Editing Frank Zappa (section)

===Acclaim and honors===
{{Quote box|quote=Frank Zappa was one of the first to try tearing down the barriers between rock, jazz, and classical music. In the late Sixties his Mothers of Invention would slip from [[Stravinsky]]'s "[[Petrushka (ballet)|Petroushka]]" into [[The Dovells]]' "[[Bristol Stomp]]" before breaking down into saxophone squeals inspired by [[Albert Ayler]]|source= — ''The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll'', p. 497|width=365px}}

''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'' (2004) writes: "Frank Zappa dabbled in virtually all kinds of music—and, whether guised as a satirical rocker, jazz-rock fusionist, guitar virtuoso, electronics wizard, or orchestral innovator, his eccentric genius was undeniable."<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Brackett|editor-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition|date=2004|place=New York|publisher=Fireside|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/903 903]|isbn=978-0-7432-0169-8|url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/903}}</ref> Even though his work drew inspiration from many different genres, Zappa was seen as establishing a coherent and personal expression. In 1980, biographer David Walley noted that "The whole structure of his music is unified, not neatly divided by dates or time sequences and it is all building into a composite".<ref name="walley80"/>{{rp|3}} On commenting on Zappa's music, politics and philosophy, [[Barry Miles]] noted in 2004 that they cannot be separated: "It was all one; all part of his 'conceptual continuity'."<ref name="miles"/>{{rp|383}}
[[File:Zappa.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Zappa in 1977]]
''[[Guitar Player]]'' devoted a special issue to Zappa in 1992, and asked on the cover "Is FZ America's Best Kept Musical Secret?" Editor Don Menn remarked that the issue was about "The most important composer to come out of modern popular music".<ref>{{cite book |first=Don|last=Menn|editor-last=Menn|editor-first=Don|contribution=From the Editor|title=Zappa! Guitar Player Presents|date=1992|page=3|place=San Francisco, CA|publisher=Miller Freeman|issn=1063-4533}}</ref> Among those contributing to the issue was composer and [[musicologist]] [[Nicolas Slonimsky]], who conducted premiere performances of works of [[Charles Ives|Ives]] and Varèse in the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kozinn|first=Allan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/27/books/nicolas-slonimsky-author-of-widely-used-reference-works-on-musicdies-at-101.html |title=Nicolas Slonimsky, Author of Widely Used Reference Works on Music, Dies at 101|date=December 27, 1996|newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=August 17, 2008}}</ref> He became friends with Zappa in the 1980s,<ref>In December 1981, the then 87-year-old Slonimsky made a guest appearance on piano at a Zappa concert. Miles, 2004, ''Frank Zappa'', pp.&nbsp;295–296.</ref> and said, "I admire everything Frank does, because he practically created the new musical millennium. He does beautiful, beautiful work&nbsp;... It has been my luck to have lived to see the emergence of this totally new type of music."<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Menn|editor-first=Don|contribution=Nicolas Slonimsky – The Century's Preeminent Lexicographer Nails Zappa Down|title=Zappa! Guitar Player Presents|date=1992|pages=6–7|place=San Francisco, CA|publisher=Miller Freeman|issn=1063-4533}}</ref> Conductor [[Kent Nagano]] remarked in the same issue that "Frank is a genius. That's a word I don't use often&nbsp;... In Frank's case it is not too strong&nbsp;... He is extremely literate musically. I'm not sure if the general public knows that."<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Menn|editor-first=Don|contribution=Kent Nagano – Premiering Zappa with the London Symphony Orchestra|title=Zappa! Guitar Player Presents|date=1992|pages=8–11|place=San Francisco, CA|publisher=Miller Freeman|issn=1063-4533}}</ref> [[Pierre Boulez]] told ''[[Musician (magazine)|Musician]]'' magazine's posthumous Zappa tribute article that Zappa "was an exceptional figure because he was part of the worlds of rock and classical music and that both types of his work would survive."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Frank Zappa |last=Isler |first=Scott |date=February 1994 |magazine=[[Musician (magazine)|Musician]] |via=afka.net |url=https://www.afka.net/Mags/Musician.htm#1994Feb}}</ref> In 1994, jazz magazine ''[[DownBeat]]''{{'}}s critics poll placed Zappa in its Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=720 |title=1994 Down Beat Critics Poll |publisher=Down Beat Magazine |access-date=August 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216121831/http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=720 |archive-date=February 16, 2009}}</ref> Zappa was posthumously inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 1995. There, it was written that "Frank Zappa was rock and roll's sharpest musical mind and most astute social critic. He was the most prolific composer of his age, and he bridged genres—rock, jazz, classical, avant-garde and even novelty music—with masterful ease".