Sunday Session: March 1, 2020

Terri Lyne Carrington

Here's this week's roundup of various music-related items of interest:

* Winner Takes All: Igor Levit in the Attention Economy (Atavist.com)
* Innovation is Kris Davis’ Motivation (DownBeat)
* ‘You’re one of the more normal composers’: Simon Rattle and Thomas Adès swap notes (The Guardian)
* In Solo Works and Soundtracks, Colin Stetson Follows a Narrative (DownBeat)
* Scientists study blind piano prodigy (CBS News)
* How Long Will Spotify Allow Bootleg “Podcasts” to Top the Charts? (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* American Routes Shortcuts: Michael Cuscuna (WWNO)
* Fela Kuti’s “Coffin for Head of State” was genuine life-and-death protest music (TrebleZine.com)
* It was banned by the Nazis, Stalin and the Vatican. This is the surprising history of the saxophone (ABC.net.au)
* 'Say Amen, Somebody' Restoration Unveils The Wonder Of The Gospel Pioneers (NPR)
* Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain (Vice.com)
* On “I Am A Man,” Jazz Bassist Ben Williams Redefines Protest Music On His Own Terms (Bandcamp.com)
* The B-52s’ Kate Pierson on the Music That Made Her (Pitchfork.com)
* Melissa Aldana has burgeoning ‘Visions’ for her quartet (CapitalBop.com)
* There Was A Time: James Brown, The Chitlin’ Circuit, And Me: The First Days On The Bus (TheRecoup.com)
* Kurt Elling on Working with Danilo Pérez, Politics and Recording with an Indie Label (DownBeat)
* Social Science Becomes Social Art for Terri Lyne Carrington’s New Band (Jazz Times)
* Interview: Free Jazz Trumpeter Jaimie Branch on Music-Making as Time-Travel (Reverb.com)
* Watch the Trailer for Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things (Jazz Times)
* Bria Skonberg Digs Into Tension With ‘Nothing Never Happens’ (DownBeat)
* How Martin Luther King Jr. and Motown Saved the Sound of the Civil Rights Movement (TIME)
* Music Benefactors Wants to Solve the Crowdfunding Riddle for Musicians — Introducing the ‘Artist Public Offering’ (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Baltimore Rebirth: A New Bloom Of Jazz In Charm City (NPR)
* Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim reflects on life before and after apartheid, and how Duke Ellington and Thelonius Monk helped shape his career (Chicago Tribune)
* Post-club: Why DJs and producers are leaving nightclubs behind (MixMag.net)
* Branford Marsalis: Jazzman For The Masses (Long Island Weekly)
* Dweezil, Son of Frank (Weekly Alibi)

Sunday Session: May 20, 2018

Shabaka Hutchings

Here's a roundup of various music-related items of interest that have shown up in one of StLJN's various inboxes or feeds over the past week:

* New Orleans Celebrates Itself at Jazz Fest (Jazz Times)
* A Lifetime of Carla Bley (The New Yorker)
* Blanchard's trumpet sounds a call of protest (Minnesota Public Radio)
* Matt Marks, Versatile Composer And Musician, Dies At 38 (NPR)
* Guitarist & Composer Glenn Branca Dies at 69 (Billboard)
* Wynton Marsalis & Ethan Iverson: A Conversation on Jazz & Race (Jazz Times)
* Inside Cumbia's New Wave: How Raymix, Becky G Are Updating a Classic Genre (Rolling Stone)
* New Orleans Festival Hosts Generations (DownBeat)
* Spelman College Quietly Eliminates One Of The Country's Few Jazz Programs For Women (WBGO)
* 'The Jazz Ambassadors': When Dizzy and Satchmo Diplomacy Swung the Cold War (PopMatters.com)
* Checking In With Bob Ciano (NostalgiaKing.com)
* 'Isn't This Amazing?': Brian Eno's Boundless Curiosity (Rolling Stone)
* JazzFest Bonn Tinged by Air of Classical (DownBeat)
* The World of Cecil Taylor (New York Review of Books)
* Now TIDAL is accused of failing to pay record labels on time (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Interview \\ Shabaka Hutchings on taking up space and his account on an unjust police arrest (EZHMag.com)
* YouTube Expanding Music Credits on Videos (Pitchfork.com)
* Why Psychological Analysis Shows We're Right To Worry For Musicians' Mental Health (TheQuietus.com)
* Dweezil Zappa Shares ‘Good News’ Post About Resolving Family Issues (Jambase.com)
* What Artists Get Wrong With Their Vinyl Releases: A Conversation with Masterdisk’s Scott Hull (Reverb.com)
* First Listen: Joshua Redman, 'Still Dreaming' (NPR)
* Someone called 911, but this man’s maple instrument wasn’t a gun. It was a bassoon (Springfield News Sun)
* Mojos Working: A History Of Recorded Blues (UDiscoverMusic.com)
* Cecil Taylor (1929-2018), Frank O’Hara, Amiri Baraka (Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets)
* Pianist Ahmad Jamal charted a new popularity for jazz (Wax Poetics)
* Reggie Lucas, Miles Davis Guitarist and Madonna Producer, Dead at 65 (Rolling Stone)

