22 March 2017
MULTI-AWARD WINNING GUITARIST, BILL FRISELL
QUEENSLAND DEBUT - WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR
FEATURING PETRA HAYDEN, THOMAS MORGAN AND RUDY ROYSTON
Hailed as one of the most innovative and influential guitarists of the past quarter of a
century, Bill Frisell will make his Queensland debut at the Concert Hall, Queensland
Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) on Friday 9 June 2017.
Guitarist and composer Bill Frisell is a revered musician and Grammy® award-winner
whose career spans more than 35 years and 250 recordings. Recognised as one of
America’s most vital and productive performing artists, this bold and inventive musician
is true to jazz, but that hasn't prevented him from trying his hand at avant-garde, bop,
folk, country, bluegrass, rock, blues, American popular music and even classical music.
Frisell is a 13-time Best Guitarist winner in America’s Down Beat Magazine Critics Poll
(including 2016), and five-time Guitarist of the Year at the Jazz Journalists’ Association
Jazz Awards.
The When You Wish Upon a Star concert includes music from Bill’s latest album release
of the same title that was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary
Instrumental Album in 2016. It features 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 as well as other jazz
classics for which Frisell is well-known.
Frisell is joined on stage by vocalist Petra Haden (The Decemberists, Beck, Foo
Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Victoria Williams, Yuka Honda, The Gutter Twins,
The Haden Triplets), bass player Thomas Morgan (Paul Motian, Dave Binney Quartet,
Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet) and drummer
Rudy Royston (Branford Marsalis, Dave Douglas, The Mingus Big Band).
Frisell has collaborated with artists and ensembles as diverse as Sting, Paul Simon,
Rickie Lee Jones, Elvis Costello, Bono, T-Bone Burnett, Marianne Faithful, Paul
Motian, Ron Carter, Eberhard Weber, John Zorn, Dave Holland, Lucinda Williams,
Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Brian Eno, The Frankfurt Ballet, BCC Symphony
Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
He has also written film scores for the movies of Buster Keaton and collaborated with
filmmakers Wim Wenders (Million Dollar Hotel), Gus Van Zant (Finding Forester), on an
animated feature by cartoonist Gary Larson (Tales from the Far Side II) and with
playwright Sam Shepard (A Particle of Dread - Oedipus Variations).
Frisell himself is the subject of a documentary Bill Frisell: A Portrait by Australian singer
and film maker, Emma Franz which premiered at the SXSW* Film Festival in Austin,
Texas on 13 March 2017.
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Bill Frisell is the most innovative and influential jazz guitarist of the past 25 years.
The Wall Street Journal
Frisell is a revered figure among musicians – like Miles Davis and few others...
The New York Times
-ENDS*South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and
conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987, and has continued to
grow in both scope and size every year.
QPAC presents:
Bill Frisell - When You Wish Upon A Star
Presented as part of Queensland Cabaret Festival
WHEN:
WHERE:
TICKETS:
BOOKINGS:
Friday 9 June 2017, 7.30pm
Concert Hall, QPAC, Cultural Precinct,
South Bank, Brisbane
Refer to qpac.com.au for current pricing
qpac.com.au or 136 246
For group image for When You Wish Upon A Star and image of Bill Frisell please click
here
Group image caption from left Thomas Morgan (bass), Bill Frisell (guitar), Rudy
Royston (drums) and Petra Hayden (vocals)
For more information please go to http://billfrisell.com/whenyouwishuponastar/
http://www.billfrisell.com/media
For further information, images or interviews please contact: Cindy Ullrich, Publicity
Manager, QPAC ~ phone (07) 3840 7589, mobile 0434 366 038, email
[email protected]