Bruce Fowler
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Bruce Lambourne Fowler is a prominent American trombone player and composer. He notably played trombone on many Frank Zappa records, as well as with Captain Beefheart, and in the Fowler Brothers Band. Currently, he composes and arranges music for movies, and has been the composer, orchestrator, or conductor for many popular films.
Bruce is the son of jazz educator William L. Fowler and the brother of multi-instrumentalist Walt Fowler and bassist Tom Fowler. He is the father of Rhea Fowler, bass guitar player for The Naturals. Bruce Fowler is participating in both The Band From Utopia, and Jon Larsen's, Strange News From Mars, both feat. Zappa alumni Tommy Mars, Arthur Barrow, et al.
Fowler is the recipient of the 2007 Film & TV Music Awards for Best Score Conductor and Best Orchestrator.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] With Frank Zappa
- Over-Nite Sensation - 1973
- Apostrophe (') - 1974
- Roxy & Elsewhere - 1974
- Bongo Fury - 1975 (Captain Beefheart appears on this album as well)
- Studio Tan - 1978
- Sleep Dirt - 1979
- You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 - 1988
- Broadway the Hard Way - 1989
- The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life - 1991
- You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 - 1991
- Make a Jazz Noise Here - 1991
- Beat the Boots - 1992
- Unmitigated Audacity - 1974
- Piquantique - 1973
- You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 - 1992
- Imaginary Diseases - 2006
- Trance-Fusion - 2006
- Wazoo - 2007
[edit] With Captain Beefheart
- Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) - 1978
- Doc at the Radar Station - 1980
- I’m Going To Do What I Wanna Do: Live at My Father’s Place 1978 - 2000
[edit] With Eric Clapton
- The Road to Escondido - 2006
[edit] Solo works
- Entropy - 1995
- Synthetic Division - 1995
- Ants Can Count - 1995
[edit] External links
- Bruce Fowler at the Fowler Brothers home page
- Bruce Fowler at Allmusic
- Bruce Fowler at the Internet Movie Database
