In Frisell’s new project, Harmony, which also, finally, marks his debut on Blue Note Records with an album in his own name, he applies that principle to working with singers. “I’m singing with my ...

Iconic guitarist-composer Bill Frisell has chosen to primarily emphasize the Americana side of his music for his debut as a leader for Blue Note Records. When Frisell organized his new band with ...

Despite decidedly left-of-center beginnings—on his own ECM discs Rambler (1985) and Lookout for Hope (1988), and in collaboration with artists including Jan Garbarek and John Zorn—guitarist Bill ...

The continually evolving guitarist Bill Frisell applies his trademark tone -- trebly lead lines and chords delivered in shards heavy on the reverb -- to a world-music conceit ungrounded by any ...

Bill Frisell started hanging out at the Denver Folklore Center somewhere around the eighth grade. The center was at its original location, on 17th Avenue and Pearl Street. It was the early ’60s, when ...

And, in essence, it works very well indeed. Heard live, this project is far more convincing than When You Wish Upon a Star from 2016, based on film themes. That was the first time Frisell had brought ...