Bill Frisell concluded his Trio tour—playing music to the films of Buster Keaton, Bill Morrison, and Jim Woodring—at the Barbican in London on Saturday as part of the London Jazz Festival. The Guardian gives a perfect five stars to the performance, in which the Trio gave "all the light and shade needed to underpin three very different film-makers' visions ... Best of all were the Buster Keaton movies The High Sign and One Week, integrating music and vision so brilliantly it was impossible to think of the event as pure film or just jazz."
Bill Frisell concluded his Trio tour—playing music to the films of Buster Keaton, Bill Morrison, and Jim Woodring—at the Barbican in London on Saturday as part of the London Jazz Festival. The Guardian gives a perfect five stars to the performance, in which Frisell, with bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wollesen, gave "all the light and shade needed to underpin three very different film-makers' visions," according to reviewer John L. Walters.
With Woodring's films seemingly "joined at the hip to Frisell's skewed countryisms" and Bill Morrison's demanding "a vast emotional range from Frisell's power trio," Walters asserts: "Best of all were the Buster Keaton movies The High Sign and One Week, integrating music and vision so brilliantly it was impossible to think of the event as pure film or just jazz."
Frisell recorded music for The High Sign / One Week on a 1995 Nonesuch disc released in conjunction with a second disc featuring music for Keaton's film Go West.
Walters reports that among the encores were "a monumental, ecstatic 'That Was Then,'" from Frisell's 1999 album Good Dog, Happy Man.
Read the five-star review at guardian.co.uk.
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