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Bill Frisell: Big Sur
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." ...
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2013
by Henning Bolte
Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2013Copenhagen, DenmarkJuly 12-14, 2013The annual Copenhagen Jazz Festival, with more than a thousand concerts during ten days--spread over more than hundred places and stages across the city--is a special, unique affair. Like other big jazz festivals, it also has its headliners--big names, mostly American, like Terence Blanchard, Richard Bona, Chick ...
Garana Jazz Festival 2013
by Adriana Carcu
Garana Jazz FestivalWolf's MeadowGarana, RomaniaJuly 11-14, 2013For four days each summer, a village in the Western Carpathians becomes the Mecca for the Romanian jazz fans, and an ever-growing number of Europeans. For the 17th time the Bohemian colony Garana (Wolfsberg is its German name) has hosted an event of growing importance ...
Molde International Jazz Festival 2013
by John Kelman
Molde International Jazz Festival Molde, Norway July 15-20, 2013It may have been his last year as festival director, but Jan Ole Otnæs sure went out on a high, not just because his programming was as impeccable as ever, but because he made it a year with a very specific philosophy. ...
Bill Frisell: Big Sur
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 ...
Bill Frisell: Big Sur
by Ian Patterson
Big Sur, the mountainous coastal region of California lends itself to various geographical definitions--it isn't easy to pin down definitively. So, it was an inspired idea by the Monterey Jazz Festival to put guitarist Bill Frisell in a cabin in the area and commission music, because with Frisell, musical borders are delightfully amorphous. The suite that ...
Bill Frisell: Big Sur
by John Kelman
Most, if not all, musicians value the relationships--both musical and friendship--that they build over the years, but few are as loyal as guitarist Bill Frisell. One look at his various releases over the past couple of decades and it becomes instantly clear that, once he has established a successful working and personal relationship with another musician, ...
Jenny Scheinman: Mischief & Mayhem
by AAJ Italy Staff
Della sorprendente esibizione al Jazz Festival 2012 di Saalfelden, che aveva rivelato una band dalla fisicità debordante e contagiosa, abbiamo già riferito. Quella che abbiamo tra le mani è una registrazione effettuata il sei marzo del 2012 che rivela l'anima gentile, riflessiva, oseremmo dire candida, del quartetto in questione. Certo, riferiti ad un chitarrista spesso estremo ...
Bill Frisell: Live Download Series #14-17
by John Kelman
DS#001-013 | DS#014-017 In a previous All About Jazz article, the first thirteen installments of guitarist Bill Frisell's remarkable Live Download Series were reviewed. Beginning in 2009, Frisell and Songline/Tonefield Productions began making available high quality, download-only (but in formats including 320K MP3 and lossless FLAC) live performances dating as far back as 1989, ...
Bill Frisell: Live Download Series #1-13
by John Kelman
DS#001-013 | DS#014-017One of the biggest problems facing contemporary jazz musicians is that they often have far more projects on the go than could ever be recorded and released commercially by conventional record labels--even small and relatively responsive indie labels. Special projects abound, or personnel changes for a tour are forced when members of ...
