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Floratone (Frisell / Chamberlain / Townsend / Martine): Floratone II

Read "Floratone II" reviewed by John Kelman


Plenty of artists treat their music as egalitarian, but some projects are more collaborative than others. Guitarist Bill Frisell has long considered his work to be about the greater whole, going so far as to credit the arrangements on Sign of Life (Savoy, 2011), as “(on the spot and subject to change) by Bill Frisell, Eyvind Kang, Hank Roberts and Jenny Scheinman." But Floratone (Blue Note, 2007) was more collaborative still, beginning life as a series of jams with drummer ...

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Floratone: Floratone

Read "Floratone" reviewed by Jim Santella


Electronics and special effects color Floratone's eponymous debut liberally; however, the core focus of this modern quartet remains tied to jazz tradition. Along with producers Tucker Martine and Lee Townsend, guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Matt Chamberlain have formed Floratone in the image of progressive jazz of the 21st century. They've collaborated to blend elements of country & western, blues and ballads with the influence of metallic rock and raw funk. Feeling that this band represents the new thing in ...

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Bill Frisell / Matt Chamberlain / Lee Townsend / Tucker Martine: Floratone

Read "Floratone" reviewed by John Kelman


The role of producer can range from bean counter and clock watcher to active musical participant, involved with details of arrangement and instrumentation. Still, it's almost unprecedented to see a collaborative group that lists not one, but two producers as actual band members. Even Teo Macero, who during Miles Davis' electric period, used innovative editing techniques to shape Miles' music into cogent form, was never listed as anything other than producer. In the case of Floratone, guitarist Bill Frisell and ...

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Floratone Featured on NPR "All Things Considered

Floratone Featured on NPR "All Things Considered

Source: All About Jazz

Critics are raving about FLORATONE, a unique collaboration between Matt Chamberlain, Bill Frisell, Tucker Martine & Lee Townsend that is one of the most provocative musical statements of the year. Check out Tom Moon's rave review from NPR All Things Considered. “Floratone is a modern masterpiece... The greatest success is how organic, how natural the music sounds... a distinctive, extremely appealing and visual collection of sonic landscapes." --ALL ABOUT JAZZ “Floratone [is] some of the most riveting instrumental music to ...

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Blue Note Set to Release "Floratone" on August 14, 2007

Blue Note Set to Release "Floratone" on August 14, 2007

Source: All About Jazz

A studio collaboration between drummer Matt Chamberlain, guitarist Bill Frisell, and producers Tucker Martine & Lee Townsend

While collaborative improvisation serves as the ethos of the jazz idiom, the projects that soar beyond the tradition--where the end product is monumentally greater than the sum of the parts--are rare indeed. They are even rarer when an artist gives creative reign to a producer to imagine and construct evocative soundscapes from source material. The first and inarguably the most potent artist-producer team ...

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Floratone II

Savoy Jazz
2012

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Floratone

Blue Note Records
2008

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Floratone

Blue Note
2007

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Floratone

Blue Note Records
2007

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