It’s rare to find a band that so naturally assimilates its individual voices to strike a collective palette.
Bill-Frisell
Film Review: Being and Time in “Truth or Consequences”
This is a thoughtful, surprisingly moving, and extremely ambitious film, one that employs an innovative style and some unconventional pacing to explore an unusually complex philosophical and emotional landscape.
Jazz Concert and Album Review: Guitarist Bill Frisell — Mingling the Sublime and the Stimulating
Leave it to guitarist Bill Frisell — he always knows where the musical goodies are to be found.
Jazz LP Review: Newvelle Records’ Sensational Season Four
These records are filled with music from some of the most intriguing and, indeed, sought after, jazz musicians playing today.
Jazz LP Review: Newvelle Records — Sounds Sweet and Clear
Newvelle Records’ taste seems to be flawless.
Jazz CD Review: “Maid With the Flaxen Hair” — Mandatory Listening
Every guitarist should listen carefully to this album. And then maybe some Johnny Smith.
Jazz CD Survey: Snapshots and Concepts, Summer 2018
A baker’s dozen of recordings worth hearing . . . maybe even owning.
Jazz CD Review: Bill Frisell — “Music IS”
One marvels at Bill Frisell’s improvisations, which can be both surprising and songful.
Jazz Review: Bill Frisell’s Americana Dreams
Bill Frisell and his quartet performed a program of well-worn American hits whose juxtapositions allowed you to make your own cross-references and draw your own conclusions.
Jazz Album Review: Playing the Music Eclectic
For fans of jazz, world music, Americana — in short, for fans of all the genres guitarist Bill Frisell has explored over the past decade — “East/West” is a must. By James Marcus Will the real Bill Frisell please stand up? It’s a question his admirers have been asking with increasing frequency over the past […]