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2015

Roxy: The Movie

Directed by Frank Zappa
Released just in time for Frank Zappa's favorite holiday, Halloween. Roxy: The Movie is a stunning homage to one of unpopular music's most fearless musicians.

A Frank Zappa show goes way beyond a mere concert – it is an experience…a flight of improvisation, musicianship, and cerebral cynicism. An unparalleled Composer and Guitarist, Zappa redefined rock n roll paradigms by introducing into the mix his favorite influences from classical music, jazz, blues, doowop, traditional and non-traditional music. And he did so with unparalleled humor and audacity. But it was the music itself that influenced generations of musicians and, quite frankly, blew minds. Roxy: The Movie, filmed over three nights in December 1973, at the Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, CA, is a powerful display of this experience, and reveals what made him such a pioneering musical revolutionary.

Duration

1h 35m

Released

September 10, 2015

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Cast10

  • Frank Zappa
  • George Duke
  • Napoleon Murphy Brock
  • Ruth Underwood
  • Chester Thompson
  • Ralph Humphrey
  • Pamela Des Barres
  • Carl Franzoni
  • Joan Sloatman

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