Results for "Bill Frisell"

3Play+: American Waltz

by Mark Corroto
May 24, 2009

The cleverly titled American Waltz might deserve a more fitting inscription as American Quilt," because woven into the admirably crafted compositions of leader/pianist Josh Rosen are all the elements that are American music. Rosen, a faculty member at Berklee College of Music, lists Bob Moses, Bennie Wallace, and }}George Schuller}} as performance partners. Besides ...

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Featuring the music of Bill Frisell
Duration: 10:00
May 24, 2009

JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!

May 18, 2009

Mark your calendar! 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards June 16, 2009 3:00-6:00pm at The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street New York, NY Join us at the JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards as we... Announce our 2009 award winners (see nominees below) Honor winners and nominees ...

Bill Frisell Trio | 05.05.09 | Australia

May 15, 2009

By: Alex Anastas Bill Frisell Trio :: 05.05.09 :: The Studio at the Sydney Opera House :: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Bill Frisell Just hours before, Circular Quay's foreshore was most likely a scene of the tourism marketplace thriving, throngs of camera-toting wanderers ...

Bill Frisell: Hemispheres & The Stars Are All New Songs, Vol. 1

by Kurt Gottschalk
May 9, 2009

Jim Hall & Bill Frisell with Scott Colley & Joey Baron Hemispheres ArtistShare 2008 Jakob Bro The Stars Are All New Songs, Vol. 1 Loveland Records 2008 Bill Frisell no ...

Arve Henriksen: Cartography

by Dan McClenaghan
May 8, 2009

The components of sound that make-up Arve Henriksen's Cartography, the trumpeter's debut as a leader on ECM, reads like a hyper-processed, low-nutrition, junk food for the ear brew: samples, treatments, synthesizer, dictaphone, programming, beats, voice samples. It is a stew of musical inputs, a layering of sounds that mixes ambient and electronica with snippets of soaring ...

Mark O'Leary: Plucking the Flower

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 29, 2009

Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary emerged on the global improvised music scene in the last few years, pushing his bold vision and broad scope of musicality through constantly-changing collaborations. O'Leary can cross easily between genres, from progressive, synth-laden rock and seventies fusion to free jazz and abstract soundscapes.The guitarist's encyclopedic interests and remarkable prolificacy are ...

Carnegie Hall Offers Recordings of Recently Commissioned Works Online

April 23, 2009

“Encore" Hearings Now Available Here Works for Download or Streaming Include Bright Sheng's Sweet May Again, Kayhan Kalhor's The Silent City, David Bruce's Piosenki, Evan Ziporyn's Sulvasutra, and Gabriela Lena Frank's Ritmos Anchinos Carnegie Hall today announced that audio recordings of select new works, recently commissioned by Carnegie Hall, have been made available for free download ...

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - World Premiere

by Eric Benson
April 22, 2009

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseWorld PremiereThe Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln CenterNew York, NYApril 15, 2009 The Jazz Wars are over. Now what? A new documentary asks. Since the early 1980s, jazz has been engaged in its own nonviolent, low-intensity civil war. Decentralized and ...

Drummer/Singer/Songwriter Brian Blade Interviewed at AAJ

April 21, 2009

Known in the jazz world for his slick and superlative drumming skills, Brian Blade is engaged in making other musical statements these days. Statements that are outside the jazz genre, but are an essential part of this enlightened man and serious musician whose musical tastes run “between Bela Bartok and Wayne Shorter to Al Green," who, ...