Results for "Bill Frisell"

"Mama Rosa" Brian Blade Coming in April

January 30, 2009

BRIAN BLADE * MAMA ROSA * The debut singer/songwriter recording On Tuesday, April 21, 2009, Brian Blade will release Mama Rosa, his first recording as a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. The album is a revealing journey through a thirteen-song cycle about family, loved ones, travels and a sense that these things have to be ...

Bill Frisell at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA

by Lyn Horton
January 24, 2009

Bill Frisell Iron Horse Northampton, Massachusetts July 13, 2009 When performing alone, a musician has to work really hard, since the sound produced cannot be interwoven within the sounds other band members create. The soloist is virtually right out there in the same space as the audience. The musician's ...

August Brown Jim Hall & Bill Frisell

January 5, 2009

Hemispheres (ArtistShare) Bill Frisell with Jim Hall. There seems to be a perception in modern jazz that free playing must be harsh and grating or at least difficult to absorb on first listen. With a number of inside-out improvisations mixed with respectfully reshuffled standards, this jazz guitar summit between 50-year veteran Jim Hall and Americana-dusted experimentalist ...

History, Mystery

By Bill Frisell

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Imagination; Probability Cloud; Probability Cloud Part 2; Out Of Body; Struggle; A Momentary Suspension Of Doubt; Onward; Baba Drame; What We Need; A Change Is Gonna Come; Jacky-ing; Show Me; Boo And Shout; Struggle Part 2; Heal; Another Momentary Suspension Of Doubt; Probability Cloud (Reprise). CD2: Monroe; Lazy Robinson; Question #1; Answer #1; Faces; Sub-Conscious Lee; Monroe Part 2; Question #2; Lazy Robinson Part 2; What We Need Part 2; Waltz For Baltimore; Answer #2; Monroe Part 3.

All Hat

By Bill Frisell

Label: EmArcy
Released: 2008
Track listing: John Hardy; Opening Theme; Meet the Stantons; Chrissie's Fall; Peckerwood; Hardy Race; Empty Barn; Stable Scene; Sting; Etta Interlude; Theme version 2; Chrissie's Theme; Theme version 3; Empty Barn part 2; Stanton Theme; Interlude 2; John Hardy/Ray Returns to Etta; Ray Driving; Empty Barn part 3; Theme version 4; Ray and Etta; Jackson's Epiphany; Hardy Bar Song; Theme 5/Waltz; Interlude 3; Hardy Duet; Chrissie in the Meadow; Sonny's Losing Montage; Last Race; Etta's Theme; End Credits.

Solos

By Bill Frisell

Label: Songline/Tonefield
Released: 2008

London Jazz Festival 2008

by Frederick Bernas
December 2, 2008

London Jazz Festival 2008 London, England Nov. 14-23, 2008 Ken Vandermark, Barry Guy, Mark SandersThe VortexNovember 14 In a meticulously unplanned concert, the music often seemed like a sonic battle between these three renowned improvisers. Sporting a black fitted tee and a hairstyle that could be straight from the ...

La La Means I Love You

Featuring the music of Bill Frisell
Duration: 9:58
October 4, 2008

Bill Frisell: History, Mystery

by Matthew Miller
September 14, 2008

For an artist rooted in sound and atmosphere, change occurs, more often than not, through Re-contextualization. Miles Davis embodied this over a career of brilliant juxtapositions and, in this way, Bill Frisell is his closest contemporary. The 58 year-old guitarist chooses collaborators carefully, employing them as foils to revolve around the swirling gravitation of his haunting, ...

Bill Frisell: History, Mystery

by John Kelman
June 13, 2008

While guitarist Bill Frisell has continued to shape his uniquely skewed confluence of musical styles, it's been too long since he weighed in heavily on the compositional side. In recent years, the writing has most often served the playing, largely providing a context around which the guitarist and various-sized groups can explore, expand and mine. That's ...