Jazz this week: Erin Bode, Joe Policastro Trio, "Swing Symphony," Peter Martin, Jeremy Davenport, Dweezil Zappa, and more

This week's calendar of live jazz and creative music features jazz played by a variety of ensembles, from intimate duos and trios to a full symphony orchestra and big band teaming up to present the St. Louis premiere of a large-scale work from trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.

Let's go to the highlights...

Wednesday, May 2
Singer Erin Bode returns to Jazz at the Bistro for the first of two nights of performances, and the weekly "Grand Center Jazz Crawl" will feature T.J. Muller at The Stage at KDHX, the jam session led by bassist Bob Deboo at the Kranzberg Arts Center, and trumpeter Kasimu Taylor's quartet at The Dark Room.

Thursday, May 3
Chicago's Joe Policastro Trio, who are out on the road in support of their latest album Screen Sounds, will perform at The Dark Room.

Also on Thursday, singer Cheri Evans and CEEJazzSoul will perform at the Chase Club in the Chase Park Plaza Hotel, and singer Joe Mancuso will bring his organ trio plus guitarist Dave Black to Joe's Cafe & Gallery.

Friday, May 4
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will join forces with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (pictured, top left) for the first of three performances of Marsalis' "Swing Symphony" at Powell Hall.

"Swing Symphony," which is Marsalis's third symphonic work, debuted in 2010 in Berlin and New York City, and has been performed by a number of other orchestras in the US and Europe in the ensuing years. You can see two different performances of "Swing Symphony," plus some interviews in which Marsalis talks about the work, in this post from last Saturday.

Also on Friday, pianist Peter Martin (pictured, center left) will reunite his Inner Circle trio with bassist Chris Thomas and drummer Brian Blade for the first time in more than 20 years for the first of two nights of performances at Jazz at the Bistro; and singer David Giuntoli performs his cabaret show "We've Got A World That Swings" at the Kranzberg Arts Center.

Saturday, May 5
Trumpeter and singer Jeremy Davenport will be the headliner for Hope Happens' "14th Annual Evening of Hope," a benefit performance at the Sheldon Concert Hall raising funds for the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders.

Also on Saturday, the Funky Butt Brass Band will play a free show at The Bootleg at Atomic Cowboy, and trumpeter Jim Manley brings his band to Evangeline's.

Sunday, May 6
The St. Louis Record Collector & CD Show's spring event will take place at the American Czech Educational Center, and the Friends of Scott Joplin present their monthly "Ragtime Rendezvous" at the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site's Rosebud Cafe.

Monday, May 7
Trumpeter Jim Manley returns to his weekly residency at Momo's Greek Restaurant.

Tuesday, May 8
Guitarist Dweezil Zappa (pictured, bottom left), still embroiled in legal wrangling over the rights to perform his father Frank's music, will bring his "Choice Cuts" tour to The Ready Room.

For more jazz-related events in and around St. Louis, please visit the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar, which can be found on the left sidebar of the site or by clicking here. You also can keep up with all the latest news by following St. Louis Jazz Notes on Twitter at http://twitter.com/StLJazzNotes or clicking the "Like" icon on the StLJN Facebook page.

(If you have calendar items, band schedule information, news tips, links, or anything else you think may be of interest to StLJN's readers, please email the information to stljazznotes (at) yahoo (dot) com. If you have photos, MP3s or other digital files, please send links, not attachments.)

