Bill Frisell live in concert.
ON TOUR

Bill Frisell

41
critic concert reviews
jazz

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

79
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Critic Consensus

Based on 41 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Bill Frisell is rated as an enjoyable live performer, with some notable strengths. Bill Frisell concert reviews describe live shows and performances as playful, emotional, poetic, dramatic, and intense.

ON TOUR

de Bijloke, Gent, Belgium (July 5)

Latest release

1951 (December 1, 2022)

artist info

GENRE
jazz
ORIGIN
Baltimore, United States (3/18/1951)
BIO
William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American guitarist, composer and arranger. One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell came to prominence as a stalwart for ECM Records.
HAS PERFORMED with
Ron Carter, Bill Frisell Trio

CRITIC concert REVIEWS

Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)

July 22, 2022
60
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Bill Frisell Live In Concert In Sweden

Parklife DC (USA)

April 28, 2021
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Sometimes it's simply the spontaneity of live music that makes it such a special experience, not only for the fans — some of whom might loosely feel the weight of what they're witnessing — but just as much for the musicians themselves.

Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

June 3, 2019
100
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Bill Frisell Trio Heavenly trio breathes as one

God Is In The TV Zine (UK)

November 5, 2017
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To spend time like this in the musical company of Bill Frisell is seriously good fun. For a man who has been directly involved in the intensely creative business of composing, arranging and making music for nigh on 35 years now – often in collaboration with a hugely diverse range of artists, stretching all th

Financial Times (UK)

July 18, 2017
80
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London Jazz Cafe, London, UK

Scenestr (Australia)

June 13, 2017
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Jazz guitar genius Bill Frisell brought his band to Brisbane’s QPAC (9 June) for a night celebrating the songs of his favourite films.

Stuff (New Zealand)

June 8, 2017
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Bill Frisell Wellington Jazz Festival Opera House, Wellington, June 7.

Past critic reviews published in

The Age (Australia), No Depression (USA), Mondo Sonoro (Spain), Relix (USA), The Guardian (UK) and more

IMAGE CREDIT

Michael Hoefner [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons