MAKE A JAZZ NOISE HERE

"Make a jazz noise here" is an amazing recording from the same 1988 tour that gave us "The best band you never heard in your life" but this album is completely different from the other one: most (not all) of the songs on this record are instrumental versions that showed the skills of Zappa and his band creating the most epic performances.

Some of the best moments of the first CD are the led by trumpet version of "Black napkins", the even jazzier version of "Big Swifty" and the tremendous guitar solo on "Fire and chains". Some classics by The Mothers of Invention as "Let's make the water turn black", "Harry, you're a beast" and the whole performance of "King Kong" were also excellent instrumental moments of this album while "Oh no" was not totally instrumental but definitely had very exquisite arrangements.

The second CD includes some titles previously performed in the magnificent Helsinki concerts in 1974 ("Dupree's Paradise" and "T'Mershi Deween") and other classic songs as "Cruisin' for burgers", "The black page" and "Strictly genteel" but most of the themes actually came from more recent (in those days) recordings and excellent improvisations (it even includes a song from "Frank Zappa meets The Mothers of Prevention"). The version of the "Sheik yerbouti" original song "City of tiny lights" has a much more entertained performance than the one on the most sold Zappa album. "Them or us" was also remembered with "Sinister footwear" and "Stevie's spanking" (even when Stevie didn't play here).

This is one of the jazziest albums Frank Zappa ever recorded, not fully Jazz since, as any Zappa record, this is a salad of a huge amount of different musical styles.

SONG RATING: Stink foot, 4 When yuppies go to hell, 5 Fire and chains, 5 Let's make the water turn black, 4 Harry, you're a beast, 4 The orange county lumber truck, 4 Oh no, 4 Theme from Lumpy Gravy, 4 Eat that question, 4 Black napkins, 5 Big Swifty, 5 King Kong, 5 Star Wars won't work, 3 The black page, 5 T'mershi duween, 5 Dupree's Paradise, 5 City of tiny lights, 5 Royal March from L'Histoire du soldat, 4 Theme from the Bartok Piano Concerto #3, 4 Sinister footwear, 4 Stevie's spanking, 4 Alien orifice, 4 Cruisin' for burgers, 4 Advance romance, 5 Strictly genteel, 5

AVERAGE: 4.4

PERCENTAGE: 88

ALBUM RATING: 4 stars

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