Four

The haunting, noirish classic 'Lookout for Hope' is a standout, as it was a quarter-century ago, cascading sounds like chiming bells propel the buoyant 'Good Dog, Happy Man', and 'Dog on a Roof'... — Jazzwise, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th Nov 2022
Catalogue No: 4552315
Label: Blue Note

1. Dear Old Friends (For Alen Woodard)

2. Claude Utley

3. The Pioneers

4. Holiday

5. Waltz for Hal Willner

6. Lookout for Hope

7. Monroe

8. Wise Women

9. Blues from Before

10. Always

11. Good Dog, Happy Man

12. Invisible

13. Dog of a Roof

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Two years after issuing his acclaimed trio album Valentine, Grammy Award-winning guitarist and composer Bill Frisell returns with 'Four', a stunning meditation on loss, renewal, and those mysterious inventions of friendship. Frisell's third album for Blue Note Records since signing with the label in 2019 proffers new interpretations of previously recorded originals as well as nine new tunes. The session brings together artists of independent spirits and like minds: Blue Note stablemates Gerald Clayton on piano and Johnathan Blake on drums, and longtime collaborator Greg Tardy on saxophone, clarinet, and bass clarinet. 'This combination of people had been floating around in the back of my mind since before the pandemic,' says the Brooklyn-based artist.

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November 2022

The haunting, noirish classic 'Lookout for Hope' is a standout, as it was a quarter-century ago, cascading sounds like chiming bells propel the buoyant 'Good Dog, Happy Man', and 'Dog on a Roof' shows how effortlessly a compatible Frisell group like this can move from scuttling free-improv, to languid free-funk, to enigmatic electronics. Mostly low-key, but irresistible.

January 2023

With Four, the third Blue Note release under Bill Frisell’s own name, the guitarist honors several close friends who recently passed. From this place of loss springs a serene work inspired by those deep, lasting bonds.

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