Dweezil Zappa to perform Tuesday, May 8 at The Ready Room

Guitarist Dweezil Zappa will be returning to St. Louis next year to perform at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 8 at The Ready Room.

Zappa (pictured), the son of guitarist and composer Frank Zappa, has been touring and playing his father's music for the past decade using the name Zappa Plays Zappa, with his last performance in St. Louis having been in October 2016 at The Ready Room.

Since then, he's become involved in a dispute with the Zappa Family Trust, the legal entity that controls the rights to Frank Zappa's image, music, and other intellectual property and that now is headed by Dweezil's brother Ahmet and sister Diva.

Though a complete recounting of the details is beyond the scope of a short blog post, the gist of the problem is that the ZFT wants Dweezil Zappa to pay to license future live performances of his father's music, as well as a cut of his merchandise sales. Dweezil, understandably, finds this unfair, since in recent years he's dedicated most of his working life to keeping FZ's music before the public via frequent touring, while bearing all the expenses of putting a band together and taking it on the road.

The immediate result of the disagreement was that Dweezil stopped using the name Zappa Plays Zappa for his group, and instead toured in 2017 as "50 Years of Frank: Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever the F@%K He Wants." This fall, the latest twists in the saga have included a new proposal from Dweezil to resolve the situation, and an announcement from the ZFT sanctioning something called "Frank Zappa – Back On The Road: The Hologram Tour" that supposedly will begin sometime in 2018.

Will the Zappa family's internal dispute be resolved by next May? Only time will tell, but in the meantime, tickets for Dweezil Zappa at The Ready Room are $25 in advance for general admission, $50 for a "VIP Soundcheck Party" that includes a 45-minute event before the doors open and a show poster, and are on sale now via Ticketfly.

Jazz this week: Dweezil Zappa, Lettuce, Marilyn Maye, Project/Object, and more

This week's calendar of jazz and creative music in St. Louis includes one grande dame of cabaret; a couple of danceable funk/jazz acts; two pianists sharing one stage at the city's most prestigious jazz club; and not one, but two tributes to the music of the eclectic guitarist and composer Frank Zappa, plus more.

Let's go to the highlights...

Wednesday, October 12
Promoting their latest recording, Within You, The People's Key begin a two-night stand that marks their debut at Jazz at the Bistro.

For the details, check out their appearance Monday on KTVI-Fox 2's morning newscast, and the brief Q&A between keyboardist Ryan Marquez and the Post-Dispatch's Kevin Johnson.

Thursday, October 13
Guitarist Dweezil Zappa (pictured, top left) brings his "50 Years of Frank: Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever the F@%k He Wants—The Cease and Desist Tour" to The Ready Room.

Although he's still more-than-capably performing music from his father Frank Zappa's vast catalog of compositions, and using the same musicians formerly known as Zappa Plays Zappa, Dweezil can no longer use his dad's name or likeness, due to what's become a rather ugly legal battle with his mother and two of his siblings. As the name suggests, this year's tour offers a broad retrospective of FZ music going back to his first album Freak Out, which was released 50 years ago.

Also on Thursday, funk/jazz band Lettuce returns to The Pageant, with electronic music duo The Geek x Vrv as opening act.

Friday, October 14
The aforementioned grande dame of cabaret, Marilyn Maye, returns for the first of two nights at the Gaslight Theater, kicking off the fall series for the Gaslight Cabaret Festival.

With a career stretching back more than 60 years, Maye (pictured, bottom left) remains a compelling performer, even at 88 years old. Although she was here this summer for the St. Louis Cabaret Conference, both shows are likely to sell out, if they haven't already, so advance reservations are suggested.

Also on Friday, pianists Adaron “Pops” Jackson and Phil Dunlap will team up on two grand pianos for the first of two nights at Jazz at the Bistro, supported by bassist Nick Jost and drummer Kaleb Kirby.

Elsewhere around town, singer Feyza Eren will present an evening of Brazilian music at The Chapel, and The BonBon Plot, a new trio that describes their sound as "bossa nova and modern French jazz with an indie twist" will play for the first of two nights at the Ozark Theatre.

Saturday, October 15
Bassist Kent Miller is in from Washington, DC with his quartet for a show of straight-ahead jazz at the Kranzberg Arts Center, and Wack-A-Doo plays swing and Americana at Evangeline's.

