Preview.Jazz On Four 'Crossing Bridges' - six renown 'free-improvisation' guitarists, Ron Geesin, Keith Rowe, Fred Frith, Hans Reichel, John Russell, Brian Godding, recorded at AdVision sound studios.
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Crossing Bridges
OVERVIEW OF THE PRODUCTION
Bright Thoughts were commissioned by Andy Park of Channel 4 to make this documentary about 'free-improvisation' guitarists, arguably six of the best on the scene each with their unique style of experimentation with the instrument.
Described by Peter Clayton, presenter of Jazz On Four, this programme is about six musicians mostly with roots in jazz carry almost to the limit, the work begun by Les Paul. We’ll watch what happens when an inventive mind and an inquisitive artistic spirit meet over what was one just a box and some tuned wires.
We'll be in on the laboratory stage so there’ll be a lot of wire about for experiment is an untidy process. This is not the world of ‘I Got Rhythm’ and a dozen choruses of the Blues, this is where you develop your quirk as one of them put it, very much an adventure with a more than a hint of no going back. Hence, Crossing Bridges.
Described by Peter Clayton, presenter of Jazz On Four, this programme is about six musicians mostly with roots in jazz carry almost to the limit, the work begun by Les Paul. We’ll watch what happens when an inventive mind and an inquisitive artistic spirit meet over what was one just a box and some tuned wires.
We'll be in on the laboratory stage so there’ll be a lot of wire about for experiment is an untidy process. This is not the world of ‘I Got Rhythm’ and a dozen choruses of the Blues, this is where you develop your quirk as one of them put it, very much an adventure with a more than a hint of no going back. Hence, Crossing Bridges.
Neil Anthony, Creative Director
Were he born in an earlier age, Fred Frith would have lived in a monastery somewhere on the fringe of civilisation and spent fevered years over an astrolabe or pursuing the secrets of alchemy. As a product of the late 20th century, Frith will instead spend his life charting the extreme possibilities of the electric guitar” |
