Bill Frisell

Beatle jazz 

Chris Cheek Meets The Beatles

June 30, 2025July 1, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments Bill Frisell, Chris Cheek, From Me To You, Jazz, Keepers of the Eastern Door, Rudy Royston, The Beatles, Tony Scherr

Listen to the saxophonist’s spirited cover of “From Me To You”

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jazz Pop 

Come Away With Norah Jones All Over Again

May 10, 2022May 10, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2002, 2022, 20th Anniversary, Adam Levy, Bill Frisell, Blue Note, Blue Note Records, Brian Blade, Come Away With Me, Jesse Harris, Kevin Breit, Norah Jones, Tony Scherr

The New York jazz maven’s classic debut gets a remarkable revisit

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Festivals 

This Year’s Big Ears Festival Offered Auditory Exuberance

April 6, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Animal Collective, Annette Peacock, Big Ears Festival, Bill Callahan, Bill Frisell, Joe Henry, John Medeski, John Zorn, Kim Gordon, Low, Marc Ribot, Patti Smith, the Kronos Quartet

Patti Smith, Sparks and Kim Gordon highlight Knoxville, TN’s celebration of creative music

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Art Pop Indie Rock jazz Pop 

WATCH: Ursa Minor Meets Chad VanGaalen in “The City of Electric Light”

April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Bill Frisell, Bjork, Chad VanGaalen, Elysian Fields, Jesse Malin, Lounge Lizards, Rob Jost, Robert DiPietro, The City of Electric Light, Tonic, Tony Scherr, Ursa Minor, Velvet Elk Records

The acclaimed Downtown NYC group returns with a new album and a salute to a Sub Pop great

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Classical Psychedelics Remembrance Soundtracks and Film Scores 

Addio, Maestro: Ennio Morricone Remembered

July 13, 2020 Jeremy Shatan 0 Comments Bill Frisell, Ennio Morricone, Italian Cinema, Italian Horror, John Zorn, Mike Patton, Quentin Tarantino, RIP, Robert Quine, Sergio Leone

Assessing the invincibility of the composer’s titanic work ethic, which had him churning out scores to over 400 movies

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jazz 

ALBUMS: Dave Feels Dizzy

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Michael Toland 0 Comments Ambrose Akinmusire, Bill Frisell, Clifford Brown, Dave Douglas, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Gerald Clayton, Lee Morgan, Linda Han Oh, Miles Davis

On the excellent Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity, the NYC trumpet great pays respect to the master

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jazz 

Bill Frisell’s Harmony Hall

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 Michael Toland 0 Comments Bill Frisell, Elvis Costello, Hank Roberts, Luke Bergman, Pete Seeger, Petra Haden

As the guitarist headlines the Jazz Standard this weekend, we take a deeper look at his Blue Note debut

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African jazz Psychedelics Rock 

Ginger Baker Did Not Want To Be Remembered As The Best Drummer In Rock

October 7, 2019October 7, 2020 Jim Sullivan 2 Comments Art Blakey, Bill Frisell, Blind Faith, Charlie Haden, Cream, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Ginger Baker Trio, Hawkwind, Jack Bruce, Kofi Baker, Ltd., Masters of Reality, Max Roach, Public Image, RIP

Jim Sullivan recounts his testy interview with the legendary percussion great upon his passing at 80

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