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Article: Frisell, Bill
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- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
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BILL FRISELL
Born:
Baltimore, Maryland, 18 March 1951
Genre:
Jazz
Best-selling album since 1990:
Nashville
(1996)
Electric guitarist Bill Frisell has created a broad and personal oeuvre melding aspects of jazz, folk, rock, country, free improvisation, and classical composition, employing sophisticated guitar technique and his reflective personality. Influenced during his teens by 1960s Motown, psychedelia, jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, and Chicago blues, Frisell has gradually incorporated his experiences of the eclectic New York avant-garde ("downtown") scene with more mainstream modern jazz styles into a music that evokes cultural clashes and mythic U.S. landscapes like the ...