ZaFTIG - The Zappa Family Trust Issues Guide - Paperback

by Scott Parker (Author), Edward Komara (Author)

ZaFTIG is coming!! What is ZaFTIG? It is the Zappa Family Trust Issues Guide! Written by acclaimed musical historian and author Edward Komara with Scott Parker, this new book takes a look at Frank Zappa's catalog, with a focus on the releases of the various albums in the compact disc format. It details FZ's reasons for making the changes he made to his original albums for CD release, and the process that the Zappa Family Trust went through to restore them to their original glory for the universally-acclaimed 2012 Universal CD reissue series. It also functions as a guide for Zappa newbies, listing the various releases and giving the uninitiated some clues as to what in the heck they have stumbled upon!

Author Biography

Edward Komara is the Crane Librarian of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Previously he was the Music Librarian/Blues Archivist at the University of Mississippi. His chief publications have been about the blues, most recently 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own (with Greg Johnson; Rowman and Littlefield, 2014) and The Road to Robert Johnson (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2007). He has also published essays about jazz musician Charlie Parker, graphic novelist Dave Sim, and our hero Frank Zappa.