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Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

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The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell, featuring exclusive listening sessions with Paul Simon, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Gus Van Sant, Rhiannon Giddens, The Bad Plus, Gavin Bryars, Van Dyke Parks, Sam Amidon, Hal Willner, Jim Woodring, Martin Hayes, and Dennis Cahill. John Zorn calls it a beautiful and long overdue portrait of one of America's true living cultural treasures. MOJO outlines the subject's life in a series of scrupulous strokes and intimate interviews that are rare in such undertakings.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 560 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber


The definitive biography of guitar icon and Grammy Award-winning artist Bill Frisell.

Featuring exclusive listening sessions with: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin Bryars; Van Dyke Parks; Sam Amidon; Hal Willner; Jim Woodring; Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill

A beautiful and long overdue portrait of one of America's true living cultural treasures.

John Zorn

The perfect companion-piece to the music of its subject.

MOJO

Outlines the subject's life in a series of scrupulous strokes and intimate interviews that are rare in such undertakings. . . . a cool, casual victory.

IRISH TIMES

Over a period of forty-five years, Bill Frisell has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential musicians at work today.

A quietly revolutionary guitar hero for our genre-blurring times, he connects to a diverse range of artists and admirers, including Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Gus Van Sant and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, all of whom feature in this book.

A vital addition to any music lover's book collection, Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer tells the legendary guitarist's story for the first time.

Stuffed with musical encounters, so many that every couple of pages there's an unheard Frisell recording for the reader to chase down.

NEW YORKER

Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer is the definitive biography.

BILL MILKOWSKI, DOWNBEAT

Superb. . . the book races along like Sonny Rollins in full sail.

Like subject, like writer: this is super-articulate, adventurous prose.

PERSPECTIVE

[Watson's] writing balances unbridled passion and dispassionate research nearly as deftly as Mr. Frisell's playing does sound and silence. . . . compelling.

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Weight: 486g
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571361694
Edition number: Main

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