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rockhall.com/inductees/frank-zappa|title=Frank Zappa|publisher=The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.|access-date=August 14, 2008}}</ref> He was ranked number 36 on [[VH1]]'s ''100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock''<ref name="youtube.com"/> in 2000. In 2005, the U.S. [[National Recording Preservation Board]] included ''We're Only in It for the Money'' in the [[National Recording Registry]] as "Frank Zappa's inventive and iconoclastic album presents a unique political stance, both anti-conservative and anti-counterculture, and features a scathing satire on hippiedom and America's reactions to it".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/registry/nrpb-2005reg.html|title=The National Recording Registry 2005|date=May 24, 2005|series=National Recording Preservation Board|publisher=The Library of Congress|access-date=August 18, 2008}}</ref> The same year, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine ranked him at No.&nbsp;71 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.<ref name="RSImmortals">{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/frank-zappa-20110420|title=100 Greatest Artists|publisher=Rolling Stone Music|access-date=May 1, 2013|date=December 3, 2010|archive-date=November 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123114608/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/frank-zappa-20110420|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2011, he was ranked at No.&nbsp;22 on the list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by the same magazine.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/frank-zappa-20111122|title=45 Frank Zappa|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=June 4, 2011|archive-date=December 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202023857/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/frank-zappa-20111122|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2016, ''[[Guitar World]]'' magazine placed Zappa atop its list of "15 of the best progressive rock guitarists through the years."<ref>{{cite web|access-date=December 12, 2020|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news-artist-lists/15-prog-rocks-best-guitarists-through-years/29666|date= September 1, 2016 |title=15 of Prog-Rock's Best Guitarists Through the Years |website=[[Guitar World]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160902131114/http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news-artist-lists/15-prog-rocks-best-guitarists-through-years/29666|archive-date=September 2, 2016}}</ref> The street of [[Partinico]] where his father lived at number 13, Via Zammatà, has been renamed to Via Frank Zappa.<ref>{{cite news |last=Zoppi |first=Maurizio |date=November 29, 2012 |title=La famiglia di Frank Zappa a Partinico alla riscoperta delle origini del chitarrista |url=https://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/palermo/notizie/spettacoli/2012/29-novembre-2012/famiglia-frank-zappa-partinicoalla-riscoperta-origini-chitarrista-2112935208190.shtml |work=[[Corriere della Sera]] |location=[[Palermo]], Italy |trans-title=Frank Zappa's family in Partinico rediscovering the guitarist's origins |access-date=December 30, 2017 |language=it}}</ref> Since his death, several musicians have been considered by critics as filling the artistic niche left behind by Zappa, in view of their prolific output, eclecticism and other qualities, including [[Devin Townsend]],<ref>{{cite web|access-date=December 12, 2020|url=https://metalinjection.net/reviews/album-review-devin-townsend-empath|date=March 29, 2019 |title=Album Review: DEVIN TOWNSEND Empath|website=[[Metal Injection]]|first=Jordan |last=Blum|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331202634/https://metalinjection.net/reviews/album-review-devin-townsend-empath|archive-date=March 31, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=December 12, 2020|url=https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/devin_townsend_the_issue_i_have_with_frank_zappa.html|date=March 10, 2017 |title=Devin Townsend: The Issue I Have With Frank Zappa|website=[[Ultimate Guitar]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311042952/https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/devin_townsend_the_issue_i_have_with_frank_zappa.html|archive-date=March 11, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=December 12, 