Bill Frisell – When You Wish Upon a Star
Concert Tours
Tour producer and promoter for jazz guitarist and composer, Bill Frisell.
Location: Australia and New Zealand
Year: 2017
Venues / Dates: Melbourne Recital Centre (2 June), York Theatre, Sydney (3 June), The Jazz Lab, Melbourne (4 June), Opera House, Wellington (7 June), QPAC, Brisbane (9 June), Adelaide Festival Centre (10, 11 June)
Presenting Partners: Melbourne International Jazz Festival, SIMA, Wellington International Jazz Festival, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Adelaide Cabaret Festival
About
Guitarist and composer Bill Frisell is a revered musician and Grammy® award-winner whose career spans more than 35 years and 250 recordings.
Frisell has collaborated with artists and ensembles as diverse as Sting, Rickie Lee Jones, Elvis Costello, Bono, T-Bone Burnett, Marianne Faithful, Paul Motian, Ron Carter, Dave Holland, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Brian Eno, Paul Simon, The Frankfurt Ballet, BCC Symphony Orchestra and The Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The tour includes music from Frisell 2017 Grammy® nominated release, When You Wish Upon a Star -featuring unique interpretations of classic American cinema music from Hitchcock’s Psycho through to Ennio Morricone’s score to Once Upon A Time In The West, via Nino Rota’s music for The Godfather.
Bill Frisell, Guitars; Petra Haden, Vocalist; Thomas Morgan, Bass; Rudy Royston, Drums
Reviews
“It’s hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell.” (The New York Times)
“Frisell is a revered figure among musicians – like Miles Davis and few others, his signature is built from pure sound and inflection; an anti-technique that is instantly identifiable.” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)