While music is captive to constant recycling, nostalgia is out of fashion. We live in the now and keep looking forward as life coaches remind us that wallowing in a past that we can’t change is redundant. Not so with Bill Frisell – revered American guitarist, composer and Grammy Award winner. His latest album When You Wish Upon a Star is a compilation of his reimaginings of diverse influential film and television themes from his childhood and adolescence, and the concert of the same name is such a mesmerising distillation of memory that breaking it down into its parts with song introductions and explanations would have been jarring.

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The quartet of musicians on show were impressive. While Petra Haden (daughter of legendary Ornette Coleman bassist Charlie Haden) provided the vocal glue, the complexity of the rhythms and improvisation underpinning her were breathtaking. Rudy Royston’s versatility with sticks and brushes complemented by Thomas Morgan’s frenetic finger work on bass fused seamlessly with Frisell whose guitar arrangements varied from quiet and subtle as on the title track through to rock rhythms on Once Upon a Time in the West...