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alt="Underwood playing at a Frank Zappa concert, c. 1975" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Ruth_Underwood.jpg/240px-Ruth_Underwood.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="189" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Ruth_Underwood.jpg/360px-Ruth_Underwood.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Ruth_Underwood.jpg/480px-Ruth_Underwood.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1008" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Underwood playing at a Frank Zappa concert, c. 1975</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Birth name</span></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Ruth Komanoff</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1946-05-23</span>) </span>23 May 1946<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 78)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jazz-rock" class="mw-redirect" title="Jazz-rock">Jazz-rock</a>/<a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Musician" title="Musician">Musician</a>, <a href="/wiki/Composer" title="Composer">composer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instrument(s)</th><td class="infobox-data note"><a href="/wiki/Xylophone" title="Xylophone">Xylophone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marimba" title="Marimba">marimba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vibraphone" title="Vibraphone">vibraphone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Piano" title="Piano">piano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Synthesizer" title="Synthesizer">synthesizer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1967–1982</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Philips_Records" title="Philips Records">Philips Records</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bell_Records" title="Bell Records">Bell Records</a>, <a href="/wiki/DiscReet_Records" title="DiscReet Records">DiscReet Records</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Ruth Underwood</b> (born <b>Ruth Komanoff</b>; May 23, 1946) is an American musician best known for playing <a href="/wiki/Xylophone" title="Xylophone">xylophone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marimba" title="Marimba">marimba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vibraphone" title="Vibraphone">vibraphone</a>, and other <a href="/wiki/Percussion" class="mw-redirect" title="Percussion">percussion</a> instruments in <a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa_and_the_Mothers_of_Invention" class="mw-redirect" title="Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention">Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention</a>. She collaborated with the Mothers of Invention from 1968 to 1977. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruth_Underwood&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Underwood began her music training in the classical tradition, studying both at <a href="/wiki/Ithaca_College" title="Ithaca College">Ithaca College</a> under Warren Benson<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and at <a href="/wiki/Juilliard_School" title="Juilliard School">Juilliard</a> under <a href="/wiki/Saul_Goodman_(percussionist)" title="Saul Goodman (percussionist)">Saul Goodman</a> (timpani) and Morris Goldenberg (percussion).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout 1967, she kept a regular attendance at the <a href="/wiki/Garrick_Cinema" title="Garrick Cinema">Garrick Theater</a> in New York City when Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention were the resident band. This resulted in her association with Zappa, beginning in December 1967.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Oh, I was probably one of those rather stiff people from the suburbs – I think some of us did understand, and we kept coming back for more, and more, and more. I remember being very upset when they finally finished their stint at the Garrick Theatre and went back to L.A. I felt as if the real heart had gone out of New York City, and I had to get back on with my conservatory music training life, which seemed very dull after this.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In May 1969 she married keyboardist/saxophonist <a href="/wiki/Ian_Underwood" title="Ian Underwood">Ian Underwood</a>, a fellow Zappa musician. They divorced in 1986. Professionally she used both her birth name, Ruth Komanoff, and her <a href="/wiki/Married_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Married name">married name</a>. </p><p>Underwood performed in more than 30 recordings with Zappa or Mothers. Examples of her virtuosity can be heard on tracks including the "Rollo Interior interlude" from "St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast" on the <i><a href="/wiki/Apostrophe_(%27)" title="Apostrophe (')">Apostrophe (')</a></i> album (1974). Other work is documented on <i><a href="/wiki/Roxy_%26_Elsewhere" title="Roxy & Elsewhere">Roxy & Elsewhere</a></i> (1974) and on "<a href="/wiki/Inca_Roads_(song)" title="Inca Roads (song)">Inca Roads</a>", the opening track on <i><a href="/wiki/One_Size_Fits_All_(Frank_Zappa_album)" title="One Size Fits All (Frank Zappa album)">One Size Fits All</a></i> (1975). Underwood can be heard (though not seen) in the soundtrack of the Zappa movie <i><a href="/wiki/200_Motels" title="200 Motels">200 Motels</a></i> (1971),<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <i>Dub Room Special</i> DVD (1982),<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which includes performances from the KCET Special <i>A Token Of His Extreme</i>. She also features in the film of the Roxy performances (2015).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1970s, Underwood collaborated in <a href="/wiki/Session_musician" title="Session musician">recording sessions</a> for a small number of other performers, most notably with the band <a href="/wiki/Ambrosia_(band)" title="Ambrosia (band)">Ambrosia</a>, composer <a href="/wiki/Jasun_Martz" title="Jasun Martz">Jasun Martz</a>, and jazz keyboardist <a href="/wiki/George_Duke" title="George Duke">George Duke</a>, the last also a veteran of Zappa's bands.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Underwood was the drummer with a rock group named <a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Hamilton_Face_Band&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Hamilton Face Band (page does not exist)">the Hamilton Face Band</a> during 1969,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> appearing on their recordings released by <a href="/wiki/Philips_Records" title="Philips Records">Philips Records</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Bell_Records_(1950s-70s)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bell Records (1950s-70s)">Bell Records</a>. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>By some accounts, she retired from performing by 1982, concentrating instead on her family.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In a 1993 interview she revealed that she played on one final session for Zappa shortly before his death from cancer in December of that year. