Napoleon Murphy Brock

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Napoleon Murphy Brock
Napoleon Murphy Brock

Napoleon Murphy Brock is an American singer, saxophonist and flautist who is best known for his work with Frank Zappa in the 1970s, including the albums One Size Fits All, Roxy and Elsewhere, and Bongo Fury. He is perhaps best remembered for his vocal performances on Village of the Sun and Inca Roads; he also played the role of the "Evil Prince" on Zappa's Thing-Fish album. Brock has also performed with George Duke, Captain Beefheart and more recently with Neonfire and Robert Kramer. He remains a regular performer at Zappanale.

Brock appeared in the 2005 film Rock School, a documentary about The Paul Green School of Rock Music, an extracurricular music program that he and Project/Object have closely supported for several years.

In 2006, he toured with Frank Zappa's son Dweezil Zappa on the latter's Zappa Plays Zappa shows. He also regularly tours with fellow Zappa alumnus Ike Willis and others with Andre Cholmondeley's Project/Object. Other Zappa related projects he's been involved with include the Tampa, Florida based band Bogus Pomp, and the 16 piece Ed Palermo Big Band from New York City. His own most recent release is the 2003 album Balls.

Contents

Year Album Credit
2002 Balls Flute, Piano, Keyboards, Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor), Vocals, Whistle (Human), Producer, Harmony Vocals, Fender Rhodes, Synthesizer Bass, Screams

Year Album Credit
1974 Apostrophe' Saxophone, Vocals
1974 Roxy & Elsewhere Tenor Sax, Flute, Lead Vocals, Co-writer of Dummy Up
1975 One Size Fits All Flute and Tenor Sax, Lead Vocals on Florentine Pogen and Andy, background vocals on other tunes
1975 Bongo Fury Saxophone, Vocals
1976 Zoot Allures Saxophone, Vocals
1979 Sleep Dirt Saxophone
1979 Sheik Yerbouti Saxophone, Vocals, Background Vocals
1984 Them or Us Guitar, Saxophone, Vocals, Harmony Vocals
1984 Thing-Fish Saxophone, Vocals, Cast
1988 You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 1 Saxophone, Vocals
1988 You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 2 Saxophone, Vocals
1989 You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 3 Saxophone, Vocals
1991 You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 4 Saxophone, Vocals
1991 You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 6 Saxophone, Vocals
1995 Strictly Commercial
1996 Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa
1997 Have I Offended Someone?
1998 Cheap Thrills
1999 Son of Cheap Thrills

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