The Big Picture (Fred Frith and ARTE Quartett album)

The Big Picture
Studio album by
Fred Frith and ARTE Quartett
Released2009 (2009)
RecordedJanuary 2008
StudioSwiss Radio DRS2, Zürich, Switzerland
Genre
Length63:09
LabelIntakt Records
ProducerIntakt Records
Fred Frith and ARTE Quartett chronology
Still Urban
(2009) 		The Big Picture
(2009)
Fred Frith chronology
Still Urban
(200) 		The Big Picture
(2009) 		Impur II
(2009)

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.

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.

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