{"id":9124,"date":"2019-02-26T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T09:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/blog\/frank-zappa-the-black-page-piano-solo\/"},"modified":"2022-05-03T10:52:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T08:52:21","slug":"frank-zappa-the-black-page-piano-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/blog\/frank-zappa-the-black-page-piano-solo\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Zappa | The Black Page Piano Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In February 2019, The Black Page Piano Solo<\/em> by Frank Zappa<\/em> will be released on Label Musikfabrik<\/a>, arranged and performed by Ulrich L\u00f6ffler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here Uli tells us something about the making of the arrangement:<\/p>\n

Since summer 2005 we have been playing music by Frank Zappa<\/strong> with the Ensemble Musikfabrik<\/strong>. Already back then, our focus was clearly on the rather rocky music of the 70s – Roxy & Elsewhere<\/strong>, One Size fits all,<\/strong> etc. – And in the middle of it all, of course, The Black Page<\/strong>, black with notes, rhythmically extremely tricky, with frantically fast passages.<\/p>\n

On the live double album Zappa in New York from 1976, the composer comments: This song was originally constructed as a drum solo. After Terry (Bozzio) learned how to play The Black Page on the drumset, I figured, well, maybe it would be good for other instruments, so I wrote a melody that went along with the drum solo. And that turned into The Black Page, part 1, the hard version.<\/em><\/p>\n

And at some point I put a simple accompaniment for the left hand underneath this notorious melody with all its “hard to reach statistical density” (in its basic form)<\/em>. And that became The Black Page Piano Solo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New at Label Musikfabrik: Frank Zappa | The Black Page Piano Solo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-9124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programmnote","tag-label-musikfabrik"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9127,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions\/9127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}