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"Bill Frisell transformed the electric guitar. Like Jimi Hendrix and Charlie Christian before him, Frisell belongs on the short list of innovators whose distinctive sounds and fresh ideas moved the instrument to the creative center." - NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE, May 2011
Critically Acclaimed album projects in 2011:
• New CD, All We Are Saying, explores the songs of John Lennon, Out September 27, 2011 (Ranked among the best albums of 2011 by Pazz & Jop Music Critics Poll)
• Sign of Life: Music for the 858 Quartet released April 26, 2011. The album features Jenny Scheinman (violin), Eyvind Kang (viola), and Hank Roberts (cello) (Ranked among the best albums of 2011 by Pazz & Jop Music Critics Poll)
• Buddy Miller's Majestic Silver Strings released March 1, 2011. Featured on this album are fellow guitarists Marc Ribot and Greg Leisz, as well as guest vocalists Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, Lee Ann Womack, Chocolate Genius and Julie Miller (One of Roots Music Report's Most Radio Airplayed Albums in Roots Country and ranked among the best albums of 2011 by Pazz & Jop Music Critics Poll)
• Lagrimas Mexicanas with Brazilian singer-songwriter / guitarist / percussionist Vinicius Cantuária, released January 25, 2011 (Ranked among the best albums by Pazz & Jop Music Critics Poll and Essential Acoustic Albums of 2011)
Bill has been named as an Inaugural Artistic Director for the new permanent SFJAZZ Center. Along with fellow Artistic Directors Regina Carter, Jason Moran, John Santos and Miguel Zenón, he will oversee programming and performances beginning Fall 2012 at the West Coast's first stand-alone facility designed expressly for jazz.
"the best recorded output of the decade." - DOWNBEAT
"Frisell has carved out a comfortable - and, let’s be honest, quite lovely - niche that finds his alternately stinging or soothing guitar tone stirring up a gorgeous and unique mix of rustic Americana and slow-boiling jazz." - LA Times review of CD Beautiful Dreamers (2010) produced by Lee Townsend
BILL FRISELL has collaborated with artists as diverse as Elvis Costello, Bono, T-Bone Burnett, Paul Simon, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, Brian Eno, Ry Cooder and many more - a testament to his virtuosity as a guitarist, bandleader and composer.
GRAMMY winner and three-time nominee including a 2009 nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.
10-time Best Guitarist winner in the DOWNBEAT Critics Poll (including 2011) and three-time DOWNBEAT Readers Poll winner for Best Guitarist.
10-time Best Guitarist winner in the DOWNBEAT Critics Poll (including 2011) and three-time DOWNBEAT Readers Poll winner for Best Guitarist. Scoring high in 3 categories in the Readers Poll in 2011; placing in the top 10 Jazz Albums of the Year for Beautiful Dreamers, in the top 5 for Best Guitarist and among the Best Beyond Albums for his collaboration with Vinicius Cantuária, Lagrimas Mexicanas.
Jazz Awards Guitarist of the Year 2008 & 2009 and Guitarist of the Year Nominee 2010 & 2011
(full biography at billfrisell.com/bio) |
