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Album Review

Bill Frisell: Guitar in the Space Age!

Read "Guitar in the Space Age!" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Con Guitar in the Space Age! prosegue il viaggio alla riscoperta della musica americana del secolo scorso da parte dell'infaticabile Bill Frisell. Questa volta tocca agli eroi della chitarra elettrica che dettavano legge nei decenni tra il secondo dopo guerra e i favolosi anni sessanta, nell'epoca dei primi viaggi nello spazio e della contestazione studentesca, del boom economico e della guerra nel Vietnam, delle rivendicazioni razziali e... della nascita della Fender Telecaster. Ma lungi dal caricarsi di ...

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Live Review

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 4-6

Read "TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 4-6" reviewed by John Kelman


Days 1-2 | Days 4-6 | Days 7- 9 Tedeschi Trucks Band Bill Frisell Guitar in the Space Age! Julian Lage & Nels Cline / Bill Frisell Go West TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 20-July 1, 2014 While not necessarily an intentional decision, the next three days of the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival were a guitar lover's dream: two performances by festival stalwart Bill Frisell; the return of ...

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Lyrics

Save the Date - Aprile 2014

Read "Save the Date - Aprile 2014" reviewed by Luca Canini


Come promesso il mese scorso, diventa fisso l'appuntamento con “Save the Date." Riparte il viaggio su e giù per lo Stivale a caccia delle migliori proposte, dei migliori festival, delle iniziative più stuzzicanti. Una guida tascabile compilata seguendo solo e soltanto l'ispirazione e le tracce della musica che piace (a noi). 2 Aprile--Piacenza: Arriva in Italia Bill Frisell in versione Beautiful Dreamers, ovvero il trio completato dalla viola di Eyvind Kang e dalla batteria di Rudy Royston. ...

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Extended Analysis

Bill Frisell: Silent Comedy

Read "Bill Frisell: Silent Comedy" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Only once before in a discography that runs to 35-odd albums has leader Bill Frisell released a solo guitar album--the brooding Ghost Town (Nonesuch Records, 2000). Thirteen years on, Frisell returns to the solo format, though the difference between the two offerings is like night and day. Whereas Ghost Town was a series of mostly acoustic compositions embellished with overdubs, Silent Comedy's real- time, loop-heavy electric improvisations employ no post-production. And, where Ghost Town was introspective and darkly poetic, Silent ...

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Album Review

Bill Frisell: Big Sur

Read "Big Sur" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Heralded guitar maestro Bill Frisell combines his 858 Quartet and Beautiful Dreamers units to impart another watermark on his Americana legacy, featuring an organic acoustic-electronic sketch of this picturesque area of California coastline. The album comprises nineteen-tracks, spanning Civil War-era country-chamber, undulating ostinatos, layered strings, parts, and even snippets of surf music on “The Big One." Frisell's aural snapshots of Big Sur tender an alluring vista melded with melodic content and occasional detours amid a polychromatic framework, mottled ...

Album Review

Bill Frisell: Big Sur

Read "Big Sur" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


C'è qualcosa di epico in Big Sur, ultima fatica discografica di Bill Frisell. Sarà per quel suo scorrere placido come un fiume, dall'incidere maestoso tra morbide anse e paesaggi mozzafiato. Sarà per l'aria di contemplazione e di rinnovato stupore verso le la bellezza delle cose semplici che si percepisce dalla prima all'ultima nota. Sarà perché i diciannove brani si legano uno all'altro in una sorta di suite dell'anima e dei sentimenti che per oltre un'ora ammalia l'ascoltatore. Sarà.... ma Big ...

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Album Review

Bill Frisell: Big Sur

Read "Big Sur" reviewed by Troy Collins


Along with household names like Pat Metheny and John Scofield, Bill Frisell is one of the most distinctive American guitarists of his generation. Despite his penchant for abstraction, Frisell's phrasing, touch and tone are as singularly unique and readily identifiable as those of his more conventional peers. Though his vast discography includes bold experimental solo albums and erstwhile membership in John Zorn's infamous Naked City, Frisell's abiding fascination with Americana has found him fine-tuning his encyclopedic interpretations of American folk ...


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