Zappa U | The Film
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Since 2013, the University of Hawaii Hilo Jazz Orchestra has performed annual Frank Zappa tribute concerts. This is their story... from the classroom to the concert hall.
The film is listed on IMDB:www.imdb.com/ti.... You can read concert reviews for UH Hilo Jazz Orchestra here: bigislandmusic.... Use the search box in the upper right corner.
Thanks for your support!
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There is nothing else quite like Zappa. I think 500 years from now people will still consider Frank one of the greatest composers of all time.
Ok, make that a 1000 years...
I hope you're right
William: I'd like to be around in 500 years to find out.
i doubt that
He is one of the greatest composers of all time. No need to wait for another 500 years.
Who could imagine what it was like buying Freakout because of the strange cover, not having ever heard of The Mothers of Invention. I can. I was 15 years old and it changed my life. To this day I know the lyrics by heart. Frank is in my DNA and very welcome there.
i did the same with Burnt Weeny Sandwich
I did the same with Sheik yerboutti. First time i really listened to Zappa and i got hooked for life!
Tears are rolling down my cheeks. This is so much of my school days, in the late 1970's, 7th 8th 9th grade. I got introduced to the music of Zappa by my older sister and her boyfriend who was a dj and a crazy funny guy himself. And these students are so wonderfully free and happy with such a wonderful teacher as Trever who is giving the youngsters such a great gift of exploring the genious if Frank Zappa and his philosophy of being yourself and having fun and a laugh at it all. I coild just go on and on.
What a great inspirational teacher! And being so involved and engaging, and giving so much of himself it's just pure love. Of course the other teachers and parents as well. I'm just all choked up from this experience of watching this video.
I do love my upbringing and all I experienced at 13 14 15 years old, but I do wish we would have had more of this free loving and inspirational atmosphere in school.
I was also assigned the trumpet in school when I actually would have wanted to learn guitar or drums, as all boys did.
I made up for this on the side of course, tinkering with electric guitars, building amplifiers, fuzz boxes and stuff with my friends. Creating a band and had so much fun, still have lots and lots of 4 track tapes from that time. But, as said, I do wish one had had more of this inspirational guidance as demonstrated in this fantastic video! Peace.
~Namaste 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟❤⚘
Tears always run down my face when I think of Frank. I started listening to him at 13 yo in 73, When the band opened with Penguin and hit that first note was my musical epiphany, I was struck by lightning by that not.I saw Fank over 30 times from 73-88 always in NYC or very close.Saw him every Halloween he played in NYC.
~25 years of dancing about architecture (writing about music) was borne from chasing down Zappa band members (Belew, Ike, Vai, Bozzio, Colaiuta, Wackerman, Keneally, even Dweezil and "Vaultmeister" Joe Travers). Recently watched a concert and now this. Does my heart well. Thank you.
Great to see young people playing Frank, love it
I think what should mainly be remembered about Frank Zappa is his continual attempt to make us look at things with our own eyes and not letting others think in our stead. Frank was an anti-conformist and a realist thinker, and used humor and satire to ease the swallowing of the truth he was trying to expose. And yes I'm glad that his vision, without which most of his musical experimentation would possibly not have kept its relevance over time, is in good hands. We, as a specie, need more cynical geniuses like Frank.
Will need to journey to the Big Island very soon. Wish we had the UH talent here in Austin. Been a Zappa fan for over 50 years. Never gets old, like I do. Mahalo.
This doc made me cry,how strange ,a mixture of memories of being this young and constantly playing Zappa knowing every nuance of every lp and knowing then this guy was what's known as a genius, the most overused word was apt here, now all these years later watching this filled me with so much emotion , there is a truth to some music that just cuts through ALL the bullshit and Frank Zappa lived by this ,his music is only just begining.
I am a Zappa fan for 50 years now. These kids impressed me deeply. Even for pro musicians it's hard to perform Franks music. But it's even harder to transport his energie and humor. These kids did. Big hands for their great performance.
"The present day composer refuses to die." Thanks to the ongoing efforts of youth today - such as UHHJO!
