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"Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny”: A jazz passage in a concert by Fido of Frank Zappa music
In "Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)", from "Roxy and Elsewhere" (1974), Frank Zappa says something that guitarist Stefan Strittmatter likes to quote: "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." Still, last night at the concert by Fido, a Basel-based band that plays the music of Frank Zappa,