the size ...

Frank Zappa, in a similar ... off-the-wall charm of a Zappa live album is captivating. He engages with his band and the audience, and delivers mind-blowing guitar solos in his signature ...

Is Frank Ocean teasing a comeback? A decade removed from his 2015 masterpiece Blonde, the R&B singer seems to be cryptically hinting at an upcoming album. The chatter is mostly focused on the ...

A titan of musical innovation and experimentation, Frank Zappa was ... opening track of his 1966 album Freak Out!. An odd composition, even for Zappa, ‘Hungry Freaks, Daddy’ opens with a typically ...

Can you recall your first emotional connection with the guitar ... Zappa nut.’ “There I was, all of a sudden, at sound check with George Duke and Chester Thompson; all my heroes. Frank ...

The veteran rocker recalls how Frank Zappa helped him get his first Les Paul – and also got him kicked out of Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – and discusses his recordings with Jeff Beck, which Rogers says ...

When Diana Ross, the glittering soul siren of Motown, and Frank Zappa, the madcap maestro of musical anarchy, unveiled Soul Freak Symphony in March 1985 but was put in limbo due to contractual issues.

Zappa was fulsome in his praise of Vai in a 1982 Guitar World interview ... The only thing that’s in the final mix of the album is the melody. Frank just sliced the melody off and put ...