''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 live shows performed on December 8, 9 and 10 (early and late shows on the 9th and 10th). What wasn't known at the time was due to a malfunction the audio and video were recorded out of sync. As John Albanian discusses in the liner notes, the problem was such that not until today's technology could the issue be painstakingly resolved. This is the third time around for the music from the Roxy shows. In 1974 '' Roxy & Elsewhere'' released some of the tracks from these shows and a few others. Then the 2014 ''Roxy by Proxy'' release made available more tracks exclusively from the December dates and all different from any on the previous release. This release represents those used in the movie, except tracks 8, 13, 14 & 16.

Track listing

All songs composed by Frank Zappa

Personnel

*Frank Zappa - lead guitar, vocals, percussion * Ruth Underwood - percussion *Ralph Humphrey - drums, percussion *

George Duke George M. Duke (January 12, 1946 – August 5, 2013) was an American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. He worked with numerous artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and as a pr ...

- keyboards, synthesizer, vocals * Tom Fowler - bass * Bruce Fowler - trombone, dancing (?) * Napoleon Murphy Brock - tenor sax, flute, lead vocals *

Chester Thompson Chester Cortez Thompson (born December 11, 1948) is an American drummer best known for his tenures with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Weather Report, Santana, the progressive rock band Genesis and Phil Collins as a solo artist. Thomp ...

- drums

Sources

*A little over 21 hours of picture and sound shot in December 1973

References

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{{Authority control Frank Zappa albums 2015 albums Albums published posthumously