Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article is about the most eclectic, electric, and eccentric guitarist alive. An artist with no equal. A musician who plays ...

Bill Frisell considers himself something of a guitar glutton. "I've got a bad problem. I have way too many guitars," he says with a smile via Zoom from his New York home, his muscles still sore from ...

In an extraordinarily varied career Bill Frisell has made just a handful of trio recordings as leader, which is perhaps surprising given how frequently he performs in such a setting. In recent years ...

On Oct. 19, Bill Frisell, along with Michael Gibbs, was awarded an honorary doctor of music degree by Berklee College of Music during a concert celebrating Gibbs’ 80th birthday. The concert reunited ...

"Petra Haden and Bill Frisell" Sovereign Artists Bill Frisell is not only one of the most inventive jazz guitarists of his generation but also one of the most versatile and prolific. The 53-year-old ...

Bill Frisell has announced his fifth Blue Note album, In My Dreams. Set to release on Feb. 27, the celebrated jazz guitarist’s next project assembles a supergroup of his longtime collaborators, with ...

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 ...

Bill Frisell performed a “Red Sofa Concert” for the New York Guitar Festival. The Grammy-winning guitarist delivered a song from his own catalog as well as a handful of genre-spanning covers. Frisell ...

Bill Frisell has made no secret of his fondness for the music of James Bond films. An elite jazz guitarist with a gift for shadowy lyricism, he recorded the title theme to You Only Live Twice a few ...

“The first thing that comes to mind when listening to Bill Frisell is constant surprise,” a thoughtful voice utters behind an opening Frisell montage. “He’s never predictable. He sometimes makes me ...

Bill Frisell owns sixty-three guitars, according to his biographer. Both parts of that sentence are surprising. It’s surprising that Frisell, whose records are linked by the tone that he gets from his ...