Also on Saturday, trumpeter Jim Manley and guitarist Randy Bahr's All-Star Band returns to Nathalie's; and the Funky Butt Brass Band's monthly gig at the Broadway Oyster Bar will feature a second-set tribute to the music of Huey Lewis and the News. (Don't say we didn't warn you!)

Sunday, October 16 
The area gets a second helping of Zappa music for the week as the long-running FZ tribute act Project/Object plays at 2720 Cherokee, joined by two of Zappa's former sidemen, singer, guitarist and St. Louis native Ike Willis and keyboardist Don Preston.

Although Dweezil Zappa has been, until recently anyway, the most "official" and best-known keeper of his dad's musical legacy, Project/Object are worthy and experienced interpreters, too. Yr. StLJN editor saw them play a few years back at Cicero's here in St. Louis, with Willis and former FZ saxophonist Napoleon Murphy Brock as guest performers, and they performed Zappa's music with skill and enthusiasm to spare.

For more jazz-related events in and around St. Louis, please visit the St. Louis Jazz Notes Calendar, which can be found on the left sidebar of the site or by clicking here. You also can keep up with all the latest news by following St. Louis Jazz Notes on Twitter at http://twitter.com/StLJazzNotes or clicking the "Like" icon on the StLJN Facebook page.

(If you have calendar items, band schedule information, news tips, links, or anything else you think may be of interest to StLJN's readers, please email the information to stljazznotes (at) yahoo (dot) com. If you have photos, MP3s or other digital files, please send links, not attachments.)

Sunday Session: August 7, 2016

Kendrick Scott

Some interesting music-related items that have landed in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Ten Louis Armstrong Landmarks (Offbeat)
* Quantum Computers Don’t Make Sense. But This One Makes Music (Wired)

* See John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie As You've Never Seen Them Before (Vanity Fair)
* Why Festivals Are More Popular Than Ever (DigitalMusicNews.com)
* Classic and unreleased Sun Ra tracks pressed to coloured 10″ EPs (TheVinylFactory.com)
* JT Essentials: Forgotten Fusion Classics - The Gary Burton Quartet, Jack DeJohnette and more (Jazz Times)
* Nate Wooley’s guide to American weirdos (The Wire)
* Sound Art Shows You What Musical Notes Actually Look Like (Gizmodo)
* Are corporate music festivals killing local venues? (AL.com)
* Kamasi Washington Talks Jazz-Ambassador Status, Life on the Road (Rolling Stone)
* Shopping for classical music: A remembrance (Philly.com)
* Scott Injects Dramatic Political Message into Drum Showcase (DownBeat)
* From Bowie to Prince: 10 Weird Video Games About Musicians (ElectronicBeats.net)
* Inside the Zappa Family Feud (Rolling Stone)
* Playing outside the box (The Economist)
* Herbie Hancock On His Next Album, Flying Lotus And Jupiter's Satellite (NPR)
* Headhunter Mike Clark Brings The Rhythm To The Checkout (WBGO)
* Roland: Moving forward (ResidentAdvisor.net)
* Audio-fail: why is so much sound art so bad? (The Guardian UK)
* Pete Fountain, New Orleans' clarinet-playing musical ambassador, dies at 86 (NOLA.com)

Dweezil Zappa to perform Thursday, October 13 at The Ready Room

Guitarist Dweezil Zappa is returning to St. Louis to perform at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, October 13 at The Ready Room.

His tour this year will feature music from and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Freak Out, the 1966 debut album by his father, the late guitarist and composer Frank Zappa.

However, since Dweezil (pictured), who is Frank's eldest son, has been involved in a legal battle with his three siblings over use of the Zappa name, his band can no longer use the moniker Zappa Plays Zappa, which they've toured under since 2006.

As a result, this year's series of shows is being billed as “50 Years of Frank: Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever The F@%k He Wants — The Cease and Desist Tour.”

Tickets for Dweezil Zappa at the Ready Room are priced from $25 to $50, and will go on sale at noon this Friday, July 15 via ticketfly.com.

