Bill Frisell
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Essay by RJ Smith, High Fidelity, July 1986
Country used to be a music of the dispossessed. If you look hard enough, you'll find it still is. ...
Interview by Gene Santoro, Downbeat, April 1987
BILL FRISELL'S eerily haunting voice on guitar has combined with his acute sensitivity and thorough training to make him one of the most in-demand of ...
Bill Frisell Quartet: Look Out For Hope (ECM)
Review by Gene Santoro, Spin, May 1988
BILL FRISELL IS the Clark Kent of the electric guitar. Soft-spoken and self-effacing in conversation, he apparently breathes in lungfuls of raw fire when he ...
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Creem, June 1993
SEATTLE'S MOST incendiary and intriguing electric guitarist has nothing to do with that city's rock scene. ...
Bill Frisell Plays Buster Keaton: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, London
Preview by John L. Walters, The Guardian, 29 October 1994
Go West (1925), Sherlock Junior (1924), The High Sign (1921), One Week (1920). Wednesday November 2 1994, 7.30pm ...
Bill Frisell: America Lost and Found
Profile by Richard Gehr, The Village Voice, 4 December 1994
GUITARIST BILL Frisell is the cowlick on the towhead of American music. In his most signature mode, he favors a languorous, spacious sound that combines ...
Bill Frisell: Let your fingers do the talking
Interview by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 2001
Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell has worked with everyone from Chet Baker to Marianne Faithful. So why start taking lessons now? Richard Williams met him ...
Bill Frisell: Blues Dream (Nonesuch)
Review by Gene Santoro, Chamber Music, June 2001
WITH BLUES DREAM (Nonesuch), an album that interprets the blues as the foundation for jazz, bluegrass, Thelonious Monk, soul, Western Swing, heavy metal, and other ...
Review by Mike Barnes, The Wire, March 2005
RICHTER 858 begins explosively with guitar, violin, viola and cello producing an atonal storm akin to George Crumb's Black Angels. This cedes to slow guitar ...
Profile and Interview by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 17 July 2010
Admired by Radiohead, friend of Godard, Manfred Eicher is the founder of ECM, one of the most successful jazz labels in the world. He tells ...
Book Excerpt by Philip Watson, Faber, March 2022
An extract from Chapter 1 of Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music (Faber) ...
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