I have been a Zappa fanatic since 1968, seeing Frank Zappa and his numerous bands a total of 66 times. He would be proud and delighted to see his music played so well, and to see the youth of today still playing his music. May Zappa music live on forever, and with people like Trevor maybe it will.
I would be happy to help this project. I have TONS of charts and orchestral scores for Zappa's music. My old band was Bogus Pomp. I'd love to send some charts to these great young players.
Aloha Jerry, I just saw this post! I am the director of the Hilo Jazz Orchestra. I'd love to talk more. My emails is trever@hawaii.edu
Where do you get the scores?
Miss you, Frank! Hey…all of you in this performance…T H A N K. Y O U. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks for all the comments on Zappa U, and spreading the word on social media.We may be living on an island in the Pacific, but we love Frank Zappa's music! There's a IMDB page at:www.imdb.com/title/tt6734866/. The movie is now entered in the Maui and Oahu Film Festival.
Frank was never really played on the radio outside of Scandinavia (!), and without that vital outlet for his music,
his legacy has been threatened for years to become forgotten by people who aren't old-timers or musicians in the know.
Most of the time, if you meet someone under the age of 30 who's familiar with the Zappa name, what they do know
is that he wrote funny lyrics about sex. And many of them are also under the impression that he must've been high to
write such "weird" music, which couldn't be further from the truth.
Anyway, given how accomplished this music is and what an achievement it was for Frank to write so damn much of it
without it really losing any quality over the years, it would be criminal to see it be forgotten.
Zappa Plays Zappa do a great job of keeping the flame alive, but they're just one band and can't be everywhere.
And given the complexity of the music, it's not something that a lot of tribute bands would dare touch, or could do
justice. So that's why it's so great to see someone passionate like Trevor who cares about this stuff, bringing it to
the kids.
It teaches people to REALLY play, it opens up a lot of ears and minds in the audience, and it ensures that this timeless
music doesn't have a sell-by-date.
Frank wrote music in pretty much every conceivable genre, so there should be something for everyone.
Let's remember that and remind others!
I beg to differ. Frank was played here in Austria on the Radio. Not on the standard playlist but in feature shows.
The song Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy really has it all. I grin every time I hear it. It's soo rich with so much going on that first-time listeners miss the whole story played out in the song. Only Frank could compose a song about somebody who enjoys being stomped on by plastic leather shoes. The guitar solo on that tune is a facemelter.
This should have a million likes
Is this what heaven looks like?
The Best CZcams recommendation in a long time!
Thank you so much for posting this. It makes my old heart sing to know there are generations behind me who are dedicated to keeping Frank Zappa's music alive. Long may you play!
"Ok, now play it in 7/8, now in reggae..." These young folks are kickin' ass. Remember not only did FZ's band have to know the songs but on a whim (a tug on his hair or some other directorial signal) they had to change the tempo or the rhythm. That challenge awaits the students going for their master's degree 🙂
"I heard linda ronstat is looking for a guitarist"
@@chadw537 I have watched that SV testimonial more than a few times.
why the hell has this only had 824 views a bloody shame guys!!!! should be a million plus!!
Simon Mcgrath. thank you!
Hey I should and am thanking u, I've told some guys in Liverpool England (where I'm from) to spread the word about u guys n girls, it's the best I can do, just don't stop what ur doing..........cuz it's so worthwhile and fulfilling of that I'm sure, I get that from just listening to Franks music so to play like u do is so much more emotional !!!!
superbe hommage Bravo a tous 👏👏👏
Regardez Swing Girls, un film japonais sur des amateurs débutants qui montent un Big band. Très drôle. Ça doit trainer sur une plateforme je suppose.. 😉
Excellent!...I think Frank would have loved this!...
Greetings from the UK
Paul martin thanks so much!
i think he had much preferred if people come up with there own ideas...