Sunday Session: June 26, 2016

Bernie Worrell

Some interesting music-related items that have landed in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* The Defeat of New Music (New Music Box)
* How a Shamir Soundalike Ended Up in Apple's New Commercial (Pitchfork.com)
* The Digital Music Business and the Rashomon Effect (Medium.com)
* Don’t Look Back: The Return of Napster Highlights a Company Running Out of Options (JonMaples.com)
* Seven Of Henry Threadgill’s Favorite Recordings (MusicAficionado.com)
* The History of Electronic Music, 1800-2015: Free Web Project Catalogues the Theremin, Fairlight & Other Instruments That Revolutionized Music (OpenCulture.com)
* Grappling with the issues facing the industry (Gramophone UK)
* Women Composers Reign At Subdued 70th Ojai Festival (ClassicalVoiceAmerica.org)
* Original Voices Spice up International Anthem Showcase (DownBeat)
* Sir Charles Thompson, jazz pianist who bridged swing and bebop, dies at 98 (Washington Post)
* Photo Coverage: Bucky Pizzarelli Returns To Birdland (BroadwayWorld.com)
* Almost Famous, Almost Broke: How Does a Jazz Musician Make It in New York Now? (Village Voice)
* One Man’s Mission to Keep Musicians’ Legacies Alive (New York Times)
* Portland's Allegro Sought Inventory On The Verge Of Liquidation (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
* The Zen of Sonny Rollins (Jazz Times)
* Salvant, Redman Bring Jazz Flair to Pop-Heavy Playboy Fest (DownBeat)
* Midtown Meltdown: MSR Studios is Shutting Down (SonicScoop.com)
* Wayne Jackson, half of Memphis Horns duo, dies at age 74 (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
* Cult heroes: the 5th Dimension – elegant pop crooners who wowed the mainstream (The Guardian UK)
* Why Record Stores Mattered (The New Yorker)
* All The Way Live Or Else: The Perfection Of Van Morrison's 'It's Too Late' (NPR)
* Converse Puts a Pedal in Your Sole (Pro Sound News)
* The Zappas go to war (Los Angeles Times)
* The surprising history of the "song of the summer" (Vox.com)
* Inside Vijay Iyer's Year-Long Met Residency (Jazz Times)
* Bernie Worrell, 'Wizard Of Woo,' Dies At 72 (NPR)

(Edited 7/1/16 to fix a formatting problem.)

Sunday Session: May 1, 2016

Eddie Palmieri

Some interesting music-related items that have landed in StLJN's inbox over the past week:

* Jazz Fest Day 2: Whatever Happened to Rosie? (Offbeat)
* Before & After with Trevor Dunn - Listening wide, from A to Zappa (Jazz Times)
* New Music From Professor Longhair, Who Taught New Orleans How to Play The Piano (The Daily Beast)
* Artist backlash over YouTube’s royalty payments grows noisier (MusicBusinessWorldwide.com)
* Esperanza Spalding: Character Study (Jazz Times)
* How we made Laurie Anderson's O Superman (The Guardian UK)
* That Time I Opened Tower Records Early So Prince Could Shop (NBC)
* The oral history of Eddie Palmieri’s Harlem River Drive (WaxPoetics.com)
* How Jazz Saved Hip-Hop Again (Playboy)
* Photo Album: Highlights of the 2016 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest–Part 1 (DownBeat)
* 13 Cartoon Portraits of Legendary Blues Artists (Mother Jones)
* Classical music page-turners turn the page into the modern era (Philadelphia Inquirer)
* 'James Brown: Live At The Apollo Vol. 4' Is A Marvelous And Mysterious Time Capsule (NPR)
* Jazz Foundation of America Loft Party - The Cookers, Kahil El'Zabar and more (Jazz Times)
* After The Album: How Playlists Are Re-Defining Listening (MusicIndustryBlog)
* Beyond 'Mrs. Jones': Billy Paul's Music You Might Not Have Heard (NPR)
* Revisiting Loma Records, the L.A. Soul Label That Launched Ike and Tina Turner (LA Weekly)
* The Inside Story on Designing Prince's Paisley Park: Exclusive (Billboard)
* The Unbelievable True Story of the Wrecking Crew’s Max Bennett (Observer.com)
* Phil Kives, K-Tel International founder, dies at 87 (CBC)
* Sonny Rollins: “John Coltrane Was Like A Preacher” (Mojo)
* Photo Highlights of the 2016 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest (DownBeat)
* Anat Cohen Tentet Brings Retro Sound and Ebullient Spirit to Jazz Standard (DownBeat)
* The Blur of Music Discovery (Disquiet.com)
* Gregory Porter review – jazz chameleon finds countless ways to seduce (The Guardian UK)
* FootPrince - The jazz side of Prince (Jazz Times)
* Dweezil Zappa Changes Name of Zappa Plays Zappa Due to Sibling Disputes (Relix.com)
* Jazz Fest Day 4: What a Difference a Week Makes (Offbeat)
* Jazz Record Mart founder opens new store (Chicago Tribune)
* The great disappearing venues disaster (CentreForLondon.org)
* Stuck on repeat: why we love repetition in music (The Guardian UK)
* Radiohead's corporate empire: inside the band's dollars and cents (The Guardian UK)

