Jakob Bro’s Bill Frisell collaboration finally saw the light, Cécile McLorin Salvant drew on her teenage pop memories and Anthony Braxton looked back to 1985 ...

Bill Frisell has captured the imagination of music fans of many types, since his first records in the 1980s. He is the world's favorite alternative take on guitar. Yet, he may be, instead, the next ...

In the 1970s guitarist Bill Frisell was a student of jazz composer and arranger Michael Gibbs at Boston's Berklee College of Music. This is the album some Frisell fans have been wishing for. Jazz ...

Not long after the film Bill Frisell: A Portrait begins to roll, Bonnie Raitt—one of the many high profile names that lend their thoughts about one of the most influential guitarists and composers of ...

Mention Bill Frisell’s name to any guitar player, and you’re likely to get an earful. The seminal guitarist, composer, and arranger has lent his chops to more recording sessions than we can even begin ...

Guitarist Bill Frisell is a postmodern jazz wizard who embraces multiple genres, including country and popular music, so he’s no stranger to singers. But HARMONY, the quartet he’s bringing to ...

Many musicians claim their work is “unclassifiable,” but the term applies especially to Bill Frisell, who over the years has been filed under “jazz,” “rock,” “Americana” and even “classical.” The ...

The continually evolving guitarist Bill Frisell applies his trademark tone -- trebly lead lines and chords delivered in shards heavy on the reverb -- to a world-music conceit ungrounded by any ...

Guitarist and composer Bill Frisell has lived most of his life in Seattle, but the Twin Cities has become a second home of sorts for him. Frisell has performed many times over the past 25 years at the ...

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 is a soft-spoken guy who does a lot of talking with his guitar — and its pedals and effects. So perhaps it's appropriate that he recently issued an album called All We Are Saying, an ...