Obrigado pelo presente, parabéns à todos os envolvidos, beijos aqui de Ilha Comprida, São Paulo - Brasil, longa vida aos bons sons, amei.!!!!!!!🎸🥰🇧🇷🌊🎸🥰🇧🇷🌊🎸🥰🇧🇷🌊🎸🥰🇧🇷🌊
Thanks for spreading the word that Zappa was a great composer.
Long time a Zappa fan.
First time ive herd Zappa was in 1976.
The only music i listen is from Frank.
It's complète!
Good Job and thank you for perpetuatint this résolu good music.
Best Zappa doc Ive seen. Well done to everyone involved in this project.
Thanks very much!
OMG! I am so impressed that Trevor has gone to the depths of hell to chart Frank's music! Amazing and I take my bass player hat off to him and all of the musicians ho attempt to do this!
When the bar is Zappa, the world is yours.
LORD Had Mercy To The People "in" Hawaii And This Excellent Music This People Can Hear
I think that Frank will be very proud of you people playing his music very respectfull!
@Norm Meunier Gail gets a lot of flack and rightfully so but she handled all the family matters and a good portion of the Zappa enterprise so that Frank could have more time to do what he did and compose all the music you hear. Imagine trying to produce a great body of work like Frank's with a wife who constantly craved attention and was always getting in your way. He worked tirelessly for decades, she stayed away and they made it work.
So great! What a great program - wish Inhad gone to your school
40 years a freak , young breed of freaks sending and keeping it freaky life is good ❤❤❤
Excellent documentary. Kudos to the band for capturing some of the Zappa spirit and bringing it to life. Music is the best.
So as I see that the end of the video is nearing, I'm thinking, "Man I wish they had played the Oh No/Orange County Lumber Truck Medley!". And low and behold there it is backing the credits. Wish I could have seen that part of the performance. That medley is at the heart of what FZ is about (IMHO), and I'm glad to know that's it part of this band's repertoire. A giant THANK YOU to Trevor for this vision, all of Trevor's students that get it and love it, and to Big Island Music Magazine for sharing this video. I beg you to film and post upcoming performances so that all of us can relive Frank's music again. Bravo!
Oh you made me smile. Was your age when Zappa appeared on the music scene, and followed him all my life. Nice to see the music is being passed on.
Now I want to go to Hawaiiiiiiiiiiiiii :-)))
I'm fricking moving to hawaii. Yup.
Keep it up!!! Frank and #dweezilzappa are the ultimate best musicians and best all around dudes ever. Listening to Zappa and special features is the light of my life,.
OMG did i just find this NOW? WHY???? AWESOME!!!!
it's 3am here in London, I have to go to bed... I won't be able to sleep now... but I must... I can't wait to see the rest of this. Zappa is one of the best composers of the 20th century... great to see the younger generation understanding and appreciating Frank's music (many of my friends are musically vacuous and don't get it). Love it, will watch the rest tomorrow.
Had a good night sleep since ?
Sleep well, finish your dreams, ..it's important. 😉
Zappa is the best!!! Ever!!!
you guys and girls are a credit to the legacy that is the music of FZ and the work that goes in to playing that music as well as u do is no mean feat I mean Frank used to practise with the touring band for 2-3 months so respect to u guys and to the man who started it all thru his passion for the man and music of our beloved and so missed Frank Zappa!!
Excellent tribute to the UH Hilo Jazz Orchestra and Mr. Trever Veilleux! Your cinematography and edits are superb. The big plus for me is that the central theme is Frank Zappa and his music and compositions. Mr. Roby, you have done an excellent job. Thank you so much for this.
Hopefully, this was entered in some film festivals.
Wow. This was so great. Honestly had me tearing up a little at the very end. Thank you for making this documentary. Definitely adding seeing this show to my bucket list.
Same here, whew...great stuff. Had something stuck in my eye a few times.
I love the fact that a whole new generation of FZ enthusiasts are out of the blocks, theres so much to appreciate, and still so much more in the vault to be released, that fact alone makes us the luckiest fans of all . Great work Trevor keep it alive!!
A good job done by all. It's important that FZ's music lives on not just for audiences, but especially that it's now a part of all these students who will carry with them whatever aspects strike their fancy to whatever projects they'll be involved with for the rest of their lives. That's really how music survives through time.
