April 14, 2011 - 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.
August 24, 2010 - 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.
January 27, 2000 - 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."
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