Editing Absolutely Free (section)

{{Short description|Album by The Mothers of Invention}}
{{about|the album|the Canadian band|Absolutely Free (band)|the song by Frank Zappa|Absolutely Free (song)}}
{{Infobox album
| name         = Absolutely Free
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[the Mothers of Invention]]
| cover        = FrankZappa-AbsolutelyFree.jpg
| caption      = 
| alt          = 
| released     = {{Start date|1967|05|26}}
| recorded     = November 15–18, 1966<br>March 6, 1967<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.donlope.net/fz/chronology/1965-1969.html |title=FZ Chronology 1965-69 |date=2001 |website=Donlope |access-date=July 11, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Ulrich |first=Charles |date=May 13, 2018 |title=The Big Note: A Guide to the Recordings of Frank Zappa |publisher=New Star Books |isbn=978-1-554201-46-4}}</ref>
| studio       = [[TTG Studios]], Los Angeles
| genre        = * [[Avant-garde rock]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Reed|first=Ryan|date=4 July 2020|title=Top 25 American Classic Rock Bands of the '60s|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/60s-american-rock-bands/|access-date=7 March 2021|website=Ultimate Classic Rock}}</ref>
* [[avant-pop]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Grimstad|first=Paul|date=September 2007|title=What is Avant-Pop?|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/9/music/what-is-avant-pop|access-date=1 October 2016|website=[[Brooklyn Rail]]}}</ref>
| length       = {{Duration|m=39 |s=51}}
| label        = [[Verve Records|Verve]]
| producer     = [[Tom Wilson (record producer)|Tom Wilson]]
| chronology   = [[Frank Zappa]]
| prev_title   = [[Freak Out!]]
| prev_year    = 1966
| next_title   = [[Lumpy Gravy (1967 album)|Lumpy Gravy]]
| next_year    = 1967
| misc         = {{Extra chronology
 | artist     = [[The Mothers of Invention]]
 | type       = studio
 | prev_title = [[Freak Out!]]
 | prev_year  = 1966
 | title      = Absolutely Free
 | year       = 1967
 | next_title = [[We're Only in It for the Money]]
 | next_year  = 1968
}}
{{Singles
 | name        = Absolutely Free
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = Son of Suzy Creamcheese
 | single1date = 1967
}}
}}

'''''Absolutely Free''''' is the second album by American [[Rock music|rock]] band [[the Mothers of Invention]], released on May 26, 1967, by [[Verve Records]]. Much like their 1966 debut ''[[Freak Out!]]'', the album is a display of complex musical composition with political and social satire, whose blend of jazz, classical, avant-garde and rock idioms within multi-sectional, suite-like compositions is seen as an important and influential precursor to progressive rock. The band had been augmented since ''Freak Out!'' by the addition of [[woodwinds]] player Bunk Gardner, [[keyboardist]] [[Don Preston]], [[rhythm guitarist]] [[Jim Fielder]], and [[drummer]] [[Billy Mundi]]; Fielder quit the group before the album was released, and his name was removed from the album credits.