Sound-treasure hunter, precise minimalist, explorer of details, calm force. Guitarist Bill Frisell is synonymous with style-formation.
He was born in Baltimore and studied clarinet playing at Richard Joiner’s when he was a child, later he fell in love with the sound of the guitar and learned to play it so well that he went to the famed Berklee College of Music. In the early 1980s, his residency in the band of drummer Paul Motian was a breakthrough. Thanks to Motian, Frisell started to work as a studio musician for ECM Records company and released his first studio album, In Line, in 1983. The list of his achievements and accounts of the extraordinary musical journey Bill Frisell has since gone on are numerous, so it comes as no suprise that Frisell is writing memoirs, in his 70s, to be published next spring. We can expect widespread reception of this book by his fans, thanks to his love not only of jazz, but also rock, folk, country, bluegrass and world music.
Bill Frisell is returning to Brno three years after an interrupted outdoor concert in 2018, which was stopped by the police due to vandalism.
Alongside Pat Metheny and John Scofield, Frisell is one of the most influential guitarists of his generation. His view of jazz is completely unique.