And for all the old FZ fans like myself who just love it when bands today take on his pieces, there is a band I'm surprised nobody's mentioned in the first 147 comments. All these students are doing a great job and I don't take anything away from them, but they are still students. For over twenty five years some of the finest professionals in New York (read: the world) have been continuously been performing and recording FZ as a big band. It's the Ed Palermo Big Band and they're easy to find on CZcams, as well as having several albums still in print. Much of it is FZ material outright, and he also weaves FZ lines and ideas into other's compositions as a mash up.
Should Mr. Veilleux read this, you might enjoy contacting Ed. He too is an educator, and an all around nice guy. There's no telling what kind of good could come of it. You can email him at his website.
Amazingly wonderful that a young gereation is on to Frank Zappa. When I ask people in the street in England if they've heard of Frank Zappa, they all say no!
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@@mikekrause3671 I know.
Great Zappa's music!!!!
Viva Zappa, viva all of you, let's move to Hilo oh yeah and arf!!!
I wish I'd gone to this school. What a marvellous group of youngsters and teachers.... Well done. Loved the video.
Went to Dweazil concert in Western Australia early this year was Brilliant just like this video inspiring teacher exellent guitarist.
Great to see the inspiration still from FZ ! Thanks !
Very cool all the way to trevor playing the Parker like Adrian Belieu forgive my spelling Mr Belieu.But this is Awesome was blessed to see him conduct San Jose symphony orchestra. Amazing.And Frank could make an SG do so much more than that growl that we all expect from it.Insane!!!!!
Adrian Belew will forgive you, i guess, as Trevor plays on the Steve Vai Ibanez.
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Inspirational, touching, had me in tears, this is the way, what a star you are Trevor, Music is the best!
Zappa would, I suspect, be so proud of these young people. They do the music full justice. They are so talented and did an exemplary job. I found Zappa in my youth in the very early 80's and was hooked from the beginning. I saw him in the UK in 88. This band cuts it. Salute to them and bravo.
awesome VDO, awesome talented young musicians..tks 4 continuing the legacy of FZ...greetings from the land of smiles aka Siam n a FZ fan since the early 19seventees...
And thank you Trevor, students 'n' all, for expressing Frank's music to a new generation... oh, and the film-makers. Great job.
Thank-you!!!!!!!!
Finally someone has the guts to think outside the square
and keeping Franks music alive and introducing it to the younger musicians
Frank Zappas music should be a subject in every school world wide
Thank-you to everyone involved at this school allowing Franks music to be played and heard,
As Frank would say!!
1. Dont stop
and
2. Keep going
Lots of Motherly love
from Australia
Thank-you
Kill Ugly Radio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I must say that Roger Winter's recreation on Zappa's Packard Goose solo is a wonderful piece of work and appears to have elicited surprisingly little comment. Thanks for the documentary
THIS IS A GREAT DOCUMENTARY SHOULD BE IN THE MAINSTREAM TV... ZAPPA IS A COOL THING TO GET INTO. I LIVED THROUGH THE 60s and actually remember Zappa falling of stage in THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL. For some reason my Grandad knew who Frank was and what he represented... I grew respecting freedom and Intelligent creativity. This is what Frank and his music represent to these people. Good in a world where it easier to start a war than a Jazz group we need these people. All hail freedom... After all its free.. Don't costnowt.. Can't make the poor people suffer for ignorance no more.... Me a N the pygmy pony over by the Dental floss Bush..!!!
Thanks! It was an offical selection in the Hawaii Island Film Festival.
