Ian Underwood
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Known forSound
GenderMale
Birthday22 May 1939 (87 years old)
Place of birthNew York City, New York
Known credits21
Biography
Ian Robertson Underwood (born May 22, 1939) is a woodwind and keyboards player, who was a member of the original version of Frank Zappa's band the Mothers of Invention. Following the original band's split in late 1969, Underwood continued to work with Zappa extensively during the 1970s. Underwood graduated from The Choate School in 1957 and Yale University with a bachelor's degree in composition in 1961 and a master's degree in composition at UC Berkeley in 1966. He began his career by playing San Francisco Bay Area coffeehouses and bars with his improvisational group, the Jazz Mice, in the m…
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention: Live at Whisky a Go Go 1968
2024
Zappa
2020 · Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
2016 · Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
2014 · Self
Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List
2010 · Himself
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007 · Self
Apocalypto
2006 · Musician
Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note
2002 · Self
Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die
2000 · Self
Classic Albums
1997 · Self
Braveheart
1995 · Musician
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988 · Self
Video from Hell
1987 · Self
Uncle Meat
1987 · Self
Commando
1985 · Musician
Police Academy
1984 · Musician
The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
1981 · Original Music Composer
The Driver
1978 · Musician
Frank Zappa: Opopoppa Stockholm, Sweden
1973
200 Motels
1971 · Member of Mothers of Invention
200 Motels
1971 · Musician
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
1969 · Self
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