Don Preston

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Analog Heaven #6 00:00 Tools
Homage To Tinguley 00:00 Tools
On The Throne Of Saturn 00:00 Tools
Electronic Music 00:00 Tools
Andrea 00:00 Tools
Palmer Park 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #1 00:00 Tools
The Donkey 00:00 Tools
The Eternal Question 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #2 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #4 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #3 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #7 00:00 Tools
Bannon Call 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #5 00:00 Tools
Moon Unit 00:00 Tools
For Love of Bach 00:00 Tools
Further On Up The Road 00:00 Tools
Walking BatterieWoman 00:00 Tools
The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque 00:00 Tools
The Eye of Agamoto 00:00 Tools
Electronic Music - 1967 00:00 Tools
Ode to the Flower Maiden 00:00 Tools
The Street Urchins 00:00 Tools
The Heart I Broke Was Mine 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #7 - 1975 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #1 - 1975 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #2 - 1975 00:00 Tools
Inner Blues (Not a Blues) 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #5 - 1975 00:00 Tools
The Lind Sonata 00:00 Tools
Transformation 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #3 - 1975 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #4 - 1975 00:00 Tools
Construction In Slow Motion With Sharp Interludes 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven #6 - 1975 00:00 Tools
The Prehistoric Eons 00:00 Tools
Death Lights 00:00 Tools
Fred & Me 00:00 Tools
Fred & Me (1982) 00:00 Tools
I Love You 00:00 Tools
This Is Don Preston 00:00 Tools
Immaculate Deception 00:00 Tools
Fred & Me - 1982 00:00 Tools
Love Ends (Excerpt) 00:00 Tools
Sweet 15 00:00 Tools
Horta Babies 00:00 Tools
Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque 00:00 Tools
“Oh my God – this is Germany!” 00:00 Tools
Fantasia / Stravinskij vs. Bill Evans 00:00 Tools
Lady Queen Bee 00:00 Tools
Trapezoid 00:00 Tools
Loki (The Thrones Of Saturn) 00:00 Tools
Blue Suede Shoes 00:00 Tools
Meredith Monk 00:00 Tools
Buzz Gardner was in the band 00:00 Tools
Blood Diner 00:00 Tools
Short People 00:00 Tools
Escape #1 00:00 Tools
Frank Zappa’s metamorphosis / Roweena – the first hippie ever / More auditions for Zappa / In the Mothers 00:00 Tools
Silicone Hump 00:00 Tools
Royal Albert Hall / Terry Gilliam 00:00 Tools
Improvisations / Hand signals / Total wildness / I rest my case 00:00 Tools
Aegospotamos 00:00 Tools
Writing music 00:00 Tools
Breaking up of the Mothers Of Invention / Psychedelia 00:00 Tools
I wasn’t drafted / Audition for the Army Band 00:00 Tools
Detroit / Jamsessions at home / Buzz and Bunk / First audion for Zappa 00:00 Tools
Homage To FZ 00:00 Tools
Escape #3 00:00 Tools
Escape #2 00:00 Tools
Back in Detroit / The West Inn / Tommy Flannagan, Elvin Jones and Yusef Lateef / Moving to LA / Herb Cohen’s Unicorn 00:00 Tools
Looking For My Baby 00:00 Tools
Introductions 00:00 Tools
Walking Batterie Woman 00:00 Tools
Baby It's You 00:00 Tools
We’re Only In It For The Money / Cal Shenkel / Don’s authentic audio from the Time/Life photosession 00:00 Tools
Hommage to Frank Zappa / Additional guitar players / The second group / John Lennon sits in 00:00 Tools
Jamsessions / The Italian benzadrine inhaler / Bass 00:00 Tools
Medulla Oblongata 00:00 Tools
Ode To Tinguely 00:00 Tools
Of No Consequence 00:00 Tools
The Bride Stripped Bare 00:00 Tools
Further on Up the Road [#] 00:00 Tools
Opening Titles 00:00 Tools
Preparations for a new Zappa tour / The amazing Ruth Underwood / Terry’s underpants 00:00 Tools
Do What You Want 00:00 Tools
Carla and Paul Bley / The amazing owl 00:00 Tools
Opus 5 00:00 Tools
The Grandmothers / Sandro Oliva / The Black Tour From Hell 00:00 Tools
Escape #4 00:00 Tools
200 Motels / Ringo the drummer / Uncle Meet / Using the chicken to measure it / “The most discusting thing I’ve seen in my entire life” 00:00 Tools
Understanding 00:00 Tools
Escape #5 00:00 Tools
Why Do Things Happen To Me 00:00 Tools
I Can't Breathe 00:00 Tools
The Cherubim (edit) 00:00 Tools
Escape #6 00:00 Tools
Farther Up The Road 00:00 Tools
With the Turtles / Ominous signs / The fire in Geneva / Zappa pushed down from the stage / Tivoli Gardens 00:00 Tools
