Jazz Articles about Bill Frisell

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Album Review

Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan: Small Town

Read "Small Town" reviewed by Luca Canini

by Luca Canini
July 10, 2017

A certi dischi non si può far altro che arrendersi. C'è poco da raccontare, da spiegare. Li si ascolta e li si ama: punto. Senza porre condizioni o veti, senza affannarsi a cercare giustificazioni. Quello che c'è da sapere è tutto lì. E arriva dritto e preciso alla testa e al cuore. Dritto, preciso e perfetto nel caso di Bill Frisell e Thomas Morgan. Che qualcuno -finalmente! -ha avuto la buonissima idea di mettere insieme su un ...

Album Review

Bill Frisell / Thomas Morgan: Small Town

Read "Small Town" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
May 19, 2017

In Emma Franz's revelatory documentary, Bill Frisell: A Portrait, the guitarist talks about the many guitars he owns, and how he rarely gets to plays them--the consequence, amongst other things, of the plight musicians face when traveling by air these days. Not three months after the film's premiere at South By Southwest this past March, comes Small Town--a live recording from New York's heralded Village Vanguard that represents a number of firsts for the veteran guitarist. It's Frisell's ...

Film Review

Bill Frisell: A Portrait

by John Kelman
March 14, 2017

Bill Frisell Bill Frisell: A Portrait A Film by Emma Franz2017 Not long after the film Bill Frisell: A Portrait begins to roll, Bonnie Raitt--one of the many high profile names that lend their thoughts about one of the most influential guitarists and composers of the past forty years to the film, in this guitarist/singer/songwriter's case, having enlisted him as a guest on her last two albums (2012's Grammy Award-winning Slipstream and 2016 follow-up ...

Album Review

Tom Collier: Impulsive Illuminations

Read "Impulsive Illuminations" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 28, 2016

Vibraphonist Tom Collier offers up something quite different from his previous Origin Records CDs, where he covered the jazz standards like John Coltrane's “Giant Steps; Miles Davis' “So What," and some seemingly unlikely pop hits: The Rolling Stones “What a Shame" and Brian Wilson's “God Only Knows," alongside his own always engaging compositions. With Impulsive Illuminations, the thirty year University of Washington educator (now retired) explores the world of improvisation with pianist Richard Karpen, in the trio mode, with five ...

New York @ Night

Bill Frisell's "Guitar in the Space Age" at the Blue Note

by Peter Jurew
October 20, 2016

Bill FrisellBlue Note New York, NY October 4, 2016 It's one month before what is shaping up to be an epochal presidential election; the national mood is tense, nerves are fraying, anxiety is high. And just in the nick of time, here comes guitarist Bill Frisell to save our sanity! He's presenting the Blue Note (NYC) audiences with a week of coolly poignant interpretations of some of his favorite vintage pop tunes, most of which ...

Album Review

Bill Frisell: When You Wish Upon a Star

Read "When You Wish Upon a Star" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
April 19, 2016

There's something undeniably powerful about the music of one's youth, whether it be the theme tune to a much loved children's TV show, the pop music of our teens or the soundtracks to the classic films that signpost the passing of the years. When You Wish Upon a Star pays tribute to well-known film and television theme tunes from the 1950s to the 1970s and represents the latest foray from Frisell, following his John Lennon tribute All We Are Saying... ...

Album Review

Bill Frisell: When You Wish Upon a Star

Read "When You Wish Upon a Star" reviewed by Luigi Sforza

by Luigi Sforza
March 17, 2016

Chi di Bill Frisell conosce le passioni non si stupirà per quest'album interamente dedicato alle musiche da film. La frequentazione del chitarrista, compositore e band leader di Baltimora con le musiche per il cinema è di lunga data. Numerose sono le colonne sonore da lui composte in un ventennio -si potrebbe partire dal lungometraggio La Scuola di Daniele Lucchetti del 1995, per arrivare al più recente documentario The Great Flood di Bill Morrison del 2013 passando per il film d'animazione ...