The Big Picture (Fred Frith and ARTE Quartett album)
2009 studio album by Fred Frith and ARTE Quartett / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Big Picture is a 2009 avant-garde jazz studio album by English guitarist and composer Fred Frith and the Swiss-based ARTE Quartett. It was recorded in January 2008 at Swiss Radio DRS2 in Zürich, Switzerland, and was released in 2009 by Intakt Records, together with Frith and the ARTE Quartett's first collaborative album, Still Urban, which was also recorded in January 2008 at Swiss Radio DRS2.
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Released | 2009 (2009) | |||
Recorded | January 2008 | |||
Studio | Swiss Radio DRS2, Zürich, Switzerland | |||
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Length | 63:09 | |||
Label | Intakt Records | |||
Producer | Intakt Records | |||
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The Big Picture comprises two suites of music, The Big Picture for saxophone quartet with two improvising soloists, composed by Frith in 2000, and Freedom in Fragments for saxophone quartet, composed by Frith in 1994.[1] Freedom in Fragments was originally written for the Rova Saxophone Quartet and was performed by them on Frith's 2002 solo album Freedom in Fragments.[2]
Frith does not perform on The Big Picture.