“Stand Up, Sit Down” The Westerlies Play Bill Frisell Album Release Show

ARTIST AS CURATOR Curated by The Westerlies Riley Mulerkar, trumpet Chloe Rowlands, trumpet Andy Clausen, trombone Addison-Maye-Saxon, trombone The Grammy-nominated brass quartet known for playing with the precision of a string quartet and the audacity of a rock band performs new arrangements of works by the celebrated jazz guitarist and composer Bill Frisell from their forthcoming album, Stand Up, Sit Down: The Music of Bill Frisell, Vol. 2. The second volume in their career-spanning retrospective of Frisell’s compositions sheds new light on old songs while firmly planting Frisell in the canon of American Concert Music in the lineage of Ives, Copland and Ellington. “An arty quartet…mixing ideas from jazz, new classical, and Appalachian folk” (The New York Times), The Westerlies have upended presumptions of the brass tradition to create music that is “folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous” (NPR Music).