Frank Zappa - Zappa's Universe (1993)

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Family, friends and fellow musicians of celebrated composer/bandleader/guitarist/sociologist/lobbyist Frank Zappa gather at his behest to perform a handpicked selection of his works. Zappa selected the pieces here from over 1200 compositions and over seventy albums - depending how you're counting -… More Family, friends and fellow musicians of celebrated composer/bandleader/guitarist/sociologist/lobbyist Frank Zappa gather at his behest to perform a handpicked selection of his works. Zappa selected the pieces here from over 1200 compositions and over seventy albums - depending how you're counting - with conductor Joel Thome. Filmed in 1991, this performance is billed as a musical lovefest celebrating the iconoclast's fiftieth birthday and his first quarter-century of sophisticated semipopular entertainment.