Bruce Lambourne Fowler (born July 10, 1947) is an American

trombonist The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

and

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

. He played trombone on many

Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by wikt:nonconformity, nonconformity, Free improvisation, free-form improvisation, sound experimen ...

records, as well as with

Captain Beefheart Don Van Vliet (; born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. Conducting a rotating ensemble known as Th ...

and in the Fowler Brothers Band. He composes and arranges music for movies, and has been the composer,

orchestrator Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orch ...

, or conductor for many popular films. He is the son of

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

educator William L. Fowler and the brother of multi-instrumentalist Walt Fowler and bassist Tom Fowler. Bruce Fowler is participating in the Band from Utopia, the Mar Vista Philharmonic, and

Jon Larsen Jon Larsen (born 7 January 1959) is a gypsy jazz guitarist, record producer, painter, and amateur scientific researcher. He is the founder of the group Hot Club de Norvège. In 2007 he received the Buddy Award for his lifelong contribution to ...

's Strange News from Mars, featuring Zappa alumni Tommy Mars and Arthur Barrow. He also recorded albums with Air Pocket, a band including his siblings. Fowler is the recipient of the 2007 Film & TV Music Awards for Best Score Conductor and Best Orchestrator.

Discography

With Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention

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Over-Nite Sensation ''Over-Nite Sensation'' is the ninth studio album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, released in September 1973. It was followed by Zappa's solo album ''Apostrophe (')'' (1974), which was recorded during the same sessions. Recording ...

'' – 1973 *'' Apostrophe (')'' – 1974 *''

Roxy & Elsewhere ''Roxy & Elsewhere '' is a double live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers, released on September 10, 1974. Most of the songs were recorded on December 8, 9 and 10, 1973 at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, California. Overview The material tak ...

'' – 1974 *''

Bongo Fury ''Bongo Fury'' is a collaborative album by American artists Frank Zappa and the Mothers, with Captain Beefheart, released in October 1975. The live portions were recorded on May 20 and 21, 1975, at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Te ...

'' – 1975 (Captain Beefheart appears on this album as well) *''

Zoot Allures ''Zoot Allures'' is the 22nd album by the American rock musician Frank Zappa, released in October 1976 and his only release on the Warner Bros. Records label. Due to a lawsuit with his former manager, Herb Cohen, Zappa's recording contract was te ...

'' – 1976 *''

Studio Tan ''Studio Tan'' is the 24th album by American musician Frank Zappa, first released in September 1978 on his own DiscReet Records label. It reached #147 on the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart in the United States. Recording sessions The basic tra ...

'' – 1978 *''

Sleep Dirt ''Sleep Dirt'' is an album by Frank Zappa released in January 1979, on his own DiscReet Records label. It reached #175 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart in the United States. Zappa's original title for the album was ''Hot Rats III''. As the ...

'' – 1979 *''

Orchestral Favorites ''Orchestral Favorites'' is an album by Frank Zappa first released in May 1979 on his own DiscReet Records label. The album is entirely instrumental and features music performed by the 37-piece Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. It r ...

'' – 1979 *''

You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 ''You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1'' is a double disc live album by Frank Zappa. It was released in 1988 (see 1988 in music) under the label Rykodisc. It was the beginning of a six-volume, 12-CD set Zappa assembled of live performances ...

'' – 1988 *''

Broadway the Hard Way ''Broadway the Hard Way '' is a live album by American musician Frank Zappa recorded at various performances along his 1988 world tour. It was first released as a 9-track vinyl album through Zappa's label Barking Pumpkin Records in October 1988, ...

'' – 1989 *''

The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life ''The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life'' is a double-disc live album by American musician Frank Zappa, released in 1991. The album was one of four to be recorded during the 1988 world tour, along with ''Broadway the Hard Way'', ''Make a Jaz ...

'' – 1991 *''

You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 ''You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4'' is a two-CD set of live recordings by Frank Zappa, recorded between 1969 and 1988, and released in 1991. Track listing All tracks written by Frank Zappa, except where noted. Personnel Musici ...

