062514 Bill Frisell plays Go West, Ottawa, ON
It seems that I’ve seen Bill Frisell fifteen times, but the show I saw him play at the Ottawa jazz festival on June 25th, 2014 was one of the more curious…
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It seems that I’ve seen Bill Frisell fifteen times, but the show I saw him play at the Ottawa jazz festival on June 25th, 2014 was one of the more curious…
This was an evening of the sublime; one of the world’s most interesting guitar players playing some of the greatest pop songs ever written…
I’d like to say that the set was brilliant, with Frisell weaving his post-modern loops in and around old-timey country fiddle tunes and I’m sure it was, but…
John Prine was so good I think he might have put on the best set of the whole festival…
For this ticket story we’re going to have to go all the way back to the Second World War…
Despite what the ticket indicates I recall this show being a trio…
The relatively small but wonderfully niche Guelph Jazz Festival had paired my two favourite guitar players to play together for the first (and only?) time…
If there’s a musical reason to be a proud Canadian, his name is Neil Young…
On August 23rd, 1999 I saw the great Bill Frisell at Ottawa’s legendary Barrymore’s Music Hall. This wouldn’t be the last concert I saw in the old decaying theatre but it was among them…
June 24th, 2014 was a jazzfest evening that was astoundingly memorable for me, one that contained a somewhat crushing low, an incredible highlight, and a self-defeating decision that remains submerged in regret…