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Studio album with live elements by Frank Zappa
Released November 15, 1986
Recorded 1985–1986
Studio UMRK (Los Angeles) (except `St. Etienne`: May 28, 1982 at Palais des Sports, Saint-Étienne, France)
Genre
Electronicexperimentalcomputer music
Length 34:26
Label
Barking Pumpkin (US)EMI (UK)
Producer Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa chronology
The Old Masters Box II
(1986) Jazz from Hell
(1986) London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. II
(1987)

Jazz from Hell is an instrumental album whose selections were all composed and recorded by American musician Frank Zappa. It was released on November 15, 1986, by Barking Pumpkin Records on vinyl and cassette, and in 1987 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 (1994) was completed shortly before his death.

Two music videos were made for the album: `Night School"s video featured clips from the making of his 1971 film 200 Motels, and `G-Spot Tornado"s video featured footage Zappa shot in the early 1960s at a county fair.

Background
Frank Zappa explained that the album title was a political reference: `Things in America can be from hell. Right now we have a president from hell (Ronald Reagan), and a National Security Council from hell, so we should add Jazz from Hell also.`[1] 1987`s Video from Hell, in which the quote is featured, is titled similarly.

All compositions were executed by Frank Zappa on the Synclavier DMS with the exception of `St. Etienne`, a guitar solo excerpted from a live performance Zappa gave of `Drowning Witch` from his Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch album, during a concert in Saint-Étienne, France, on his 1982 tour.

`While You Were Art II` is a Synclavier performance based on a transcription of Zappa`s improvised guitar solo on the track `While You Were Out` from the album Shut Up `n Play Yer Guitar (1981). The unreleased original Synclavier performance was done using only the unit`s FM synthesis, while the recording found here was Zappa`s `deluxe` arrangement featuring newer samples and timbres.

`Night School` was possibly named for a late-night show that Zappa pitched to ABC; the network did not pick it up.

`G-Spot Tornado`, assumed by Zappa to be impossible to play by humans, would be performed by Ensemble Modern on the concert recording The Yellow Shark (1993).

Track listing
The music to all selections was composed, and all selections were arranged, by Frank Zappa.

Side one
No. Title Length
1. `Night School` 4:47
2. `The Beltway Bandits` 3:25
3. `While You Were Art II` 7:17
4. `Jazz from Hell` 2:58
Side two
No. Title Length
5. `G-Spot Tornado` 3:17
6. `Damp Ankles` 3:45
7. `St. Etienne` 6:26
8. `Massaggio Galore` 2:31
Total length: 34:26
Personnel
Frank Zappa – lead guitar, Synclavier, keyboards, production
On `St. Etienne`

Steve Vai – rhythm guitar
Ray White – rhythm guitar
Tommy Mars – keyboards
Bobby Martin – keyboards
Scott Thunes – bass guitar
Chad Wackerman – drums
Ed Mann – percussion
Technical personnel

Greg Gorman – cover photo
Bob Rice – computer assistant
Bob Stone – engineering