Biography

Unique guitar stylist Bill Frisell emerged in the 1980s as part of New York's downtown progressive jazz scene and as a staple artist on the ECM label. Over the subsequent decades, his sonic adventures have landed him at the forefront of jazz guitarists--in fact, with his distinctive musical personality and arsenal of electronic effects, Frisell has helped reshape the concepts of both jazz and guitar.

Top Tracks

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• 858-4

• A Change Is Gonna Come

• Across The Universe

• Alias

• All The People, All The Time

• Aquela Mulher

• Arkansas, Pt. 1

• Baba Drame

• Before We Were Born/some Song And Dance

• Better Than A Machine

• Big Bob

• Big Shoe

• Blues Dream

• Blues For Los Angeles

• Boubacar

• Cadillac 1959

• Chain Of Fools

• Come Together

• Convict 13

• Crazy

• Dead Ranch

• Deep Dead Blue

• Eighty-one

• Eli

• Fields Of Alfalfa

• Go Jake

• Go West: Busy Street Scene

• Go West: Cops And Fireman

• Go West: Eats

• Gone, Just Like A Train

• Good Old People

• Goodnight Irene

• Hackensack

• Hard Plains Drifter

• Have A Little Faith In Me

• I Can't Be Satisfied

• I Heard It Through The Grapevine

• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

• Is That You?

• I'ts A Long Story, Pt. 1

• It's Nobody's Fault But Mine

• John Hardy

• Julius Hemphill

• Just Like A Woman

• Lágrimas De Amor

• Landscapes In Alternative History

• Last Nights Of Paris

• Little Brother Bobby

• Lookout For Hope

• Lost, Night

• Lovesick Blues

• Mi Declaración

• Monroe

• Mother

• Music I Heard

• My Little Suede Shoes

• Nowhere Man

• Ode To South Africa

• Old Sugar Bear

• Painted From Memory

• Pipe Down

• Pretty Flowers Were Made For Blooming

• Probability Cloud

• Rag

• Raise Four

• Rambler

• Ray And Etta

• Ron Carter

• Single Girl, Married Girl

• Sittin' On Top Of The World

• Sixty Four

• Soul Merchant

• Sting

• Storm Clouds And The Mist

• Strange Meeting

• Stringbean

• Sub-conscious Lee

• Such Unlikely Lovers

• Sugar Baby

• Tennessee Flat Top Box

• The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers...

• The End Of The World

• The Sweetest Punch

• The Young Monk

• Throughout

• Village

• Waltz For Baltimore

• Weird Nightmare

• What Is This Thing Called Love?

• When We Go

• White Fang

• Wildwood Flower

• Winslow Homer

• Worried Woman

• Yála

• Yuba City

Discography

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• All We Are Saying...

  Fontana / Savoy / Savoy Jazz

  2011

• Sign of Life: Music for 858 Quartet

  Fontana / Savoy Jazz

  2011

• Lágrimas Mexicanas

  Entertainment on Disc / eOne

  2011

• Beautiful Dreamers

  Savoy Jazz

  2010

• History, Mystery

  Nonesuch

  2008

• The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers

  Kindred Rhythm / Golden Beams/Kindred Rhythm

  2006

• 12 Songs

  Cryptogramophone

  2005

• East/West

  Nonesuch

  2005

• Richter 858

  Songlines Recordings

  2005

• Unspeakable

  Nonesuch

  2004

• The Intercontinentals

  Nonesuch

  2003

• The Willies

  Nonesuch

  2002

• With Dave Holland and Elvin Jones

  Nonesuch / Elektra

  2001

• Blues Dream

  Nonesuch / Elektra

  2001

• Ghost Town

  Nonesuch

  2000

• Good Dog, Happy Man

  Nonesuch

  1999

• Songs We Know

  Nonesuch / Elektra

  1998

• Gone, Just Like a Train

  Nonesuch

  1998

• Nashville

  Nonesuch / Elektra/Nonesuch

  1997

• Sound of Summer Running

  Universal Classics & Jazz / Universal Music Classics and Jazz / Verve

  1997

• Bill Frisell Quartet

  Nonesuch

  1996

• Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton

  Elektra

  1995

• This Land

  Nonesuch / Elektra

  1992

• Live

  Gramavision Records

  1991

• More News for Lulu

  HAT HUT Records

  1989

• Smash & Scatteration

  Rykodisc

  1984