Fuse & Napoleon Murphy Brock @Zappanale #33 2024-07-19 SBD

[@martinfredriksson8949]

Thank you all, you are fantastic and make me smile under this hardtimes we are passing at the moment, once again, thx, danke, tack. M

Mothers of invention , um amontoado de gênios!

[@2wayplebney]

Excellent. Beautiful. Wonderful.

[@davidwalters7867]

Anything with Napoleon Murphy Brock is #1 in my mind. Thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing back the greatest artist to live; FZ. The string production is great. Genius all the way to nirvana. GBG NO EDITS.

[@thomaszimmermann-g3m]

Danke für die Aufnahme des großartigen Konzerts!

[@AcoustiMan818]

Here meets virtuosity and passion for music without boundaries. Thx for sharing!

[@kleineBaerin18]

THX for sharing - deeply impressed! 💜

[@HarmlessTed]

Awesome!

[@mannibimmel09]

thank you!

[@kontorknauer6548]

How an hebrow (not Mozart) saying is going: "Music opens the doors to the paradise." Ensemble Fuse is an serious door-opener together with Napoleon Murphy Brock from San Francisco in Zappa, in contemporary music, in Jazz, in Rock and all different genres. Their common motto: "We play the music, we love". And we love it too. Thanks to Emma van de Schalie (violine), Julia Philippens, (violine), Mascha van Niewkerk (Cello), Aadrian Breunis (viola), Tobias Nijboern (doublebass) and Daniel van Dalen (percussion) from Amsterdam, NL. Come back. Play Bach and whatever You love. Sebastian Knauer (St. Catherine church Hamburg, "Zappa spielt für Bach")

[@BogartChannel7]

San Jose-based singer and keyboardist, Nick Chargin expended a great deal of effort, over a span of the last two years, to reinvigorate the music of Frank Zappa, as delivered by Frank’s hand-picked frontman of the 1970s: San Jose’s one and only, Napoleon Murphy Brock (aka “Napi.”) This effort resulted in the recent debut performance of at San Jose’s Art Boutiki Gallery. Nick Chargin (formerly of the Blissninnies, among other bands) gathered a cohort of extremely talented and musically adept to support the effort of presenting this much-loved but often challenging material. As bandleader, Chargin offered Napoleon the opportunity to jump backward in time and be the face of the music. The Stinkfoot Orchestra featured a blazing six-piece horn section with John Hassan (baritone saxophone), Jo Major (tenor and soprano saxophone), Paul Degen (saxophone/flute) Mike McWilliams (trumpet/flugelhorn), Kevin Kono (trumpet) and Mark “DBone” DeSimone (trombone). The orchestra’s rhythm section consisted of masterful percussion and vibraphonist Dillon Vado, ace-drummer Michael Palladino and rocking bassist Josh Baker, along with the exceptionally talented guitarist Tomek Sikora who delivered fantastic tones, fleet-fingered accuracy and a remarkable touch in rendering this fully composed music. Improvisations occurred but they were rare, which really emphasized the challenge put before Tomek.

[@abbazabbado]

Boy and girls, just a reminder : The man you see before you, Napoleon Murphy Brock, is, at the time of this performance, 81 years old. I repeat, EIGHTY (Bleepin')-ONE years old!! I realize that he performed nearly all of these tunes professionally for several years-more than 50 YEARS AGO-and managed to stay active in various "cover bands" over the years since. However, to be able to carry a tune like 'The Idiot Bastard Son' (1:03:10) without a painful (but understandable) reach or frazzled note, and further include some excellent Zappachops on both tenor sax and flute is simply beyond comprehension. Does this guy camp out in a cryogenic capsule when not on stage?

[@martindeuker39]

Unbelievable! Saw him exactly 50 years ago with FZ, George Duke, Chester Thompson, Ruth Underwood and so on in Berlin. But obviously he hasn't forgotten anything.

[@FUSENL]

Hope you all enjoy this! Some extra thanks as well to Tom Trapp for his amazing work on arranging most of the FZ works for us.

[@BogartChannel7]

This is a trip man,,. Das ist seyr gute!