Bill Frisell's career as a guitarist and composer has spanned more than 40 years and many celebrated recordings, whose catalog has been cited by Downbeat as "the best recorded output of the decade." ...

Frisell is well-known for his collaborations with numerous prolific musicians. But with his new album, he's playing every instrument and composing... Guitarist Bill Frisell On 'Music IS' And ...

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 ...

Of the many artists whose music registers with a particular symbiotic and ambient resonance at the historic Lobero Theatre, gentle-spirited guitar hero Bill Frisell ranks high on the list. Frisell’s ...

A 4.8 earthquake had just jostled Bill Frisell’s home in Brooklyn, but the temblor wasn’t strong enough to rattle the guitarist’s preternatural calm. With an epicenter about 50 miles east in New ...

For an artist rooted in sound and atmosphere, change occurs, more often than not, through Re-contextualization. Miles Davis embodied this over a career of brilliant juxtapositions and, in this way, ...

But first I want to mention something that happened last Sunday. Oak Ridge Civic Music Association (ORCMA) presented one of its perfectly fitting coffee concerts at the Chapel on the Hill, a ...

Bill Frisell has fine-tuned the tension in his life. That’s not to suggest his existence is somehow fraught – far from it; his demeanor is contemplative, avuncular, searching – but rather the ...

Over the past three decades, guitarist Bill Frisell has reinvented his identity from Naked City jazz-metal deconstructionist to folk-music interpreter, and through it all, he’s honed a unique approach ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guitarist Bill Frisell seems to have turned his career into a celebration of American music. Granted, it's a peculiar celebration -- sometimes his work suggests a funhouse mirror reflection of the ...