Stereophile Recording of the Month, December 2011! Four stars for Performance and Five stars for Sonics!
Music By John Lennon Reimagined by Guitarist Bill Frisell!
Bill's celebrated relationship with Savoy Jazz endures with an album of brilliant interpretations of John Lennon classics. Guitarist Frisell is joined by Jenny Scheinman, Greg Leisz, Tony Scherr and Kenny Wollesen.
"The Most Innovative and Influential Jazz Guitarist of the Last 25 Years." - The Wall Street Journal
"What makes this record - a project all participants admit came together very rapidly - not only possible, but a rare success in the field of re-recording the music of Lennon and McCartney, is the obvious chemistry between the members of this quintet, who've now played together for the better part of 15 years. The rhythm section of Wollesen and bassist Tony Scherr, who also play together in the band Sex Mob, has the kind of telepathic, finish-each-other's-idea connection that all great rhythms teams possess. Their work in the nicely low-down and gritty version of "Come Together," which hews closely to the Beatles' original, drives the web of string tones and tinklings - and an unidentifiable sound that sounds like a low human wail - along at a trot. It's fascinating to hear the improvisatory gifts between the players, as they watch and listen and play off each other's moves, all led by Frisell's Jim-Hall-meets-Americana sensibility, which rarely, if ever, takes a false step." - Robert Baird, Stereophile, Vol. 34, No. 12, pg. 151
Features:
• CD
Musicians:
Bill Frisell, guitars
Jenny Scheinman, violin
Greg Leisz, steel guitars, acoustic guitar
Tony Scherr, bass
Kenny Wollesen, drums
Selections:
1. Across the Universe
2. Revolution
3. Nowhere Man
4. Imagine
5. Please, Please Me
6. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
7. Hold On
8. In My Life
9. Come Together
10. Julia
11. Woman
12. Number 9 Dream
13. Love
14. Beautiful Boy
15. Mother
16. Give Peace A Chance
| By Labels | Universal |
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| By Genre | Vocalist |