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"Being Here" - the book - just released

Being Here - the book

Being Here - A book with interviews of many New York musiciansBeing Here, a compilation of interviews with extraordinary New York City improvisational musicians on the values and practices that inform their music making.  I ask them about composing, improvising and bandleading, andabout the relationship between art and the audience.  The book is a resource on the creative process, and tells a story of jazz at this time and place.  By Radhika Philip
 
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Featured artists: Andy Bey, Ben Monder, Billy Hart, Bill Frisell, Brian Blade, Butch Morris, Chris Potter, Dafnis Prieto, David Binney, Dave Douglas, Gregoire Maret, Henry Threadgill, Jane Ira Bloom, Jason Moran, Kenny Wollesen, Maria Schneider, Mark Turner, Robert Glasper, Steve Coleman, Thomas Morgan, Vijay Iyer, William 

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Live duo with Joey Baron's on "Just Listen" Coming out soon...

Joey Baron's "Just Listen" Album Cover

 

Joey Baron & Bill Frisell duo - Just Listen

Joey Baron is releasing a live duo CD on Relative Pitch Records coming out soon.  Recorded live in Bonn, Germany.

 

 

 

 

Master Guitarist Johnny Smith (1921 - 2013)

Young musician Johnny Smith looking up and to the right

 

 

 

Bill's fond recollections of Johnny Smith as a teacher
(1921 - 2013)
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The making of "Big Sur"

 

 

 

 

A behind-the-scenes look at Bill Frisell's Big Sur release.

 

 

New June 18th Release

Bill Frisell's Big Sur album cover

OKeh released Bill's album, Big Sur, on June 18th, 2013. The project marks his label debut as well as the first album featuring the Big Sur Quintet (which combines his 858 Quartet and Beautiful Dreamers trio).

 

The region known as Big Sur occupies 90 miles of spectacular central California coastline, midway between Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara, and extends inland to the abruptly rising Santa Lucia Mountains. Over the past century, Big Sur's rugged coastline and terrain, breathtaking vistas, and potential for communion with nature have attracted and inspired a multitude of creative types, such as Robinson Jeffers, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Ansel Adams, Charles Lloyd, John Adams, Hunter S. Thompson, The Beach Boys, Death Cab For Cutie, and others.

 

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Twelve Days of Fretboard: Bill Frisell, day six.

On the sixth day, we are visited by jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. Frisell is no stranger to the Fretboard Journal, he was interviewed in our fourth issue by banjo player Danny Barnes and then, in issue 12, Frisell himself penned a story where he interviewed his guitar hero, Jim Hall. To be honest, we simply never get tired talking to him.

Floratone II

Floratone II
"Floratone is Mr. Frisell's studio alliance with the drummer Matt Chamberlain and the producers Lee Townsend and Tucker Martine. The project, which hinges on a deft editorial restructuring of free-form guitar-and-drums interplay, released its self-titled debut on Blue Note in 2007. Everyone on board seems to have adjusted to the premise since then. "Floratone II is a surer and more engaging album. Most of its tracks still feel like snapshots, but they're vivid, color-saturated, with flashes of intrigue." - NY Times / Nate Chinen

Paul Motian: 1931 - 2011

Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 - November 22, 2011)  "No words for what I am feeling now.  Music is good. Paul Motian was a MUSICIAN. He taught me, brought me up. Pointed the way. Showed me things I never could have imagined. Led me to places of extraordinary beauty. Indescribable. Paul never let up for one second. Raising it up. Always. No compromise. Listen to the MUSIC. I am blessed to have known him."  ~ Bill Frisell

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Bill Frisell - All We Are Saying

Consummate guitarist, composer and musical interpreter Bill Frisell has assembled a trusted ensemble consisting of Jenny Scheinman (violin), Tony Scherr (bass), Greg Leisz (guitars) and Kenny Wollesen (drums) to record his take on the classic songs of John Lennon. Titled "ALL WE ARE SAYING..." the project has long been in the works, one could go as far back as the first time he heard the Beatles at the age of 13. Fast forward a few decades and Frisell is asked to put together an impromptu set in honor of John Lennon as part of a special event in Paris. The preparation, performances and reception to these compositions was an inspiration nurtured to fruition with this project. Recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley and produced by Lee Townsend, ALL WE ARE SAYING was released on Savoy Jazz on September 27, 2011.

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