Bill Frisell/Mike Gibbs/BBCSO | Jazz review

London jazz festivalComposer Mike Gibbs's festival appearance surely made him part of the week's most unusual trio. There was guitarist Bill Frisell, drummer Joey Baron and Gibbs himself, represented by the massed ranks of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In Collage for a Day, a much-anticipated festival highlight, Gibbs created a sumptuous yet flexible orchestral setting for some of Frisell's classic themes.The purr of the orchestra's strings softened and even romanticised the guitarist's trademark ...

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