Biography
JIMMY CARL BLACK - Born in El Paso, Texas, Black was of Cheyenne heritage. His trademark line was "Hi Boys and Girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black, and I'm the Indian of the group." The line can be heard several times on the Mothers of Invention album We're Only in It for the Money. He has been credited on some Mother of Invention's (Frank Zappa's band) albums as playing "drums, vocals, and poverty".
He appeared in the movie directed by Frank Zappa, 200 Motels, and sings the song "Lonesome Cowboy Burt".
In the seventies he toured with Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band and with Geronimo Black, the band he founded with Mothers' wind player Bunk Gardner. In the eighties Jimmy and Bunk and Don Preston performed under the name The Grandmothers along with a bunch of other ex-Zappa musicians, but the band disbanded soon. Then Jimmy moved to Austin, Texas where he met English singer Arthur Brown. The duo recorded an album of classic R&B songs, Black, Brown and Blue, and performed together. In 1993 Jimmy moved to Europe, where he reformed The Grandmothers with original members Don and Bunk and with Dutch bass player Ener Bladezipper and Italian guitar player Sandro Olivia.
Black performed as a guest vocalist with the Muffin Men, a Frank Zappa tribute band based in Liverpool, England, and with Jon Larsen, on the surrealistic Strange News From Mars project, featuring several other Zappa alumni, such as Tommy Mars, Bruce Fowler, Arthur Barrow.
An autobiographical audio production with Jimmy Carl Black was recorded in 2007, called The Jimmy Carl Black Story, produced by Jon Larsen.
In July 2008 he recorded - together with Bruno Marini and Nicola Rigoni - "125 electronic bepop" album.
Black was diagnosed with lung cancer in August 2008, and died on November 1, 2008 in Traunstein, Germany.
Bruno Marini was born in Verona (Italy) on May 18th, 1958.
Baritone Sax and Hammond organ player, he has performed with Jack McDuff, Shirley Scott, Steve Lacy, Gary Bartz, Benny Golson, Joe Henderson, Sal Nistico, Hal Singer, Paul Jeffrey, John Tchicai, Joe Lovano, Clark Terry, Nat Adderley, Kenny Burrell, Mal Waldron, Donald Garrett, Bobby Durham, Jimmy Cobb, Joe Chambers, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Han Bennink, Steve Ellington, Jimmy Carl Black.
Nicola Rigoni - Verona, Italy, 12-03-1971
Nicola is a dj and tourntablist since 1987. In 1994 and 1995 he partecipated at DMC Italian championship; in the same years he founded the dj team MenInSkratch (they were finalist at DMC worldwide contest) and the 1mix2 studios.
As musician and producer, Nicola performed with Jimmy Carl Black, Fabri Fibra, Darryl Pandy, John Tchicai, Daniel Sous, U.t. Ghandi, Daniele Tedeschi, Bruno Marini, Cristina Mazza, Mauro Ottolini, Davide Ghidoni, dj Zeta and Bassi Maestro.
Nicola defines himself as an "ecletic and music lovers person, with passion in audio-visual-multimedia production"; he is expert in digital and analogic audio technologies and - thanks to this experience - he created the MotherFukers's Sound, a dynamic and "very fat" sound.
He appeared in the movie directed by Frank Zappa, 200 Motels, and sings the song "Lonesome Cowboy Burt".
In the seventies he toured with Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band and with Geronimo Black, the band he founded with Mothers' wind player Bunk Gardner. In the eighties Jimmy and Bunk and Don Preston performed under the name The Grandmothers along with a bunch of other ex-Zappa musicians, but the band disbanded soon. Then Jimmy moved to Austin, Texas where he met English singer Arthur Brown. The duo recorded an album of classic R&B songs, Black, Brown and Blue, and performed together. In 1993 Jimmy moved to Europe, where he reformed The Grandmothers with original members Don and Bunk and with Dutch bass player Ener Bladezipper and Italian guitar player Sandro Olivia.
Black performed as a guest vocalist with the Muffin Men, a Frank Zappa tribute band based in Liverpool, England, and with Jon Larsen, on the surrealistic Strange News From Mars project, featuring several other Zappa alumni, such as Tommy Mars, Bruce Fowler, Arthur Barrow.
An autobiographical audio production with Jimmy Carl Black was recorded in 2007, called The Jimmy Carl Black Story, produced by Jon Larsen.
In July 2008 he recorded - together with Bruno Marini and Nicola Rigoni - "125 electronic bepop" album.
Black was diagnosed with lung cancer in August 2008, and died on November 1, 2008 in Traunstein, Germany.
Bruno Marini was born in Verona (Italy) on May 18th, 1958.
Baritone Sax and Hammond organ player, he has performed with Jack McDuff, Shirley Scott, Steve Lacy, Gary Bartz, Benny Golson, Joe Henderson, Sal Nistico, Hal Singer, Paul Jeffrey, John Tchicai, Joe Lovano, Clark Terry, Nat Adderley, Kenny Burrell, Mal Waldron, Donald Garrett, Bobby Durham, Jimmy Cobb, Joe Chambers, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Han Bennink, Steve Ellington, Jimmy Carl Black.
Nicola Rigoni - Verona, Italy, 12-03-1971
Nicola is a dj and tourntablist since 1987. In 1994 and 1995 he partecipated at DMC Italian championship; in the same years he founded the dj team MenInSkratch (they were finalist at DMC worldwide contest) and the 1mix2 studios.
As musician and producer, Nicola performed with Jimmy Carl Black, Fabri Fibra, Darryl Pandy, John Tchicai, Daniel Sous, U.t. Ghandi, Daniele Tedeschi, Bruno Marini, Cristina Mazza, Mauro Ottolini, Davide Ghidoni, dj Zeta and Bassi Maestro.
Nicola defines himself as an "ecletic and music lovers person, with passion in audio-visual-multimedia production"; he is expert in digital and analogic audio technologies and - thanks to this experience - he created the MotherFukers's Sound, a dynamic and "very fat" sound.
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