Sunday Session: December 6, 2015

Amina Claudine Myers

 For your Sunday reading, some interesting music-related items that have turned up recently in StlJN's inbox:

* An Unexpected Reason for the Cassette Revival (NightFlight.com)
* Are these the last days of British bands touring America? (LouderThanWar.com)
* 100 Years Of Billy Strayhorn, Emotional Architect Of Song (NPR)
* Dweezil Zappa: Roots and Branches (Premier Guitar)
* Photos: Celebrating Billy Strayhorn on the A Train (Wall Street Journal)
* Obituary: Allen Toussaint (Offbeat)
* Download 30-gigs of lost cassettes from the 80s underground (FactMag.com)
* This Saxophonist Spends His MacArthur "Genius Grant" on Mentoring Young Jazz Musicians (LA Weekly)
* After 300 Years Of Evolution, Has The Piano Reached Acoustic Perfection? (Gizmodo.com)
* Thom Yorke Compares YouTube and Google to Nazis (FlavorWire.com)
* Stream a Free 65-Hour Playlist of John Cage Music and Discover the Full Scope of His Avant-Garde Compositions (OpenCulture.com)
* Interview: Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste (Offbeat)
* From NPR Music, Two Jazz Performances That Wrestle With Race And Policing (NPR)
* Making one album a year is no longer enough (unless you're Adele) (The Guardian UK)
* Wayne Horvitz: The Pianist And The Poet (NPR)
* Amina Claudine Myers, Evolving Song (Clocktower.org)
* Ennio Morricone: 'The Hateful Eight is like no western you have ever seen before' (The Telegraph UK)
* Maria Schneider on The Thompson Fields (AllAboutJazz.com)
* Indie Classical Music? It Exists, And One Nashville Tech Startup Is Trying To Save It (Nashville Public Radio)
* Are Artist Collaborations Making Genres Obsolete? (Medium.com)
* World's first computer-generated musical to debut in London (The Guardian UK)
* Bob Dylan's Setlists Aren't A-Changin' (LiveNationTV)
* Billboard Women in Music 'Legend' Loretta Lynn: 'Call Me Your No. 1 You-Know-What-Kind-Of Stirrer" (Billboard)
* Review: Josef Woodard’s Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth (Jazz Times)

Zappa Plays Zappa concert moved to The Ready Room

When Plush STL closed earlier this month, it left a number of already-booked shows in need of a place to happen.

Now it appears the last performance still in need of a new venue has found one, as the concert by Zappa Plays Zappa on Monday, April 20 (announced previously in this post) has been moved to The Ready Room.

This spring's ZPZ tour commemorates the 40th anniversary of the release of Frank Zappa's 1975 album One Size Fits All, and will feature performances of all the music from the album. Located at 4195 Manchester Ave in the Grove, The Ready Room is an 8,000 square foot venue that opened last year, featuring a musical menu of mostly rock acts booked by Mike Cracchiolo of the downtown club The Firebird.

Doors will open for the Zappa Plays Zappa show at 7:00 p.m., and the concert will start at 8:00 p.m.. General admission tickets for the all-ages concert are $25 in advance, $30 day of show, with a $2 surcharge for minors, and are on sale now via TicketFly.

There's also a VIP ticket offering early entrance and soundcheck access for $50 in advance. And in addition to the band's concert that evening, ZPZ's leader and guitarist Dweezil Zappa (pictured) apparently also will be doing a master class for guitarists at 3:00 p.m. that afternoon. Tickets for that cost $75 and do not include admission to the concert.