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>A couple of years ago, when I heard that Frank was ill, I called him up. For 14 years we had no contact at all. He invited me to the house and we enjoyed some really nice visits with each other. Last June ('93) he called and asked if he could sample some of my stuff. I was shocked because I hadn't touched a pair of mallets since March of '77. I ended up practicing for 14 hours, which was all the time I could get together in the context of my life now. I spent four days at Frank's house sampling. This was really a miracle for me – that I could be reunited with him and still have something to offer.</p></blockquote> <p>In 2008, she commissioned Gordon Stout to write a work for the percussion ensemble <a href="/wiki/Nexus_(ensemble)" title="Nexus (ensemble)">Nexus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She also features in the DVD - DC Collection: Vol. 1 - The Drummers Of Frank Zappa (2009) with Terry Bozzio, Ralph Humphrey, Chester Thompson and Chad Wackerman. </p><p>She is the mother of two children, both musicians.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She resides in Los Angeles. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_discography">Selected discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruth_Underwood&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Selected discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Frank_Zappa">Frank Zappa</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruth_Underwood&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Frank Zappa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Uncle_Meat" title="Uncle Meat">Uncle Meat </a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/200_Motels_(soundtrack)" title="200 Motels (soundtrack)">200 Motels</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Over-Nite_Sensation" title="Over-Nite Sensation">Over-Nite Sensation </a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apostrophe_(%27)" title="Apostrophe (')">Apostrophe (') </a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roxy_%26_Elsewhere" title="Roxy & Elsewhere">Roxy & Elsewhere</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/One_Size_Fits_All_(Frank_Zappa_album)" title="One Size Fits All (Frank Zappa album)">One Size Fits All</a> </i> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zoot_Allures" title="Zoot Allures">Zoot Allures </a></i> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zappa_in_New_York" title="Zappa in New York">Zappa in New York</a> </i> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Studio_Tan" title="Studio Tan">Studio Tan </a></i> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sleep_Dirt" title="Sleep Dirt">Sleep Dirt </a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thing-Fish" title="Thing-Fish">Thing-Fish </a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Stage_Anymore_Sampler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Sampler (page does not exist)">You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Sampler </a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Stage_Anymore,_Vol._1" title="You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1">You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 </a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Stage_Anymore,_Vol._2" title="You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2">You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 </a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Stage_Anymore,_Vol._3" title="You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3">You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 </a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Stage_Anymore,_Vol._4" title="You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4">You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 </a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Stage_Anymore,_Vol._6" title="You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6">You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 </a></i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Episodes" title="The Lost Episodes">The Lost Episodes </a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A4ther" title="Läther">Läther </a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa_Plays_the_Music_of_Frank_Zappa:_A_Memorial_Tribute" title="Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute">Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute </a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Have_I_Offended_Someone%3F" title="Have I Offended Someone?">Have I Offended Someone? </a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dub_Room_Special_(soundtrack)" title="The Dub Room Special (soundtrack)">The Dub Room Special</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wazoo_(album)" title="Wazoo (album)">Wazoo</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/One_Shot_Deal" title="One Shot Deal">One Shot Deal </a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Understanding_America" title="Understanding America">Understanding America </a></i> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Road_Tapes,_Venue_2" title="Road Tapes, Venue 2">Road Tapes, Venue #2</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Token_Of_His_Extreme_Soundtrack" class="mw-redirect" title="A Token Of His Extreme Soundtrack">A Token of His Extreme Soundtrack</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roxy_by_Proxy" title="Roxy by Proxy">Roxy by Proxy </a></i> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roxy_the_Soundtrack" title="Roxy the Soundtrack">Roxy the Soundtrack </a></i> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Crux_of_the_Biscuit" title="The Crux of the Biscuit">The Crux of the Biscuit</a> </i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Meat_Light" title="Meat Light">Meat Light </a></i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Roxy_Performances" title="The Roxy Performances">The Roxy Performances </a></i> (2018)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Halloween_73" title="Halloween 73">Halloween 73 </a></i> (2019)</li> <li><i>Zappa</i> (2020)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Hamilton_Face_Band">The Hamilton Face Band</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruth_Underwood&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The 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href="/w/index.php?title=My_Soul:_The_Complete_MPS_Fusion_Recordings&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="My Soul: The Complete MPS Fusion Recordings (page does not exist)">My Soul: The Complete MPS Fusion Recordings </a></i> (2008)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Billy_Cobham">Billy Cobham</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruth_Underwood&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Billy Cobham"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Inner_Conflicts&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Inner Conflicts (page does not exist)">Inner Conflicts </a></i> (1978)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ambrosia">Ambrosia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruth_Underwood&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 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