The 59 th Monterey Jazz Festival was an island of sanity in a sea of pain. The headliner for opening night in The Arena was Mr. Quincy Jones (“Q’’ to those of you in the know, and to the fans in […]
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In the mid-1980s I became immersed in the world of jazz and cabaret — there were a load of clubs, cafes, and piano bars liberally strewn throughout New York. Within just a ten-minute walk from where I was living in Hell’s Kitchen, there […]
David Torn performing live recently at SubCulture in New York City. Photo © Claire Stefaniat David Torn plays at the The Jazz Estate Few guitarists can make their instrument sound larger more or expansive than David Torn. He’s a self-described “guitarist/texturalist” and […]
The Willies would have been the ideal title for a Bill Frisell album years ago, when his dark and brooding work refused to sit still for stylistic typecastings. Frisell still performs with a diverse array of musicians, but increasingly his […]
Bill Frisell’s Ghost Town is not a desolate place where hopes blow around like tumbleweeds and memories have dried to dust, but a lyrical Utopia where the one-of-a-kind guitarist can indulge his love of glowing heartland melodies in splendid isolation. […]
Bill Frisell is a guitar genius. Any of his multitude of collaborators — from John Zorn and Arto Lindsay to Elvis Costello and Marianne Faithfull — can attest to that. What’s becoming increasingly clear, though, is that he is also […]
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