Question: The Ed Palermo Big Band is known for Ed Palermo's arrangements of the music of an American musician who was characterized by nonconformity, and who released how many albums?

Context articles: Pat Barberot
Beantown Swing Orchestra
Frank Zappa
Roomful of Blues
New Big Band
Ed Palermo Big Band
Adrian Fry
Art Blakey Big Band
Ted Kooshian
Toshiko Akiyoshi discography

Pat Barberot (d. 2007) was an American band leader.
 He was the founder and band leader of one New Orleans' longest running big bands, the Pat Barberot Orchestra.
 From 1940 until 2007, Barberot's band, with his saxophone out front, performed its own arrangements of classics including the big band composers Glenn Miller, Stan Kenton, Louis Prima, and Sy Oliver.
 In 1970, Barberot realized that venues for big band were fading away, so he opened his own club, The Jefferson Orleans North.
 There his band performed big band hits including "In The Mood", "Moonlight Serenade", "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)", "Midnight Tango" and "Eager Beaver" at their weekly concerts for over 35 years.
The Beantown Swing Orchestra is a Boston-based 18-piece big band that was formed in 2006 by Frank Hsieh.
 Initially specializing in performing the classic dance music from the Swing Era, the band has since expanded its repertoire to include transcriptions of Frank Sinatra's big band arrangements, and most recently its own arrangements of popular and original songs.
 In 2007, the Beantown Swing Orchestra featured performer Jonathan Meath, who performed as Santa Claus in three shows.
 Since 2007, all of the band's charts have been transcribed or arranged by trumpeter Danny Fratina.
 The group's best-known vocalists are fellow American Idol sixth-place finishers Siobhan Magnus and John Stevens, although it also features other various female vocalists including American Idol semi-finalist Jen Hirsh, NYC-based jazz vocalist Laura Brunner, and singer/songwriter Erin McKeown.
 The band performs regularly at weddings, galas, and concerts throughout the Northeastern United States.
 Former trombonist Nick Noonan is one half of the pop duo Karmin.
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.
 His work was characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture.
 In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and "musique concrète" works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.
 Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers.
 Publications such as "Ultimate Classic Rock" and "The Independent" have described him as one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his generation.
Roomful of Blues is an American blues and swing revival big band based in Rhode Island.
 With a recording career that spans over 40 years, they have toured worldwide and recorded many albums.
 Roomful of Blues, according to the "Chicago Sun-Times", "Swagger, sway and swing with energy and precision".
 Since 1967, the group’s blend of swing, rock and roll, jump blues, boogie-woogie and soul has earned it five Grammy Award nominations and many other accolades, including seven Blues Music Awards (with a victory as Blues Band Of The Year in 2005). "
Billboard" called the band "a tour de force of horn-fried blues…Roomful is so tight and so right."
 The "Down Beat" International Critics Poll has twice selected Roomful of Blues as Best Blues Band.
New Big Band is a term used to refer to the revivalist movement of 21st Century Jazz artists who are bringing a new form of Big Band music that fuses elements of traditional swing bands of leaders like Duke Ellington and Count Basie whose popularity peaked from the 1930s through the 1950s with the more intense sounds produced by smaller groups of the Bop era of the 1950s and beyond.
 The distinction between big bands that survived the 1970s and several big bands that have had some success in different parts of the world is that the sporadic big bands between the fall of the Big Band era and 2000 have been more preservationist in nature.
 The New Big Band movement is developing a new original jazz literature of fresh compositions as well as modern reinterpretations of standards through new arrangements that conform to the new style being presented to the public.
The Ed Palermo Big Band is a big band that has been active for over thirty years, playing the compositions and arrangements of their leader, saxophonist Ed Palermo.
 The band is known for Palermo's arrangements of the music of Frank Zappa.
Adrian Fry (born 1969) is a British freelance jazz trombonist, arranger and composer.
 He has performed with many British bands including Back to Basie, Frank Griffith Nonet & Big Band, Elio Pace, Karen Sharp Quintet, Stan Tracey Big Band, Michael Garrick Big Band, Don Weller Electric Octet & Big Band, the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, Bone Supremacy and Pete Cater's Ministry of Jazz.
 His credits as a session musician include Albert Lee, Incognito, Katrina Leskanich and Shakin' Stevens.
 In 2010 he was Assistant Musical Director on BBC Radio 2's Weekend Wogan.
Art Blakey Big Band (also called Art Blakey's Big Band and Art Blakey and his Drivin' Big Band) is an album by drummer Art Blakey recorded in late 1957 and originally released on the Bethlehem label.
 It differs from typical Art Blakey releases as his regular quintet was expanded to form a big band for these arrangements.
Ted Kooshian (born October 8, 1961) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer, who has performed with Aretha Franklin, Chuck Berry, Marvin Hamlisch, Sarah Brightman, Il Divo, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
 Kooshian has played in many Broadway pit orchestras, and has been a member of the Ed Palermo Big Band since 1994.
 Originally from San Jose, California, Kooshian has been performing since the 1980s.
Since her debut recording for Norgran Records in 1954, jazz pianist, composer, arranger and big band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi has recorded continuously – almost exclusively as a leader of small jazz combos and of her big bands – averaging one studio album release per year for well over 50 years.
 She has also recorded several live albums in solo, small combo and big band settings, including three big band concert videos.
 Akiyoshi has released multiple albums for Victor / BMG, Nippon Columbia, Toshiba, Discomate, Nippon Crown and other labels in Japan and for Norgran / Verve, RCA, Columbia / Sony, Concord and her own Ascent label in the US.
 All of her big band recordings and nearly all of her other early works have been re-issued on CDs over the years.