Jazz Articles about Bill Frisell

About Bill Frisell

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Though prototype electric guitar first appeared in the early 1930s, the instrument only became a staple of popular music in the 1950s and 1960s. As a musical revolution was evolving, so was a different type altogether -space exploration. Sixty years on, in an age when the challenge is just to keep abreast of technological innovations it takes an effort to imagine the seismic shift that the electric guitar and space travel—and television that brought such adventures into millions of homes—signified ...

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Jazz & Wine of Peace 2014

by Angelo Leonardi
November 4, 2014

Jazz & Wine of Peace 2014 Cormons: 18-26.10.2014 Giunto alla 17ma edizione, il Jazz & Wine of Peace di Cormons si colloca tra i migliori festival nazionali, coniugando ricercate scelte musicali con la valorizzazione del territorio: in primis la rinomata produzione enologica del Collio. Organizzato dal Comune e dal Circolo Culturale Controtempo, presentava un'offerta particolarmente ricca. Accanto ai concerti serali al Teatro Comunale (Bill Frisell, Youn Sun Nah, Avishai Cohen) tutti gli altri ...

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Bill Frisell: Guitar in the Space Age!

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

by Vincenzo Roggero
October 21, 2014

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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TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 4-6

by John Kelman
June 30, 2014

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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Save the Date - Aprile 2014

by Luca Canini
April 1, 2014

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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Bill Frisell: Silent Comedy

by Ian Patterson
August 22, 2013

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 ...

Album Review

Bill Frisell: Big Sur

Read "Big Sur" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
August 21, 2013

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 ...