Bill Frisell – Four (Blue Note Records – Album Review by Jane Mann) The dedication on this new album from guitarist/composer Bill Frisell is “to dear old friends”. It’s a beautiful piece […]
Bill Frisell – ‘Four’
‘Inside Scofield’ (film by Joerg Steineck)
Inside Scofield (Joerg Steineck / Director. Film 87 mins (145 min with DVD extras). Film review by Denny Ilett) Less of a traditional biography and more of a slice-of-life portrait of a […]
Mick Goodrick (1945-2022). A Tribute by Mark Small.
Mark Small (*) pays tribute to the massively influential guitarist and educator Mick Goodrick. On 16 November 2022, American jazz guitarist Mick Goodrick, a sought-after performer and educator who deeply impacted three […]
Julian Lage – ‘View With A Room’
Julian Lage – ‘View With A Room’ (Blue Note. Review by Adam Sieff) Guitarist Julian Lage’s second album for Blue Note generally follows the template set down in last year’s Squint. He […]
‘Music for Black Pigeons’ (jazz documentary): premiere this week
Variety (*) is reporting that a new film, ‘Music for Black Pigeons’, by Danish directors Andreas Koefoed and Jørgen Leth will have its premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week. The […]
‘In Our Own Space: A Conversation with Philip Watson and Bill Frisell’ (A SoundCellar Poole production. Online, 22 May)
“Wonderful. It captures exactly the Bill I know.” (Gavin Bryars, referring to the book Beautiful Dreamer) The imaginative programming team at Soundcellar Poole are starting up a bold and interesting new programming […]
Ten Tracks by Bill Frisell I can’t do without… by Liam Noble
For the LJN “10 Tracks I Can’t Do Without” series, in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, Liam Noble writes […]
Bill Frisell Solo at Cadogan Hall
Bill Frisell Solo (Cadogan Hall. 13 March 2022. Review by Sebastian Scotney) “What the World Needs Now….” is – quite emphatically – more Bill Frisell. The gentleness, the bonhomie, the deeply civilised […]
Philip Watson – ‘Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The guitarist who changed the sound of American music’
Philip Watson – Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The guitarist who changed the sound of American music(Faber, 519pp, £20 hb. Book Review by Jon Turney) Many have fallen in love with Bill Frisell’s […]
Interview: Philip Watson, author of “Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer” (published 17 Mar)
Philip Watson’s biography “Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music” will be published by Faber on 17 March 2022. Philip Watson has been a prolific feature […]
Pat Metheny’s ‘Sirabhorn’: an interview with the dedicatee
Sirabhorn, one of the tunes on the new Pat Metheny album, Side Eye V1.IV, is dedicated to – and named after – a student of Metheny’s from his days at Berklee in the mid-1970s. The […]
Andrew Cyrille Quartet – ‘The News’
Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The News (ECM 3520703. CD review by Jon Turney) This superb follow up to the great drummer Andrew Cyrille’s 2016 quartet release The Declaration of Musical Independence reunites […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021 (24. ‘Rag’ – Bill Frisell, This Land, 1992)
The 24th of Jon Turney’s weekly selection (introduced HERE), perhaps the most influential guitar player of the last decades. Much of Bill Frisell’s later work finds him digging deeper into songs he […]
#IWD2021: journalist Annie Yanbékian
Annie Yanbékian is one of France’s leading jazz journalists. She works for France TV in Paris, where she produces online content about jazz musicians…and a broader spectrum of music as well. In […]
Charles Lloyd & the Marvels – ‘Tone Poem’
Charles Lloyd & the Marvels – Tone Poem (Blue Note. CD review by John Bungey) Charles Lloyd says he has enjoyed lockdown – in part. This elder statesman of the saxophone has […]
