Monday, November 20, 2006

A good day for jazz

Although I'm excited about a couple of the upcoming concerts scheduled by Columbia's "We Always Swing" Jazz Series, I was overall somewhat disappointed when this year's schedule was (finally) announced in September. Usually I can't quite get to all the ones I want to get to, but this year I felt no sense of loss.

So today I was happy to receive an email notice announcing that guitarist Bill Frisell will be at The Blue Note (no, not that Blue Note). He has an unmistakable sound--and a pretty incredible inventiveness and range. Not only that, but violinist Jenny Scheiman will be joining him. Her 12 Songs CD is just about my favorite jazz-ish release of the past couple of years--very fresh and surprising.

And, hey: I'm doing TWO blog entries in one day. Because I figure the last one maybe isn't a *real* blog post.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the link to Bill Frisell. I've been looking for some guitar centered jazz to listen to. I just can't get enough jazz!

gvcarter said...

Check out Frisell's contribution on the latest Loudon Wainwright III album, -Here Come the Choppers!-. Quite good.

Here's a cool YouTube clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRU9GNot1ZE