ZaFTIG - The Zappa Family Trust Issues Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781512386523)

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: Scott Parker, Edward Komara
ISBN-10: 1512386529
ISBN-13: 9781512386523
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2015
Pages: 362
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.75d

About the Author
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.