Listen, above, to extracts from each track of the new Bill Frisell Lee Townsend-produced album When You Wish Upon a Star due in late-January in the US and February internationally.

The guitarist during 2015 unveiled this film and TV music-themed project at a concert in New York.

The When You Wish Upon a Star band (l-r): Eyvind Kang, Thomas Morgan, Bill Frisell, Rudy Royston and Petra Haden. Photo: billfrisell.com

Issued by the Sony owned and distributed jazz label OKeh this latest album by the prolific Frisell, one of the biggest global jazz stars whose career goes back to his 1980s days as a leader on ECM, arrives two and a half years years on from Big Sur and not long after the more recent Guitar in the Space Age.