Artist: Bill Frisell
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Bill Frisell’s Disfarmer Project – Duke University (Durham, NC)
Those rough-hewn faces…that rolling river of sound… For a still-evolving enterprise, Bill Frisell’s Disfarmer Project displayed a mighty solid foundation at Duke University. Inspired by the unconventional portrait photography of Mark Disfarmer, Frisell’s music was designed to illuminate a set of early 20th-century images, effectively making the case for their timeless quality. Frisell and company [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #43 Jan-Feb 2003
Bill Frisell – A new intersection at the crossroads
When people talk about alternative-country, they usually mean country music that’s been influenced by rock ‘n’ roll. Similarly, when folks use the term jazz-fusion, they usually mean jazz that borrows from rock. But there’s another kind of alternative-country and another kind of jazz-fusion that bring together American rural music and improvisation — and this country-jazz [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #41 Sept-Oct 2002
Bill Frisell – The Willies
The Willies would have been the ideal title for a Bill Frisell album years ago, when his dark and brooding work refused to sit still for stylistic typecastings. Frisell still performs with a diverse array of musicians, but increasingly his newer albums are of a piece; not quite jazz, not quite country, appealing major-key slices [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Bill Frisell – Ghost Town
Bill Frisell’s Ghost Town is not a desolate place where hopes blow around like tumbleweeds and memories have dried to dust, but a lyrical Utopia where the one-of-a-kind guitarist can indulge his love of glowing heartland melodies in splendid isolation. Taking a break from the illustrious crossover bands with which he has traveled through Nashville [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #25 Jan-Feb 2000
Bill Frisell – The Places Where There Are Connections
One might not be too surprised to learn that Danny Barnes of the Bad Livers has given guitar lessons to someone who once gave lessons to Lucinda Williams’ ace guitarist Kenny Vaughan — but few would fathom that the “someone” in the middle of that equation would be Bill Frisell, one of the most renowned [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #10 July-Aug 1997
Bill Frisell – Nashville
Bill Frisell is a guitar genius. Any of his multitude of collaborators — from John Zorn and Arto Lindsay to Elvis Costello and Marianne Faithfull — can attest to that. What’s becoming increasingly clear, though, is that he is also a brilliant composer. A bona fide American original, Frisell has found kindred spirits in the [...]
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