Jazz Articles about Bill Banfield

About Bill Banfield

Album Review

Bill Banfield: Take Time To Listen

Read "Take Time To Listen" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
September 4, 2024

A prolific composer, educator, author and guitarist, Bill Banfield's Take Time to Listen is a bravura in-concert solo performance, comprised of 16 pop and rock classics, and thoughtful Banfield originals. The session is a display of virtuosity, taste and improvisational ability. “This Time," the opener, is an extended rhapsody over a droning ostinato. Banfield's expositions spin and devour one in an enjoyable aural web. The first standard on the session is “Summertime." Banfield's take here is darker ...

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Bill Banfield and the B-Magic Orchestra: Jazz Chamber Works

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2001

Bill Banfield marshals his compositional ideas from a number of sources including Jazz, hip–hop, blues, soul and other contemporary modes of expression. He wrote the first three selections on Jazz Chamber Works, two of which (“Her Embrace,” “Bill’s Blue”) work fairly well, in spite of a recording venue that sharpens and amplifies orchestral and individual timbres to near headache–inducing scope. The rest of the concert program at St. Paul, MN’s Landmark Center is more familiar, consisting of Rodgers and Hart’s ...