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Jazz is not dead – at least when Ed Palermo Big Band playing. Album which became part of Cuneiform series ‘Contemporary Masters’, ‘Eddy Loves Frank’ is the third album featuring the music of Frank Zappa who arrange by Ed Palermo and was played by Ed Palermo Big Band.

‘Eddy Loves Frank’ showing how music is assimilated into the American Zappa Songbook. Not only that, it also appeared Zappa, the American rock composer also deserve appreciation as other composers of popular music including jazz composers like Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Oliver Nelson, or George Gershwin and Cole Porter. Despite the complexity of his music, Palermo Big Band consists of 18 musicians and three guest musicians play with great inspiration and pleasure.

“I am proud and happy with this CD because I was not forced to follow the structural format Zappa”, said Ed. “Never be my desire to imitate Zappa recordings (after all, what’s the point?) And this is my third work (in the re-interpretation of Zappa’s music), I felt free to manipulate the structure of the music. I think this is a natural evolution “.

As an arranger, composer, bandleader and saxophonist, the works of Ed Palermo of Frank Zappa music like magic. Since 1994, he devoted every appearance on Zappa composition. Palermo has arranged approximately 200 songs of Zappa.

The following comments All About Jazz, “Like Zappa, and Duke Ellington before, Palermo’s main instrument is his band. And with him at the helm it manages to capture perfectly the spirit of Zappa’s music whilst stamping its own authority on the Adventurous arrangements with its exuberant, joyous ensemble playing and in the quality of the solos. “

Pad May 2006, Cuneiform Records released ‘Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance’, which is the second album from the Ed Palermo Big Band. Albums that got praise from the public and critics both jazz and rock became one of best-selling album of Cuneiform.

Besides busy with personal projects, Palermo also arrange conduct and other bands. One of the interesting in the world big band in America today is probably the arrangements on the work of James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul”, to Big Band Christian McBride. His work was presented on September 6, 2006 in a concert at the Hollywood Bowl, which was then showing the late Brown sang with the band – just a few months before his last breath.

Palermo also conduct U.S. Army Blues (also known as the U.S. Army Blues Jazz Ensemble, and is part of the U.S. Army Band) in a special concert show his arrangement Zappa and recently held at a base outside the city Military Washington DC last April 2009.

More information about the album, Ed Palermo’s ‘Eddy Loves Frank’ please click www.PalermoBigBand.com