Jazz Articles about Bill Frisell

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Deborah Silver: Deborah Silver with the Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks!

by Jack Bowers
June 19, 2025

Basie Rocks! A great idea? One best left on the cutting-room floor? Or perhaps a little of both? There are reasonable arguments to be made on all sides of the equation. On the one hand, this is the one and only Count Basie Orchestra, swinging in its own exceptional way. On the other, the orchestra has joined forces on every number with Mississippi-bred pop-rock singer Deborah Silver, the latest in a series of acclaimed guest vocalists that includes Ella Fitzgerald, ...

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Deborah Silver: Deborah Silver with the Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks!

by Kyle Simpler
June 6, 2025

Jazz musicians frequently cover popular songs, but few do it quite like vocalist Deborah Silver. With Basie Rocks!, Silver teams up with the iconic Count Basie Orchestra for a genre-crossing collection that you truly have to hear to believe. This is a groove-charged big band album that reimagines classic rock and pop classics through the swinging lens of traditional jazz. While that premise might sound gimmicky on paper, the result is total sonic satisfaction. Produced by ...

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Chris Cheek: Keepers of the Eastern Door

by David Weiner
May 9, 2025

In Keepers of the Eastern Door, saxophonist Chris Cheek leads a beautifully played, richly melodic and creatively curated set of performances, which split the difference between enchantment and fun. Cheek and his bandmates--Bill Frisell on guitar, Tony Scherr on bass, and Rudy Royston on drums--offer a mix of distinctive Cheek originals and unexpected takes on works by others. The covers are borrowed from genres outside the jazz and songbook repertoires, and the band outfits them with attractive new arrangements, tempos ...

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Miles Okazaki and Bill Frisell at the Miller Theater

by Paul Reynolds
April 21, 2025

Miles Okazaki and Bill Frisell The Miller Theater, Columbia University New York, NY April 15, 2025 When musicians collaborate for the first time, the setlist usually settles around shared music they love and often play. For guitarists Bill Frisell and Miles Okazaki, in their debut as a duo on Tuesday, that common ground turned out to be the compositions of Thelonious Monk. Although a generation apart--Frisell is 74 and Okazaki is 50--the two ...

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Bill Frisell Trio at Bimhuis

by Nenad Georgievski
March 12, 2025

Bill Frisell Trio Bimhuis Amsterdam, Netherlands March 1, 2025 Walking into the Bimhuis, with its striking modern architecture and intimate 250-seat setup, felt like stepping into a space tailor-made for deep musical conversations. On this particular night, those conversations were led by none other than Bill Frisell and his trio. A guitarist unlike any other, Frisell has long defied easy categorization, floating effortlessly across jazz, folk, country and avant-garde without ever losing his ...

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Bill Frisell Trio Featuring Thomas Morgan & Rudy Royston At Kino Siska

by Petra Cvelbar
March 11, 2025

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Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan, Andrew Cyrille: Taking Turns

by Neil Duggan
December 14, 2024

Despite being recorded a decade ago, this album from Danish guitarist Jakob Bro sounds as fresh and contemporary as any 2024 release. Taking Turns was originally recorded in New York in 2014; the album release was delayed by ECM Records, who initially preferred to highlight Bro's trio work. The postponement proves fortuitous, as Bro's melodic compositions create expansive soundscapes that invite his all-star sextet to explore and improvise around his delicately rendered musical themes. Bro composed the seven ...