Bill Frisell News

Guitar Player Presents Charlie Hunter Dec 15th at Yoshi's SF - Win Tickets! ,Dec 08, 2009 GP Presents is happy to help Yoshi's support jazz ace Charlie Hunter for the 10th anniversary of his Home for the Holidays series of dates.

CHARLIE HUNTER TO RELEASE GENTLEMEN, I NEGLECTED TO INFORM YOU YOU WILL NOT BE GETTING PAID ON JANUARY 12, 2010 Charlie Hunter Charlie Hunter 's latest recording effort, Gentlemen, I Neglected To Inform You You Will Not Be Getting Paid , features the jaw-dropping guitarist alongside drummer Eric Kalb , and a new horn section including trombonist ...

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

Jim Hall's idiosyncratic guitar techniques have graced albums and stages with Sonny Rollins, Bill Frisell, Bill Evans, Jimmy Guifree and many more.

Hal Weary , A Rendezvous with Deja Vu . Weary is a pianist from the west on the rise in New York City.

"Keep Your Eyes Open" "Raise Four" "Throughout/Poem for Eva" "Lovesick Blues" "Ventura" November 26, 2009 from WBGO - It's true: Bill Frisell wears glasses, dresses casually and is modest and soft-spoken in person.

Composer Mike Gibbs's festival appearance surely made him part of the week's most unusual trio.

As an instrumental virtuoso with a wildly curious nature, the 47-year-old songwriter, banjo player, and guitarist is known for genre cross-pollination: He has played bluegrass with Austin band the Bad Livers, jazz with Bill Frisell, and country with Robert Earl Keen.

Patrick Jarenwattananon at A Blog Supreme has thrown down the gauntlet once again, this time asking which jazz albums should be included in a list of the decade's finest.

Time was when the prospect of a jazz soloist playing with a full symphony orchestra struck fear into the jazz-loving breast.

Thirsty Ear Recordings How best to describe slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein 's singular quartet Sex Mob? Maybe we should start with mercurial musical magician Bernstein himself, whose exotic career as sideman, musical director, arranger and composer has included ten years with John Lurie 's Lounge Lizards and stints alongside everyone from Bill ...

Producers are studio wizards, the men - why are they always men? - behind the scenes, laying the sonic foundation for our favorite albums.

The news about Wilco's appearance at the 2010 Savannah Music Festival has spread like wildfire, but there are lots of other shows worth talking about on the just-announced schedule.

Steve Dawson is an accomplished Canadian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Specializing in slide and fingerstyle guitar, pedal steel, lap steel, banjo and other stringed instruments, he is in-demand as a live performer, session musician, and producer.

Michael Disfarmer was an odd, curmudgeonly fellow from the WWII-era Midwest whose hobby was taking photographs of the various townsfolk from his hometown of Heber Springs, AK.

MUSICAL POSTCARDS ARE always par for course for guitarist Bill Frisell . Through his sublime reconciliation of jazz, country, rock and blues, he creates picturesque soundscapes that transport listeners to small-town America where it seems as if time has stopped.

THE acclaimed Richard Iles/Tim France Quintet - boasting a trumpet and sax frontline - makes its first appearance in Waen this month for the first in a new series of jazz concerts.

New York vibist Steve Shapiro and Nashville guitarist have released their third recording, Backward Compatible , on the Apria label.

Track Scary Americans Artist/Band Steve Shapiro & Pat Bergeson with Annie Sellick Duration 5:08 Album Backward Compatible Record Label Vibraphonic/Apria Records Description Respected studio musicians from New York and Nashville, Steve Shapiro & Pat Bergeson have worked with artists such as: Alison Krauss, Steely Dan, Bill Frisell, Lyle Lovett, Bill ...

One of the more distinctive voices among a new breed of Hammond B-3 organ players on the jazz scene, Sam Yahel has earned the top spot in Down Beat's annual International Critics Poll as a Talent Deserving Of Recognition for the past four consecutive years.