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studio album with live elements by Frank Zappa

Jazz from Hell is an instrumental album whose selections were all composed and recorded by American musician Frank Zappa.

It was released in November , by Barking Pumpkin Records on vinyl and cassette, and in by Rykodisc on CD.

Jazz from Hell was Zappa's final studio album released in his lifetime; for the remaining seven years of his life, he would only release live concert albums, although the posthumous Civilization Phaze III () was completed shortly before his death.

Zappa produced music videos for the songs "G-Spot Tornado" and "Night School". "G-Spot Tornado" features footage he shot in at a county fair, as well as some footage of Captain Beefheart and his family.^[1] "Night School" is a clay animation piece by Bruce Bickford.^[2]

Background

Frank Zappa explained that the album title was a political reference: "Things in America can be from hell.

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