2020|url=https://louderthanwar.com/devin-townsend-order-of-magnitude-empath-live-volume-1-album-review/|date=October 19, 2020|title=Devin Townsend: Order Of Magnitude – Empath Live Volume 1 – album review|first= Gareth |last=Allen |website=[[Louder Than War (website)|Louder Than War]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=December 12, 2020|url=https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2016/09/06/devin-townsend-project-expect-the-unexpected|date=September 6, 2016|title=Devin Townsend Project: Expect the unexpected|first=Jason|last=Ferguson|website=[[Orlando Weekly]]|archive-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116093625/https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2016/09/06/devin-townsend-project-expect-the-unexpected|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Mike Patton]]<ref name="wire">{{cite magazine|title=Mike Patton {{!}} Fantômas hysteria|magazine=[[The Wire (magazine)|The Wire]]|date=April 2005 |first=Phil |last=Freeman|number=254}}</ref><ref name="questionnaire">{{cite web|access-date=December 12, 2020|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/mike_patton-fantomas|date=April 1, 2005|title=Mike Patton {{!}} The Exclaim! Questionnaire|website=[[Exclaim!]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907115121/http://exclaim.ca/music/article/mike_patton-fantomas|archive-date=September 7, 2017}}</ref><ref name="prog">{{cite web|access-date=December 12, 2020|url= https://classicrock.net/mike-patton-prog/|date=March 7, 2014|title=Mike Patton – Prog?|first=Raziq |last=Rauf |website=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]] |location=Germany|language=de|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812003551/https://classicrock.net/mike-patton-prog/|archive-date=August 12, 2020}}</ref> and [[Omar Rodríguez-López]].<ref>{{cite web|access-date=December 12, 2020|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/21595-omar-rodrguez-lpez-albums-ipecac-review-7-12-mars-volta-at-the-drive-in|date=January 19, 2017 |title=Omar Rodríguez-López |first=Timothy |last=Archer|website=[[The Quietus]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=December 12, 2020|url=https://imposemagazine.com/music/omar-rodriguez-lopez-and-i-was-totally-destroying-it |date=2011|title=Reviews: Omar Rodriguez Lopez + I Was Totally Destroying It|website=[[Impose (magazine)|Impose]]|first=Anthony Mark |last=Happel}}</ref>

====Grammy Awards====
In the course of his career, Zappa was nominated for nine competitive [[Grammy Award]]s, which resulted in two wins (one posthumous). In 1998, he received the [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/frank-zappa|title=Frank Zappa &#124; Artist|website=grammy.com|date=May 19, 2020 |publisher=[[The Recording Academy]]|access-date=June 11, 2020}}</ref>
{{awards table}}
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|rowspan="2"| [[22nd Annual Grammy Awards|1980]] || "[[Rat Tomago]]" || [[Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance|Best Rock Instrumental Performance]] || {{nom}}
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| "[[Dancin' Fool]]" || [[Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance|Best Male Rock Vocal Performance]] || {{nom}}
|-
| [[25th Annual Grammy Awards|1983]] || "[[Valley Girl (song)|Valley Girl]]" || [[Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal|Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal]] || {{nom}}
|-
| [[27th Annual Grammy Awards|1985]] || ''[[Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger|The Perfect Stranger]]'' || [[Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition|Best New Classical Composition]] || {{nom}}
|-
|rowspan="2"| [[30th Annual Grammy Awards|1988]] || "Jazz from Hell" || [[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition|Best Instrumental Composition]] || {{nom}}
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| ''[[Jazz from Hell]]'' ||rowspan="2"| [[Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance|Best Rock Instrumental Performance (Orchestra, Group or Soloist)]] || {{won}}
|-
| [[31st Annual Grammy Awards|1989]] || ''[[Guitar (Frank Zappa album)|Guitar]]'' || {{nom}}
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| [[32nd Annual Grammy Awards|1990]] || ''[[Broadway the Hard Way]]'' || [[Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album|Best Musical Cast Show Album]] || {{nom}}
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| [[38th Annual Grammy Awards|1996]] || ''[[Civilization Phaze III]]'' || [[Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package|Best Recording Package – Boxed]] || {{won}}
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| [[39th Annual Grammy Awards|1997]] || Frank Zappa || [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award|Lifetime Achievement Award]] || {{won|Honored}}
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