Bill Frisell News

"Keep Your Eyes Open" "Raise Four" "Throughout/Poem for Eva" "Lovesick Blues" "Ventura" November 26, 2009 from WBGO - It's true: Bill Frisell wears glasses, dresses casually and is modest and soft-spoken in person.

Composer Mike Gibbs's festival appearance surely made him part of the week's most unusual trio.

As an instrumental virtuoso with a wildly curious nature, the 47-year-old songwriter, banjo player, and guitarist is known for genre cross-pollination: He has played bluegrass with Austin band the Bad Livers, jazz with Bill Frisell, and country with Robert Earl Keen.

Patrick Jarenwattananon at A Blog Supreme has thrown down the gauntlet once again, this time asking which jazz albums should be included in a list of the decade's finest.

Time was when the prospect of a jazz soloist playing with a full symphony orchestra struck fear into the jazz-loving breast.

Thirsty Ear Recordings How best to describe slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein 's singular quartet Sex Mob? Maybe we should start with mercurial musical magician Bernstein himself, whose exotic career as sideman, musical director, arranger and composer has included ten years with John Lurie 's Lounge Lizards and stints alongside everyone from Bill ...

Producers are studio wizards, the men - why are they always men? - behind the scenes, laying the sonic foundation for our favorite albums.

The news about Wilco's appearance at the 2010 Savannah Music Festival has spread like wildfire, but there are lots of other shows worth talking about on the just-announced schedule.

Steve Dawson is an accomplished Canadian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Specializing in slide and fingerstyle guitar, pedal steel, lap steel, banjo and other stringed instruments, he is in-demand as a live performer, session musician, and producer.

Michael Disfarmer was an odd, curmudgeonly fellow from the WWII-era Midwest whose hobby was taking photographs of the various townsfolk from his hometown of Heber Springs, AK.

MUSICAL POSTCARDS ARE always par for course for guitarist Bill Frisell . Through his sublime reconciliation of jazz, country, rock and blues, he creates picturesque soundscapes that transport listeners to small-town America where it seems as if time has stopped.

THE acclaimed Richard Iles/Tim France Quintet - boasting a trumpet and sax frontline - makes its first appearance in Waen this month for the first in a new series of jazz concerts.

New York vibist Steve Shapiro and Nashville guitarist have released their third recording, Backward Compatible , on the Apria label.

Track Scary Americans Artist/Band Steve Shapiro & Pat Bergeson with Annie Sellick Duration 5:08 Album Backward Compatible Record Label Vibraphonic/Apria Records Description Respected studio musicians from New York and Nashville, Steve Shapiro & Pat Bergeson have worked with artists such as: Alison Krauss, Steely Dan, Bill Frisell, Lyle Lovett, Bill ...

One of the more distinctive voices among a new breed of Hammond B-3 organ players on the jazz scene, Sam Yahel has earned the top spot in Down Beat's annual International Critics Poll as a Talent Deserving Of Recognition for the past four consecutive years.

Acclaimed Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel Gets Intimate With 'Standards Trio: Reflections" On The Wommusic Label Trio session with bassist Eric Revis and drummer Eric Harland set for release October 27 'There's this kind of fluidity and architecture in the lines that he plays that I don't think I've heard anybody else do.

"Disfarmer" is a tour de force of jazz creativity by Bill Frisell. Inspired by the stark photography of Mike Disfarmer that captured the spirit of "American Gothic" in the Ozarks of the late 1930s and early '40s, Frisell uses a variety of electric and acoustic guitars and electronic effects to create a profoundly eerie merger of old-timey mountain ...

Patrick Jarenwattananon, proprietor of NPR's A Blog Supreme has asked an interesting questio n of his readers: name five albums you would recommend to somebody looking to get into modern jazz.

Erik Friedlander is something of an evangelist for the cello, expanding it into previously unknown territories: in Middle-Eastern pop, say, or with the Mountain Goats , in noisy jazz ensembles with avant-jazz/new musicA composer John Zorn , or as leader of his own ensembles.

Sam Yahel is best known as an organist who has performed and recorded with Joshua Redman , Bill Frisell , Norah Jones , Lizz Wright , Ryan Kisor , Madeleine Peyroux and many others.