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New York's Blue Note club celebrates 30 years with jazz festival

The Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City will host more than 80 shows during the month of June as part of the inaugural Blue Note Jazz Festival. The Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City will host more than 80 shows during the month of June as part of the inaugural Blue Note Jazz Festival.

Q&A: Bill Frisell on "Beautiful Dreamers," Vic Chesnutt and naming instrumentals

The list of immediately identifiable guitarists working in mostly instrumental music rarely grows. Pat Metheny, Leo Kottke, John Fahey and Ralph Towner have been on the list since the 1970s, and right about 1991 Bill Frisell joined them at the top. In '91 and '92, Frisell released 'Where in the World?' and 'Have a Little Faith,' two albums that catapulted him as distinctive and personal, yet experimental and accessible. // Tour dates at SoundSpike The list of immediately identifiable guitarists working in mostly instrumental music rarely grows. Pat Metheny, Leo Kottke, John Fahey and Ralph Towner have been on the list since the 1970s, and right about 1991 Bill Frisell joined them at the top. In '91 and '92, Frisell released "Where in the World?" and "Have a Little Faith," two albums that catapulted him as distinctive and personal, yet experimental and accessible.

Pearl Jam spearheads school benefit show

Seattle-based artists Pearl Jam, Presidents of the United States of America, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, and Bill Frisell will join forces for a March concert to benefit a local school.

Bill Frisell Brings New Septet Into The Studio

Guitarist Bill Frisell goes back in the studio with producer Lee Townsend in February, recording septet music that fuses his recent country/bluegrass period with jazz horn writing that is similar to his arrangements on last year's "The Sweetest Punch: Songs Of Elvis Costello And Burt Bacharach."