![]() ![]() ![]() What we’re doing is – I don’t know if you’d say “paying tribute to” – a lot of electric guitar-based music that I grew up with and that Greg Leisz, who plays slide guitar and guitar in the band, grew up with. I was born in 1951 and Greg was born in 1949, so growing up in the ‘50s and ‘60s it’s pretty much when rock and roll was born, and all the Fender guitars were coming out, and surf music, and it’s just this huge body of electric guitar music that came from that time. This is something we’ve just recorded, and there’s an album coming out in the fall. Bill Frisell performing at the 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival with the Charles Lloyd Quartet (photo by Monica Frisell)ĪM: One of the two concerts you’re giving in June at the Ottawa Jazz Festival is called “Guitar in the Space Age.” What is the theme of that concert?īF: Actually, what we’re doing right now in New York is that project. ![]()
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