Results for "Bill Frisell"

Charles Lloyd New Quartet: Passin' Thru

by Angelo Leonardi
June 12, 2017

Alla soglia degli ottant'anni Charles Lloyd continua a mostrare la vivacità e l'energia di un trentenne. Abbiamo appena terminato d'apprezzare la collaborazione con Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz e altri nel progetto The Marvels (I Long to See You Blue Note 2016) che la storica etichetta annuncia la pubblicazione di Passin' Thru, terzo disco del suo ...

Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan – Small Town

Featuring the music of Bill Frisell
Duration: 2:22
June 1, 2017

Cuong Vu/4-Tet: Ballet: The Music Of Michael Gibbs

by Dan McClenaghan
May 27, 2017

It sounds as if Seattle-based trumpeter Cuong Vu is in the early stages of lining up the jazz guitar gods and recording and releasing an album with each. The year 2015 saw him offer up Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (Nonesuch Records), and 2017 finds him bringing Bill Frisell into his orbit, with Ballet: The ...

Bill Frisell / Thomas Morgan: Small Town

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 ...

Filippo Vignato

by Paolo Peviani
May 10, 2017

Il tratto principale della mia musica Il contrasto tra melodia e rumore. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me La possibilità di una profonda comunicazione reciproca. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice Ogni volta in cui riesco a stabilire un'empatia con chi ...

Bray Jazz Festival 2017

by Ian Patterson
May 9, 2017

Bray Jazz Festival Various venues Bray, Ireland May 28-30, 2017 There are just so many cultural events going on in Ireland over the May Bank Holiday weekend that it can be a bit of a head-spin deciding what to opt for. Roots music gatherings, literature festivals, classical recitals, a chamber ...

Rebecca Hennessy's FOG Brass Band: Two Calls

by Dan McClenaghan
May 5, 2017

Toronto-based trumpeter Rebecca Hennessy's FOG Brass Band, on Two Calls, sounds at times like a traditional brass band. The disc's, opening cut, “Red Herring," features a jumpy, tuba-driven rhythm, a soaring trombone solo, a frenetic trumpet turn with a scintillating piano backdrop, followed by Don Scott's hard rock electric guitar interlude. It is a compelling beginning ...

Jenny Scheinman: Here on Earth

by Doug Collette
May 2, 2017

Originally commissioned as music to accompany the film Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait, but actually dating back to sources of inspiration from the artist's childhood, the music on violinist/composer Jenny Scheinman's Here On Earth stands on its own terms as an unconventional work of string music. Fifteen tracks pass in quick succession from “A Kid ...

Ralph Towner: un americano a Roma

by Mario Calvitti
May 1, 2017

Ralph Towner rappresenta sicuramente una figura atipica nel vasto mondo della chitarra jazz. In primo luogo per gli strumenti usati: la chitarra classica, che negli anni '60 in ambito jazzistico era utilizzata solamente da musicisti legati alla musica brasiliana come Charlie Byrd, Laurindo Almeida e Bola Sete, e la chitarra 12-corde, che proveniva dal mondo folk ...

Martin Speake: The Thinking Fan's Saxophonist

by Duncan Heining
April 28, 2017

British alto saxophonist, Martin Speake, is one of the most adventurous and articulate musicians in a music peppered with creative artists. That he is not a household name--even within the proscribed and marginalised world of jazz--says more about the times than it does about Speake or his single-minded approach to his art. Speake combines ...