I GOT FAMILY FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, TO LIVE AND PRODUCE THIS LEVEL OF MUSIC AND DOCUMENTARY IS SPECIAL AND UPLIFTING.. GGGGREAT. PLAY MYSELF AND HERE IN LEEDS ENGLAND WE JUST GOT BOMBARDED BY DWEEZIL, STEVE VAI AND ALICE COOPER.. ALL CONNECTED TO ZAPPA AND IT REALLY TUNED A FEW PEOPLE ON TO XPRESSION AND PERSONAL FREEDOM. TO LIVE WITHIN THE MACHINE AND Create the Human dream which betters the human condition 😎🌠
So beautiful respect to Frank . You are all simply amazing, thanks alot.Chapeau
AMAZING WORK GUYS. Saw Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa, and decided there and then that yes i was going to play guitar. I am a dreamer and can not write or read Music, just a bedroom player. But would love to be out there with you all every year. But emmensly enjoyable to watch this. Shame I didnt see it live.
Hidden treasure.
Great job. I'd like to see the whole show! I've been hooked on FZ ever since my brother came home from college one weekend with One Size Fits All back in the late 90's. Thanks for helping to turn on more people to Zappa's music.
Beautiful & heartwarming.Good job folks.xxx
Excellent work that you are a torch bearer for Frank's music and passing it on to younger generations, well-done sir, fantastic film, also the words and ideas are more needed and relevant than ever before.....
you guys need to take this show on the road!!!
Awesome! I'll have to come home this year or next to enjoy #5 or #6. Thanks Trever for all you have done to make this happen. Another reason Hilo is one of the most amazing place in the world!
This is the best. Thank you, I will be coming to the next show.
Great to see young folks inspired and intrigued by Zappa! Keep it up, sounds Great!
Excellent, worthwhile, fun, challenging. All of school should be thus.
I'm sorry but you can try to imitate frank's sound and it it will never be what it was. Especially Frank's guitar tone and style of playing the entire fretboard never reapeating himself twice. Good on them for keep his music alive.
Zappa's music without FZ's involvement always just sounds... I dunno, like a recital or something. (There are of course exceptions, like when Mike Keneally played Inca Roads on an acoustic guitar.)
P.S Frank would be Smiling upon you all with admiration. ANd may have offered you jobs in the Band. Miss you EVERYDAY FRANK.
Excelente !, un homenaje con todo el amor, y un reconocimiento a todos los solistas
Every drumsolo ever Always end up with a bit of bonham i it :)
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Great music- creative- tight- mind -expanding spiritual gorgeous sound
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Fantastic!! Really well done, congrats to all involved. This is a great way for young up and coming musos to not only experience what it's like playing in a big band but to also to be playing challenging music of the caliber of Zappa's whilst also preserving the music of Frank that people don't usually get a chance to experience in a live setting like this. Great work by all of you and thank you for such a great doco, you should all be very proud.
ॐ Shanti ... ॐ Shanti...ॐ Zappa...ॐ Zappa .....what a mensch ...miss the man
Very well played guys...kudos
I know Frank would have loved this! I fucking love this! You guys are so kick ass!
Simply amazing, thank you
First time I heard of the UoHHJO; freakin' amazin' !!!
Please continue to keep the tradition alive.
[nb going to see ZPZ play in Montreal (Laval), Quebec, Canada in a couple of weeks; can't wait !)
"Zappa all the way Braddah"..yes indeed.
Very awesome!, thanks for doing this.-I would love to listen to "Zomby Woof"
Brought me to tears.
Exceptional at 26...
Fantastici. Frank sarebbe stato onorato ascoltarvi.
Great to see young people loving Zappa!! That one song is "Pygmy Twylyte", not "it can't happen here". Just saying
so....it didn't happen there?
..; in all caps: WONDERFUL !!
DAMN! I wanna hear Zomby Wuff and Peaches! WOW!
If you like this kind of musical expérience by amateurs, watch Swing Girls, a japaneese movie, amateurs, beginners forming a swing orchestra. A good movie, funny too.
Fido!
Here Fido!
What a 5 min drum solo...
J'adore!!!!
Fresh takes on some great music! Awesome!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wonderful! thank you all!
Top shit.
Minor FYI: song labelled "It Can't Happen Here" is actually Pygmy Twylyte.
Incredible doc. is the full show from 2016 (zappa 4), that is highlighted in this film available anywhere on CZcams?
Love Zappa!