Bass vs. piano 00:00 Tools
Boogie Woogie Woman 00:00 Tools
Blood Diner (Main Titles) 00:00 Tools
Escape #7 00:00 Tools
The Alien Carla Bley / The Escalator / Steve Swallow 00:00 Tools
Early electronic music 00:00 Tools
Instant theatre 00:00 Tools
The chattering teeth / Music for video games 00:00 Tools
A taxi trip on acid 00:00 Tools
Come On In My Kitchen 00:00 Tools
New Age Mumbo Jumbo (edited remix) 00:00 Tools
Escape #8 00:00 Tools
Skid Row Blues 00:00 Tools
Found 00:00 Tools
Read Me My Rights 00:00 Tools
The Don And Bunk Show 00:00 Tools
Was Black 00:00 Tools
Amsterdam 00:00 Tools
How Are You Doing, Really? 00:00 Tools
18 - Don Preston - 1987 - Blood Diner 00:00 Tools
The Winds Of Change 00:00 Tools
The Street Urchins 2 00:00 Tools
I Found Love 00:00 Tools
Eyes of the Dead 00:00 Tools
Sugaree 00:00 Tools
Shake Your Money Maker 00:00 Tools
Prologue to Gary's Walk 00:00 Tools
The Mothers Of Invention – the most exciting time of my life. 00:00 Tools
Un Gawa 00:00 Tools
Inner Blues 00:00 Tools
Part 1 [Alien] 00:00 Tools
Primeval #7 00:00 Tools
Loki 00:00 Tools
Part 2 [Alien] 00:00 Tools
Eye Of Agamoto 00:00 Tools
Tvashtar 00:00 Tools
Sweet Fifteen 00:00 Tools
Part 3 [Alien] 00:00 Tools
Walk to the Ocean 00:00 Tools
Progress 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven, Pt. 6 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven, Pt. 5 00:00 Tools
Analog Heaven, Pt. 3 00:00 Tools
Found Again 00:00 Tools
A Private Lesson 00:00 Tools
Favourite composers / Echoplex / Electronic music for children / Composing for the movie business 00:00 Tools
New Age Mumbo Jumbo - Edited Remix 00:00 Tools
Relentless Pursuit - Live 00:00 Tools
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Donald Ward Preston Preston is an American rock and roll musician born on September 21, 1932 in Flint, Michigan. He was born into a family of musicians and began studying music at an early age. His father was the composer-in-residence for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Preston later did a stint in the army, serving in Trieste, Italy. Upon his return to Detroit during the early '50s, Preston associated with pianist Tommy Flanagan. He also sat in with Elvin Jones and others at the city's West End Cafe where Yusef Lateef conducted twice-a-week jam sessions with Milt Jackson's brother, bassist Ollie Jackson. Preston moved to Los Angeles in 1957 where he hooked up with pianist Paul Bley, bassist Charlie Haden, and others who were hearing jazz in new ways. Many recognize Preston from his long collaboration with Frank Zappa as the keyboardist and one of the members of the original Mothers of Invention. Preston performed and recorded with Zappa until 1974. He is a co-founder of the Grande Mothers and still active with the band, completing an extensive tour in Summer-Fall 2000 and later tours through til 2008. Often compared to Cecil Taylor for his style of attacking the keys with intense passion, Preston’s solos also reflect intellect, technical skills and a storyteller's way with a line. His playing, like his compositions, ranges across panoramas of mood and emotion, all colored with the freedom that comes from possessing remarkable facility. He also has scored more than 20 feature film scores and 14 plays. He's the winner of numerous awards, and has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and London Philharmonic. Known to jazz and keyboard aficionados for his pioneering contributions in the use of synthesizers and piano, legendary clarinetist and composer John Carter dubbed Don Preston the "father of modern synthesis." Don has performed with artists like: Frank Zappa, Lou Rawls, Al Jarreau, Nat King Cole, Billy Daniels, Johnnie Ray, Vaughn Monroe, Connie Francis, Herbie Mann, Elvin Jones, Charlie Haden, Art Davis, Paul Bley, Carla Bley, Joe Beck, Shorty Rogers, Leo Sayer, Charles Lloyd, Nelson Riddle, J.R. Montrose, Flo and Eddie (Howard Kaylan & Mark Volman of The Turtles) Yusef Lateef, Don Ellis, Meredith Monk, Bobby Bradford, Michael Mantler, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. In 2002, Don Preston joined forces with fellow M.O.I. Roy Estrada, and Napoleon Murphy Brock, from 3 very different legacies of Frank Zappa alumni along with guitarist Ken Rosser, and drummer/percussionist Christopher Garcia to form the Grande Mothers Re:Invented. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.