Bill Frisell

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    Bill Frisell and writer Ashley Kahn at this year’s North Sea Jazz Fest.

    Blindfold Test: Bill Frisell

    Fortunate and few are the jazz headliners with options like guitar maestro Bill Frisell, who can choose to lead various…

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    ​Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire performs with the trio Trefoil at this year’s Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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    Carla Bley (left), Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard recorded Life Goes On for the ECM label.

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    Vocalist Amirtha Kidambi is planning to stream a Thursday set.

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    Allan Harris is among the performers planning to stream live sets this week.

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    Harmonica player Grégoire Maret collaborated with pianist Romain Collin and guitarist Bill Frisell on Americana.

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    Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science are among the groups planning to stream live sets this week.

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    Guitarist Bill Frisell is now based in New York, following nearly three decades in Seattle.

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    Ted Nash revisits Bernstein and Sondheim for Somewhere Else: Songs From West Side Story.

    2019: The Year’s Top-Rated Albums

    The list below is a round up of the 5-, 4.5- and 4-star reviews that ran in print editions of DownBeat during 2019. If…

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    Egberto Gismonti flew to New York from his home in Brazil for ECM Records at 50, a Nov. 1 and 2 celebration of the imprint at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.

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    Fifty years ago, Manfred Eicher co-founded Edition of Contemporary Music, better known as ECM, and has issued more than 1,600 titles spanning jazz and classical sounds.

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    Rudy Royston leads his own uniquely assembled ensembles, and it’s pretty likely that you’ve heard his drumming on recordings by folks like Dave Douglas and Linda May Han Oh.

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    Chris Stamey has written new material in the style of the Great American Songbook.

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    Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire (left) and saxophonist Joshua Redman join Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity during a performance at the Molde Jazz Festival in Molde, Norway.

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    For almost a decade, violinist Jenny Scheinman (right) and drummer Allison Miller have worked together in the latter’s Boom Tic Boom ensemble. Their new collaborative group is Parlour Game.

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    Mary Halvorson performs at JazzFest Berlin, which ran Nov. 1-4 in Berlin, Germany.

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    Myra Melford, shown here playing the 2015 Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle, will perform at this year’s edition.

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    On Cuong Vu 4Tet’s Change In The Air (RareNoise), its namesake trumpeter ditches electronic effects.

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    Francisco Mela contributes Ancestros to the current season of Newvelle releases.

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    Dr. Lonnie Smith performs at one of three sets on April 5 at the Savannah Music Festival in Savannah, Georgia.

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    ​Saxophonist Joe Lovano (left), bassist Drew Gress, guitarist John Scofield and drummer Adam Nussbaum pay tribute to John Abercrombie at a recent performance in Brooklyn at Roulette.

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    Charles Lloyd performs during the Funchal Jazz Festival in Madeira, Portugal, on July 15.

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    The progressive rock band King Crimson concludes its concert at the Montreal Jazz Festival on July 3.

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    Matt Wilson’s new album Honey And Salt will be released August 25 on Palmetto Records.

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    David Virelles (left) at Ravi Coltrane perform on Jan. 7 at Tishman Auditorium in New York City.

    Ravi, ECM Stars Shine at WJF

    Following a successful event at Winter JazzFest 2016, select artists from Manfred Eicher’s ECM label performed in an…

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    Gary Peacock (left), Lee Konitz, Joey Baron and Bill Frisell


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