However cool the surface of his music, Kevin Frenette is not content to serve up any sort of easy listening." The guitarist grew up in Fall River, a small city in southeastern Massachusetts, but the beauty of his music is akin to a sylvan settingto enter into it is to traverse a forest trail. Some themes and motifs"organisms"are finely formed and highly developed; some are just buddingnew ideas still in the rough, offered to the ear as tokens of innovations transpiring or to come. There are frenzies of activity, coolly psychedelic, and then dry turnsdemanding terrain that challenges, but in the final analysis leads to greater triumphs and more difficult pleasures. There is always in it a knot to unravel, or to tie, for those choosing to take his path.
In a similar way, Frenette and his band members spool together their lines and splice them, and pull them apart again. To listen carefully to the music is also to be drawn into these plays of interlocking and combinationand ultimately to feel a part of nature, sometimes cool, sometimes dry, sometimes wild and wet.
All About Jazz Contributor Gordon Marshall spoke with Frenette about how he came to the guitar, coming from pop/rock to jazz, and a recent flurry of activity that will see not one, but two new CDs released later this year: a quartet disc, Live at the 119 Gallery (Abrasive Chair, 2010); and trio set, Fragile Moments (Abrasive Chair, 2010)
Check out Kevin Frenette: Fall River Guitar Guy at All About Jazz today!
In a similar way, Frenette and his band members spool together their lines and splice them, and pull them apart again. To listen carefully to the music is also to be drawn into these plays of interlocking and combinationand ultimately to feel a part of nature, sometimes cool, sometimes dry, sometimes wild and wet.
All About Jazz Contributor Gordon Marshall spoke with Frenette about how he came to the guitar, coming from pop/rock to jazz, and a recent flurry of activity that will see not one, but two new CDs released later this year: a quartet disc, Live at the 119 Gallery (Abrasive Chair, 2010); and trio set, Fragile Moments (Abrasive Chair, 2010)
Check out Kevin Frenette: Fall River Guitar Guy at All About Jazz today!