A new Frank Zappa box set will commemorate two of the late artist's jazz-influenced albums, 1972's Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo, in conjunction with their 50th anniversaries. The Waka/Wazoo box set ...

Vaulternative Records will release Frank Zappa's 2-CD concert recording Wazoo on May 27, 2008, marking the first 2008 anniversary release exclusively from the Zappa Family Trust. The Trust - headed by ...

Frank Zappa didn't invent the word "wazoo" or proliferate its usage. However, he was the first to use it in an album and song title that, surprisingly, had no ...

This double-disc bit of live instrumental zaniness from Frank Zappa’s pinnacle years (it was recorded in Boston in 1972) features the guitarist’s 20-piece Grand Wazoo/Hot Rats/The Mothers of Invention ...

Some have called the 1971 European tour of Frank Zappa and his band, the Mothers, cursed. Famously, at the December 4, 1971 show a fan fired a flare gun at the Montreux Casino during Zappa's set, ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Frank Zappa fans can soon enjoy a previously unreleased 1972 concert recording, the latest material from the deceased rock star's archives to be unveiled. "Wazoo," a two-disc ...