Jazz Articles about Bill Frisell

Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan 'Small Town Duo' at Piacenza Jazz Fest 2023

by Danilo Codazzi
April 28, 2023

Big Ears Festival 2023

by Mark Sullivan
April 17, 2023

Big Ears Festival Knoxville, Tennesse March 30-April 2, 2023 The second full edition after the pandemic found the Big Ears Festival still growing in attendance. Organizers responded by increasing the number of venues, including new ones like the Knoxville Civic Auditorium and ones that had not been used for some time, like The Point. The city supported the festival by offering a dedicated free trolley line that stopped at most venues, giving festival attendees more ...

Julian Lage: View With A Room

by Dan McClenaghan
October 20, 2022

View With A Room looks in on two generations of American guitarists; the younger generation is represented by Julian Lage, the leader of the effort, and the older generation by Bill Frisell, who sits in on seven of the ten original Lage tunes ("Echo" is co-written by Lage and the set's bassist Jorge Roeder). Following up on Lage's 2021 Blue Note Records debut, Squint (and let's give the label's boss, Don Was, a big tip of the hat ...

Charles Lloyd: Trios: Chapel

by Dan McClenaghan
July 30, 2022

Blue Note Records has a history of boasting strong stables of players. In the 1950s and 60s, we could look to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Wayne Shorter--and if ever there was an incomplete list compiled, that one is it. Time rolls on. Twenty years (or thereabouts) into the new millennium, the label hosts an all-star roster once again--pianist Gerald Clayton, saxophonist Melissa Aldana, sax man Immanuel Wilkins, guitarist Julian Lage, and--to ...

Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer

by Maurizio Comandini
July 4, 2022

Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer Philip Watson 548 Pagine ISBN: 978-0-571036166-3 Faber 2022 Per la biografia di uno dei più importanti artisti degli ultimi 50 anni serviva un autore fuori dal coro e Philip Watson lo è di sicuro. Noto per la sua attività di giornalista (Esquire, Telegraph, Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer, Irish Times Magazine, Sunday Tribune, The Wire) è incredibilmente al suo primo libro. Incredibilmente anche perché alla prova dei fatti se la ...

The Bill Frisell Trio+1 at Roulette in Brooklyn

by Dave Kaufman
June 6, 2022

Bill Frisell brought his Trio to Roulette in Brooklyn on Friday (May 27, 2022). He has a lengthy history with the venue dating back to his early days in New York City (late 1970s/early 1980s) when Roulette was situated in lower Manhattan and served as a forum for up-and-coming adventurous artists. On this occasion, the Trio was joined by alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins. Frisell has amassed an extraordinary and remarkably diverse body of work over 40 years. However, relatively few ...

A Focus On Frisell Plus New Releases

by Bob Osborne
May 26, 2022

Guitar maestro Bill Frisell is featured on two albums this week. Firstly a 2015 release from Michael Gibbs & The NDR Big Band who perform a Frisell setlist. Secondly, on the new album from Ches Smith. There are also new album releases from Out To Dinner, Jane Ira Bloom & Mark Helias, Ariane Racicot, and, the trio of Mario Salvador, Marcos Morales, & Yasel Muñoz. In addition there's a brand new single from the Igor Willcox Quartet.Playlist Show ...