Napoleon murphy brock biography

Napoleon Murphy Brock (born April 23, 1943) is an.
Napoleon Murphy Brock is an American singer, saxophonist and flute player who is best known for his work with Frank Zappa in the 1970s, including the albums Apostrophe, Roxy & Elsewhere, One Size Fits All, and Bongo Fury.
Napoleon Murphy Brock is a singer, saxophonist and flute player discovered by Frank in Hawaii in 1973.

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Napoleon Murphy Brock

Napoleon Murphy Brock (nicknamed "Napi") had sung in church choirs from the age of five. At high school he played clarinet before taking to the saxophone. He gained experience from performing in orchestras, jazz bands and marching bands.

He was seen performing, in Hawaii, with his six piece band Gregarious Movement by Marty Perellis who informed Zappa that he had found a replacement for Sal Marquez. Zappa went to see him perform and asked to meet him. Brock had never heard of Zappa and declined Zappa's request that he join him on the about to start European tour not least because he, being a jazz fan, had admired the work of George Duke and Jean-Luc Ponty and was in awe of playing with them, and he also felt obliged to fulfil his contract in Hawaii. On his return from the tour Zappa invited him to rehearse with them.

He provided vocal, sax, flute, and/or keyboards on:

He can be seen on the Zappa movies:

He is interviewed in the documentaries The True Story Of 200 Motels and Frank Scheffer's Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die (

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Napoleon Murphy Brock is a singer, saxophonist and flute player discovered by Frank in Hawaii in 1973. The two worked together from 1973 to 1984.
As well as Balls, his solo album of all original material that featured Chester Thompson and Mike Keneally, Napoleon has also cut a few other non-Zappa tracks ‘after Frank’ – notably, Arthur Brown’s Fire (on The Great Un-American Songbook: Volume II by The Ed Palermo Big Band) and covers of Todd Rundgren’s Don’t You Ever Learn? (on ANT-BEE’s Electronic Church Muzik) and Emperor Of The Highway (on The Adventures Of Zodd Zundgren, also by The Ed Palermo Big Band).
Napoleon plays on many of the ‘classic’ mid-1970s Zappa albums, provides background vocals on Sheik Yerbouti (1979)[i], sings on Thing-Fish (1984), appears in the home videos A Token Of His Extreme (2013) and Roxy–The Movie (2015), and can be heard on the posthumous releases FZ:OZ (2002), One Shot Deal (2008), Joe’s Menage (2008), Joe’s Camouf

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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