furio di castri

In 2004, Furio Di Castri and Gianluco Petralla released "Under Construcion". The album included their version of Frank Zappa's 'Twenty Small Cigars'.

Also in 2004, Furio Di Castri presented a Zappa tribute called "Zapping". The Zappa tribute took place on 2004/05/10 at the 'Asioli di Correggio' in Parma, Italy. The event was called "Zapping - Jazz is not dead, It just smells funny". It featured Furio Di Castri, Stefano Bollani, Gianluca Petrella, Giorgio Canali, Gianni Maroccolo, Mauro Negri, Pierpaolo Ferroni, Cristiano Della Monica, Peppe Servillo, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti. 

setlist :

• The Real FZ I

• Peaches En Regalia

• The Real FZ II

• Little Umbrellas

• King Kong

• Figlio di Idiota Bastardo

• The Real FZ III

• Twenty Small Cigars

• The Black Page

• Let’s Move To Cleveland

• Didja Get Any Onya p.1

• The Real FZ IV

• Didja Get Any Onya p. 2

• Eat That Question

• America Drinks and Goes Home

• The Real FZ V

• Didja Get Any Onya p.3 - America Drinks and Goes Home? Reprise

• Willie the Pimp

• Peaches En Regalia Reprise
  
  where "The Real FZ" shots were Lindo Ferretti reading selected passages from The Real Frank Zappa Book
  

2008 saw the release of the "Zapping" album. The project used the musical ideas of Frank Zappa and of Thelonius Monk and translated these into new compositions. It featured:

• Furio Di Castri – bass, sampling, electronics
• Nguyen Le – guitar, electronics
• Eric Voeimans – trumpet
• Joel Allouche – percussion
• Mauro Negri – alto sax, clarinet
• Rita Marcotulli - piano
  

info from Mauro Porzi:

I wish to add some detail to "Zapping - a tribute to the music of Frank Zappa"

The band of italian jazz and rock musicians: Giovanni Lindo Ferretti: vocal  * Peppe Servillo: vocal *  Mauro Negri: sax, clarinet *  Gianluca Petrella (great musician!): trombone *  Stefano Bollani (the best!): piano *  Gianni Maroccolo: electric bass *  Furio Di Castri (artistic direction): acoustic bass *  Pierpaolo Ferroni: drums * Cristiano Della Monica: percussion

During the show Giovanni Lindo Ferretti (vocalist of rock group CSI and PGR) with a mask of Frank Zappa on the face read passages of writings of Frank Zappa before every song . I don’t remember the complete track list. Some of the songs are Peaches en Regalia, King Kong, The Black Page (as the version on Lather album) Let’s Move to Cleveland (fantastic piano solo of Bollani) Idiot Bastard Son (italian version sung by Peppe Servillo vocalist of pop group Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel) and many others that I don’t remember. However a night of very great music. I moved from Rome (420 km!) with my family for it!!!!.

additional info:
- Mauro Porzi
- Luc Reniers
- Renzo Notari