As a followup to 2017’s acclaimed Ballet: The Music of Michael Gibbs, Seattle-based trumpeter Cuong Vu joins forces once again with guitar great Bill Frisell, bassist Luke Bergman and drummer Ted Poor on the boundary-pushing quartet outing for RareNoise Records, Change in the Air. With all the members of the quartet contributing compositions, this one finds the four participants on equal footing on ten adventurous originals.

From Poor’s dreamy, noirish opener “All That’s Left of Me Is You” and his lonesome echo-laden waltz “Alive” to Bergman’s dynamic “Must Concentrate,” Frisell’s delicate “Look, Listen” and his beguiling heartland melody “Long Ago” and Vu’s angular “Round and Round” and his edgy and electrified “March of the Owl and the Bat,” these four stellar musicians are truly on one accord and dealing with a rare level of nuance and depth of communication on Change in the Air.
 

Personnel and Tracklist:

Cuong Vu - trumpet
Bill Frisell - guitar
Luke Bergman - bass, additional guitars
Ted Poor - drums, fender rhodes

1. All That's Left Of Me Is You
2. Alive
3. Look, Listen
4. Must Concentrate
5. Lately
6. Round And Round
7. March Of The Owl And The Bat
8. Round And Round (Back Around)
9. Long Ago
10. Far From Here

3, 9, 10 composed by Bill Frisell
6, 7, 8 composed by Cuong Vu
4 composed by Luke Bergman
1, 2, 5 composed by Ted Poor
 
Recorded May 14, 15, 16  2017 at London Bridge Studio, Seattle
Recorded by Julian Anderson 
Mixed by Luke Bergman 
Mastered by Nich Wilbur at Anacortes Mastering
 
Executive Producer for RareNoiseRecords : Giacomo Bruzzo 
Artwork and Design by Petulia Mattioli
 
Cuong Vu is a Yamaha Artist
 
Bill Frisell appears courtesy of OKeh Records, a Sony Music Entertainment label
Bill Frisell uses D’Addario strings
Bill Frisell’s management: SONGTONE LLC,  Phyllis Oyama - Lee Townsend 

RELEASE DATE : SEPTEMBER 28TH 2018  

Cat.No.: RNR091 (4 Panel CD Digipack) / RNR091LP (Gatefold Double Vinyl - Heavyweight)