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 ...

In the dialogue that precedes the song “Move On” in Sunday in the Park with George, Dot asks the title character if he’s working on something new. He says he isn’t and that he don’t have anything to ...

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I'm Not a Farmerhas a sweeping country feel, tinged with resignation. It'squickly followed by the intimate, acoustically pickedSmall Town, a short composition that suggests a yearning to get outside ...

OK, so I tried the Pandora Radio thing again. After the first tune from my Marc Ribot channel, an excellent live version of his really screwy take on Jimi Hendrix' “The Wind Cries Mary," we ended up ...

When Bill Frisell was young, he says remembers watching the “Mickey Mouse Club“ on his family's new television. “The leader of the Mouseketeers was this guy named Jimmy and he'd play a guitar and I ...

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 ...

Bill Frisell will be playing in a trio at the Egg in Albany on Saturday night. Guitarist Bill Frisell performs onstage during 58th Donostiako Jazzaldia Jazz Festival on July 22, 2023, in San Sebastian ...

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 ...

When guitarist Bill Frisell was a high-school student in Denver, he bought a copy of DownBeat magazine with saxophonist Charles Lloyd on the cover. Soon after, he heard Mr. Lloyd lead a quartet that ...

Bill Frisell owns an abundant and impressive collection of electric guitars — as you’d imagine. Among them, however, is one that’s particularly close to his heart: a blue Telecaster owned by the late ...