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Floratone: Floratone II

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Il secondo capitolo del progetto Floratone, giunto a cinque anni di distanza dal precedente, ne conferma le linee generali, a cominciare dal processo di realizzazione che rappresenta tuttora la sua caratteristica principale. Anche qui il punto di partenza è costituito da una sessione di registrazione in studio che ha visto protagonisti Bill Frisell e il batterista Matt Chamberlain improvvisare spontaneamente in duo, senza niente di predeterminato. I nastri contenenti le diverse ore di musica che ne sono usciti sono stati ...

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Bill Frisell: Helsinki, Finland, August 29, 2012

Read "Bill Frisell: Helsinki, Finland, August 29, 2012" reviewed by Anthony Shaw


Bill FrisellHelsinki FestivalHelsinki, FInlandAugust 29, 2012 It's hard to find a summer festival that is not critically dependent on the weather for that essential vibe. As such, August's Helsinki Festival stands as good a chance as any for success, with the main stage located a half-mile from the central station on a bank beside an inlet of the Baltic, where 600 people can sit in relative comfort under a 40 foot high, custom built ...

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Bill Frisell and Bill Morrison: Columbus, OH, March 31, 2012

Read "Bill Frisell and Bill Morrison: Columbus, OH, March 31, 2012" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Bill Frisell TrioThe Great FloodThurber Theater, Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OHMarch 31, 2012Sometimes you can hear a song lyric for years, but it is not until it is sung just so that it hits home. Bill Frisell's Trio presented an original soundtrack to a film by director Bill Morrison about the great Mississippi flood of 1927 at The Ohio State University's Thurber Theater on Saturday, March 31, 2012. When the guitarist quoted Oscar Hammerstein ...

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Bill Frisell: All We Are Saying...

Read "All We Are Saying..." reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Tutto è cominciato a Parigi, nell'ottobre del 2005. Sbarcato in Europa con Jenny Scheinman e Greg Leisz per un lungo tour (due le date italiane: a Sacile prima, e a Roma poi), Bill Frisell approda alla Cité de la Musique nei giorni in cui si celebrano la vita e la musica di John Lennon con una serie di proiezioni, installazioni, concerti e una mostra. Niente di più naturale per gli organizzatori che chiedere al chitarrista di Baltimora di partecipare all'evento. ...

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Bill Frisell: All We Are Saying...

Read "All We Are Saying..." reviewed by Ian Patterson


Thirty-one years after John Lennon's murder there's no sign of his influence waning. Guitarist Bill Frisell adds personal tribute to the singer/songwriter/activist on All We Are Saying..., the year after vigils and tribute concerts were held to honor Lennon's 70th birthday from Liverpool to New York and everywhere in between. In Iceland, Yoko Ono lit a tulip-shaped beacon of light in the memorial Imagine Peace Tower, which combined with the Northern Lights in spectacular tribute. Frisell's homage is, of course, ...

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Bill Frisell: Sign of Life

Read "Sign of Life" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Nato nel 2001 per dar forma sonora ad un ciclo di quadri astratti dell'artista tedesco Gerhard Richter, 858 Quartet ha trovato successivamente una propria ragion d'essere ed una propria autonomia diventando un quartetto “tutto corde" grazie all'avvicendamento tra la tromba di Ron Miles e il violino di Jenny Scheinman. Tant'è che Bill Frisell, titolare del progetto, si è dedicato con entusiasmo a comporre in modo specifico per quella che lui stesso ama definire: “la mia string band da sogno". Prosegue ...

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Bill Frisell: All We Are Saying...

Read "All We Are Saying..." reviewed by John Kelman


If there's any sign that Bill Frisell's move to Savoy was a good one, it's the release of All We Are Saying..., which makes three albums from the veteran guitarist in just thirteen months. Frisell left two decades at Nonesuch to be able to release more than one album a year, in order to keep up with a still-growing myriad of projects, and with this John Lennon tribute not even in the plans when Beautiful Dreamers was released, in August, ...


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