- Known For
- Sound
- Born
- May 22, 1939
- Place of Birth
- New York City, New York
Ian Underwood
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 mid-1960s before he became a member of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in 1967 for their third studio album, We're Only in It for the Money. He speaks on Uncle Meat; on the track "Ian Underwood Whips It Out" he relates how he first met Zappa and demonstrated his capabilities on the saxophone…
Filmography
movieFrank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention: Live at Whisky a Go Go 1968
2024
movieZappa
2020 · Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975
movieEat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
2016 · Self (archive footage)
movieFrank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
2014 · Self
movieFrank Zappa: The Freak Out List
2010 · Himself
movieClassic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007 · Self
movieApocalypto
2006 · Musician
Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note
2002 · Self
Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die
2000 · Self
tvClassic Albums
1997 · Self
movieBraveheart
1995 · Musician
movieThe True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988 · Self
movieVideo from Hell
1987 · Self
movieUncle Meat
1987 · Self
movieCommando
1985 · Musician
moviePolice Academy
1984 · Musician
movieThe Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
1981 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Driver
1978 · Musician
movieFrank Zappa: Opopoppa Stockholm, Sweden
1973
movie200 Motels
1971 · Member of Mothers of Invention, Musician
movieBurnt Weeny Sandwich
1969 · Self