'' – 1991 *''

Make a Jazz Noise Here ''Make a Jazz Noise Here'' is a live double album by Frank Zappa. It was first released in June 1991, and was the third Zappa album to be compiled from recordings from his 1988 world tour, following ''Broadway the Hard Way'' (1988) and '' The Bes ...

'' – 1991 *''

Beat the Boots ''Beat the Boots!'' is a box set by Frank Zappa. Released in 1991 through Rhino Entertainment, the set contains legal reissues of eight bootleg recordings made between 1967 and 1982 and originally distributed illegally prior to this official relea ...

'' – 1992 **'' Unmitigated Audacity'' (rec. 1974) **''Piquantique'' (rec. 1973) *'' You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6'' – 1992 * ''

Strictly Commercial ''Strictly Commercial'' is a compilation album by Frank Zappa. It was released in 1995, two years after his death. The album was named as part of a 2011 lawsuit by Gail Zappa towards Rykodisc, claiming the label released several vault masters with ...

'' – 1995 *''

The Lost Episodes ''The Lost Episodes'' is a 1996 posthumous album by Frank Zappa which compiles (with the exception of "I Don't Want to Get Drafted" and "Any Way the Wind Blows") previously unreleased material. Much of the material covered dates from early in his ...

'' – 1996 *''

Läther ''Läther'' (, or "''Leather''") is the sixty-fifth official album by Frank Zappa. It was released posthumously as a three-CD set on Rykodisc in 1996. The album's title is derived from bits of comic dialog that link the songs. Zappa also explained ...

'' – 1996 *''

Have I Offended Someone? ''Have I Offended Someone?'' is a compilation album featuring music by Frank Zappa, and was posthumously released in 1997. As indicated by the title, it compiles a number of Zappa's songs that have gained notoriety as being particularly offensiv ...

'' – 1997 *'' Cheap Thrills'' – 1998 *'' Son of Cheap Thrills'' – 1999 *''

Imaginary Diseases ''Imaginary Diseases'' is an album of material by Frank Zappa from the Petit Wazoo tour of 1972. It is one of two finished CD projects from the tour containing material mastered by Zappa before his death. The name of the album is derived from a l ...

'' – 2006 *''

Trance-Fusion ''Trance-Fusion'' is an album by Frank Zappa. Released posthumously in 2006, 13 years after the musician's death, the album forms the third in a trilogy of instrumental albums which focus on Zappa's improvised guitar solos, after ''Shut Up 'n Play ...

'' – 2006 *'' Wazoo'' – 2007 *''

One Shot Deal ''One Shot Deal'' is an album by Frank Zappa, posthumously released in June 2008. Overview The track "Occam's Razor" is a guitar solo extract from a live version of the song "Inca Roads". The solo was used in the song "On the Bus" from the album ...

'' – 2008 *'' Road Tapes, Venue #2'' – 2013 *''

Roxy By Proxy ''Roxy by Proxy'' is a live album by Frank Zappa, recorded in December 1973 at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, California and released posthumously in March 2014 by The Zappa Family Trust on Zappa Records. History In September 1974, parts of ...

'' – 2014 *''

Roxy the Soundtrack ''Roxy the Soundtrack'' is the CD companion released in the ''Roxy: The Movie'', DVD/CD and Blu-ray/CD sets. The CD soundtrack is not sold separately. Background The film used to produce the movie was shot in 1973 using four cameras at five ...

'' – 2015 *'' The Crux Of The Biscuit'' – *'' The Roxy Performances'' – 2018 *'' Halloween 73'' – 2019 *''Zappa - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' – 2020 *''Zappa '88: The Last US Show'' – 2021

With Air Pocket/The Fowler Brothers

* 1976: ''Fly On'' (

East Wind An east wind is a wind that originates in the east and blows in a westward direction. This wind is referenced as symbolism in mythology, poetry and literature. In mythology In Greek mythology, Eurus, the east wind, was the only wind not associate ...

) *1985: ''Hunter'' *1988: ''Breakfast for Dinosaurs''

With Captain Beefheart

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Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) ''Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)'' is the tenth studio album by American band Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, released in October 1978 by Warner Bros. Records. The album emerged from production difficulties surrounding '' Bat Chain Puller' ...

