Jazz, americana and strings collide in the music of Bill Frisell, who is counted among the top 3 jazz guitarists. ‘Intense ensemble playing around beautiful themes’ (de Volkskrant).

Bill Frisell is counted among the top 3 jazz guitarists, alongside Pat Metheny and John Scofield and he convincingly won the most recent Downbeat Critics Poll. Jazz and americana collide in his innovative electric guitar playing. Sonorous film music and the interaction between strings and plucked instruments in bluegrass are important influences. In Music for Strings the American guitarist will perform with three renowned string players from the jazz and improvised music world.

In over 25 years Brill Frisell has played on more than 200 albums, some 30 of which  have appeared under his own name. He has collaborated with such leading musicians as John Zorn, Elvis Costello and Lucinda Williams.‘Bill Frisell is perhaps the most valued jazz guitar player of the past decades, thanks to the ever present smile in his melancholy music. He is not in tune with endless solo jazz, but prefers intense ensemble playing around beautiful themes’ (de Volkskrant).

Click here for a review of the concert in the Ronnie Scott’s last Monday, on LondonJazzNews.com.

The Bimhuis restaurant is open prior to the concert from 6.30 till 8.30PM (reservations via 020-7882158). After the concert, the Bimhuis Café is open (free entrance).

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Bill Frisell gitaar, Jenny Scheinman viool, Eyvind Kang altviool, Hank Robert cello