Napoleon Murphy Brock

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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 1 Discography 1.1 Solo albums 1.2 Appearances on Zappa albums 2 External links

[edit] Discography

[edit] Solo albums

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

[edit] Appearances on Zappa albums

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

[edit] External links

• Official Napoleon Murphy Brock website
• Napoleon Murphy Brock at the Internet Movie Database
• Napoleon Murphy Brock at the All Music Guide