'' – 1978 *''

Doc at the Radar Station ''Doc at the Radar Station'' is the eleventh studio album by American band Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, released in August 1980 by Virgin Records. Packaging The album cover was painted by Don Van Vliet. It was placed at number forty-nine ...

'' – 1980 *'' I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do: Live at My Father's Place 1978'' – 2000

With The Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band

*'' Farewell'' – 1980 *''

From Toshiko With Love ''From Toshiko With Love'' is the twelfth recording released by the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band (ninth studio recording). It was released in Japan by Victor Records and in the U.S. (under the title ''Tanuki's Night Out'') by Jaz ...

also released as Tanuki's Night Out'' – 1981 *''

European Memoirs ''European Memoirs'' (a.k.a. ''Memoir'' in Japan) is the tenth studio recording of the Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band. Akiyoshi was nominated for a 1983 Grammy award in the Best Instrumental Arrangement category for the arrangement ...

'' – 1982

Solo works

*''Synthetic Division''(with Phil Teele) – 1984 *''Ants Can Count'' – 1990 *''Entropy'' – 1993 *'' The Good Shepherd'' Soundtrack (with

Marcelo Zarvos Marcelo Uchoa Zarvos is a Brazilian pianist and composer. Life and career Zarvos was born in São Paulo. He began in classical music in his teens and studied at the Berklee College of Music. He is more known for jazz and had success with the al ...

– 2006 *''Inception'' – 2010

With Oingo Boingo

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Boingo Alive ''Boingo Alive'' is a double album by American new wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1988. It was performed and recorded live in a rehearsal studio with no audience, with the band performing songs from previous albums and two previously unrelea ...

'' – 1988 *''

Dark at the End of the Tunnel ''Dark at the End of the Tunnel'' is the seventh studio album by American new wave music, new wave band Oingo Boingo, released in 1990. Music ''Dark at the End of the Tunnel'' marked Oingo Boingo's move toward a more pure pop sound, eschewing th ...

'' – 1990

With Randy Newman

*'' Bad Love'' – 1999 *'' Harps & Angels'' – 2008

With other artists

*Stan Ridgway,''

The Big Heat ''The Big Heat'' is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by Fritz Lang starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Jocelyn Brando about a cop who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city. William P. McGivern's serial in ''The ...

'' – 1986 *

Ed Mann Ed Mann is a musician who has been "a drummer and piano dabbler since childhood." He is best known for his mallet percussion performances onstage with Frank Zappa's ensemble from 1977 to 1988, and his appearances on over 30 of Zappa's albums ...

, ''Perfect World'' – 1990 *

J.J. Cale John Weldon "J. J." Cale (December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013) was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and sound engineer. Though he avoided the limelight, his influence as a musical artist has been acknowledged by figures such as Mark Knop ...

and

Eric Clapton Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is often regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music. Clapton ranked second in ''Rolling Stone''s list of ...

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The Road to Escondido ''The Road to Escondido'' is a collaborative studio album by J. J. Cale and Eric Clapton. It was released on 7 November 2006. Contained on this album are the final recordings of keyboardist Billy Preston. The album is jointly dedicated to Pre ...

'' – 2006 * Avenged Sevenhold,''

Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold (abbreviated as A7X) is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. The band's current lineup consists of lead vocalist M. Shadows, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Zacky Vengeance, ...

'' – 2007 *

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Strange News From Mars ''Strange News from Mars'' is an album by Norwegian guitarist Jon Larsen. Review Larsen is a Norwegian string swing guitar virtuoso, and not the one we would suspect to record music inspired by Frank Zappa. This production is noteworthy for t ...

'' – 2007 *Stu Nevitt,''The Marion Kind'' – 2007

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fowler, Bruce Jazz fusion musicians American jazz trombonists Male trombonists American jazz composers American male conductors (music) University of North Texas alumni 1947 births Living people The Mothers of Invention members The Magic Band members The Plugz members 21st-century American conductors (music) 21st-century trombonists American male jazz composers Air Pocket (band) members