Results for "Bill Frisell"

Ben Goldberg's Bag: Tin Hat & Go Home

by Dan Bilawsky
March 27, 2010

Ben Goldberg's music has never followed a set course or formula and the forward-thinking clarinetist always sticks to his guns when making artistic decisions. This has often resulted in positive press for his innovative work and it appears to have propelled him to take control of his own destiny. BAG Production Records is Goldberg's new, self-created ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Frisell

March 18, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Bill Frisell's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Bill FrisellOver the years, Frisell has contributed to the work of such collaborators as Paul Motian, John Zorn, Elvis Costello, Ginger Baker, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Suzanne Vega, Loudon Wainwright III, Van Dyke Parks, Vic ...

Wildwood Flower & Poem For Eva

Featuring the music of Bill Frisell
Duration: 7:32
March 18, 2010

Remembrance: Paying Tribute Through The Art Of Jazz Composition

by Dan Bilawsky
March 15, 2010

Paying tribute to the dearly departed is simply a part of life. We honor them with words and we pay our respects through our actions as we help to keep their memory alive. In music, we pay tribute to the dead through the medium that we know best...sound. Whether we use “requiem," “threnody," “ode," “elegy," or ...

Eric Vloeimans Fugimundi, Ottawa, Canada, March 8, 2010

by John Kelman
March 15, 2010

Eric Vloeimans FugimundiOttawa International Jazz Festival Fall/Winter SeriesNAC Fourth Stage, Ottawa, CanadaMarch 8, 2010For its second-to-last date in its 2009/2010 Fall/Winter Series, the Ottawa International Jazz Festival continued its perennial support of the Dutch music scene by bringing trumpeter Eric Vloeimans' Fugimundi trio to the Fourth Stage of the National Arts ...

Bill Frisell Debuts New Trio at Largo

March 12, 2010

Highway Rider

by John Kelman
March 9, 2010

For a pianist who not only demonstrated remarkable promise, but actually began delivering on it at a very early stage in his career with what would ultimately become his five-part Art of the Trio (Warner Bros.) series, Brad Mehldau's side projects have--with the exception of the solo Live in Tokyo (Nonesuch, 2004)--met with mixed reactions. Perhaps ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 22, 2010

March 2, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 233 247 -14 0 56 1 7 2 1 3 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 221 257 -36 4 63 1 5 3 3 8 John Stein Raising The Roof (Whaling City Sound) 194 182 ...

Paul Motian / Chris Potter / Jason Moran: Lost In A Dream

by John Kelman
March 2, 2010

Though he's led larger ensembles, drummer Paul Motian seems to be most comfortable--or, at the very least, most interested--in working within the particular confines and freedoms of the trio. Whether it's his quarter century old group with guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist Joe Lovano, or the early saxophone/bass/drums trio of Dance (ECM, 1978) and Le Voyage ...

Steve Raegele: Last Century

by Pascal-Denis Lussier
February 17, 2010

Montreal guitarist Steve Raegele's debut, Last Century, with bassist Miles Perkin and drummer Thom Gossage, marks the beginning of a career that will, no doubt, be looked back upon despite being disregarded at this stage. The album doesn't mark Raegele's launching point, however, but the due reward of a turbulent turning point, as the guitarist has ...