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  • A Tribute to Joni Mitchell

    Joni Mitchell + Various Artists

    A Tribute to Joni Mitchell

    Caetano Veloso, Brad Mehldau, k.d. lang, Emmylou Harris, Sufjan Stevens, Björk, Prince, James Taylor, and others reinterpret Joni. This lineup, says the New York Times, “does just about everything right … [They] take on Ms. Mitchell’s idiosyncratic songs with a balance of humility and chutzpah.” The Seattle Times raves: "Brilliance on brilliance."

  • 8 Days in June Festival [logo]

    Adams, Reich, Glass, Frisell Music to Be Featured at 8 Days in June Festival

    Friday, June 13, 2008

    Works by John Adams, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Frederic Rzewski, Bill Frisell, John Zorn, John Cage meet the music of Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's second annual 8 Days in June music festival, which kicks off tonight. It's a multidisciplinary affair aiming to examine the relationship between music and the explosive changes of the 20th and 21st centuries and harness the "The Power of Change."

  • Brad Mehldau Trio: Live [cover]

    All About Jazz: Mehldau Trio's "Live" 2-CD Set Is "Exceptional"

    Wednesday, March 19, 2008

    This Tuesday, the Brad Mehldau Trio will release the two-CD Live album. "It's the trio's increasing open-mindedness that distinguishes Live from its previous live outings," says All About Jazz. "Refined simplicity contrasts with sophisticated complexity while spare economy coexists alongside busier dynamics, making Live another exceptional milestone in a career defined by gradual but unrelenting growth and exploration."

  • All About Jazz: Metheny's New Trio Album Is "Impeccable"

    Sunday, February 3, 2008

    Day Trip, Pat Metheny's new record with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez, Metheny's first trio album in years, was worth the wait for All About Jazz critic Doug Collete. This "impeccable new disc," he writes, "will no doubt foster revelations in Pat Metheny Group aficionados who can rediscover his core virtues."

  • Bill Frisell Plays Yoshi's Jazz Club in San Francisco

    Thursday, January 17, 2008

    Bill Frisell and his trio, featuring drummer Joey Baron and bassist Tony Scherr, have set up shop at Yoshi's jazz club in San Francisco through the weekend. For the occasion, Beyond Chron , the city's alternative online daily, features an in-depth look at Bill's life and career, with details on the many albums in his prolific discography. "The breadth of his performing and recording situations is a testament not only to his singular guitar conception," writes E. "Doc" Smith, "but his musical versatility as well."

    To read Smith's article, visit beyondchron.org.

  • Bill Frisell, Glenn Kotche Perform at MusicNOW Festival This Week

    Tuesday, April 1, 2008

    Bill Frisell and Glenn Kotche will be on hand in Cincinnati, Ohio, this week as the third annual MusicNOW festival, organized by native son Bryce Dessner of The National, gets under way at Memorial Hall tonight. Kotche performed in the inaugural MusicNOW in 2006 and returns this Friday to perform with Dessner and Bang on a Can on a double bill with Dirty Projectors. Frisell makes his MusicNOW debut tomorrow night.

  • Bill Frisell, Glenn Kotche to Perform at 2008 MusicNOW Festival

    Sunday, January 20, 2008

    The line-up for Cincinnati's 2008 MusicNOW festival has been announced. The four-day multimedia event, running April 2-5, will include a concert on April 3 celebrating American guitar with Bill Frisell's 828 Quartet (Eyvind Kang, Hank Roberts, and Jenny Scheinman) as well as an April 4 program for which Glenn Kotche joins Dirty Projectors, Bang on a Can, and festival curator Bryce Dessner of The National.

    For more information on the festival and tickets to these events, visit musicnowfestival.org.

  • Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian

    Bill Frisell

    Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian

    Frisell convened in a Manhattan studio with two jazz greats, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Paul Motian. The New Yorker says, “The all-star threesome performs like a seasoned band, and Frisell remains the only six-string poet of his generation.”

  • Boston Herald: Trio Brings Out Best in Metheny

    Monday, March 17, 2008

    The Pat Metheny Trio arrives in Pat's home base of New York City for a performance at Town Hall tonight at 8 PM. On Sunday night, they were up in Massachusetts playing the Somerville Theatre; as the Boston Herald reports, "the trio format brings out the best in guitar virtuoso Pat Metheny" with the current lineup "arguably his best yet."

  • Boston Phoenix: Metheny's "Day Trip" Showcases Band's Strengths

    Monday, March 10, 2008

    The Pat Metheny Trio, with Christian McBride on bass and Antonio Sanchez on drums, will be playing at the Peabody Auditorium in Daytona Beach tonight in the last of three Florida shows before heading up the East Coast later this week. They'll be at the Somerville Theatre in Massachusetts this Sunday, March 16, which the Boston Phoenix previews in a feature article.

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