Still Urban is a 2009 avant-garde jazz studio album by English guitarist and composer Fred Frith and the Swiss-based ARTE Quartett.
Still Urban is a suite of music for electric guitar, saxophone quartet, radio and ambient recordings that was composed by Frith in 2004.
[1][2] In a review of Still Urban at All About Jazz, Marc Medwin stated that while he sometimes found Frith's chamber music "not always ... satisfying", the inclusion of improvised segments on the album "keep[s] textures interesting and paces changing".
[3] Michael Rosenstein wrote in a review of the album in Cadence that Frith's composition demonstrates the "accomplished flexibility" of the ARTE Quartett.
[4] He said the use of field recordings and the "jagged textures" of Frith's guitar never dominates the mix, but provides a platform for the quartet's "warm reed sonorities".