Director's Cuts: Frank Zappa's Music Legacy

By Ned Wharton

Published October 3, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Weekend Edition Sunday music director Ned Wharton reviews two new discs featuring the music of rock innovator Frank Zappa — Ensemble Modern's Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions and Quadiophiliac, a DVD-audio disc featuring multi-channel audio mixes Zappa created himself in the 1970s that are only now being heard by the public.

Ned Wharton

Ned Wharton is a senior producer and music director for Weekend Edition.

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