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 band took the stage at the intimate Music Hall at World Cafe Live on Walnut Street at about 8:15 for the 8 p.m. scheduled performance. Arranged in a tight semicircle with leader and guitarist Bill ...

3 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 4 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities Two leading pioneers in modern jazz unite for a night filled with innovative music.

Guitar virtuoso Julian Lage expands his horizons on View With A Room, a collection of 10 compelling original compositions out September 16 that marks his second release for Blue Note Records. Having ...

Veteran jazz-man Bill Frisell toasts his 75th birthday with a stellar line-up and questing new album, and the hope that maybe he's getting ...

"Films of Buster Keaton: The High Sign, One Week, Go West""Solos" Songline/Tone Field "The Best of Bill Frisell Vol. 1/Folk Songs"Nonesuch BEFORE HE pioneered the Americana jazz movement, before he ...

A rounded and slightly trebly tone framed by a halo of overtones, along with other sounds—fuzzy-edged or transparent, elongated or truncated, tender or piercing—trace fragments of melody. They form ...

Bill Frisell played six sets at this month’s Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tenn., each set with a different band and a different sound. One was orchestral music with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra ...

A close encounter with the Grim Reaper can spark a newsreel review of one’s entire life. In an interview last month, Bill Frisell was still feeling under the weather after tangling with COVID-19, but ...

Bill Frisell plays the guitar with near-telepathic finesse. His quiet, astute command of the instrument recalls Obi-Wan Kenobi. When Frisell waves his hand over the fret board and says, “These aren’t ...

Tonight marks the first time Bill Frisell, Ron Carter and Paul Motian will perform together as a trio in a live setting. All three are widely regarded as masters of their craft, with Carter’s resume ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...