Bill Frisell ~ Julia

Good Md-late-afternoon my RP Brothers and Sisters!

Sometimes I find I music in dynamic ways... My middle son, Dr. Kevin Harkins, has been attending the Newport Music Festival in Newport, RI and He posted an instrumental song by this person/guitarist whom I did not know on his FB page... I played it and it was very good... So I am going to share one today and one or two in the coming days... the Guitarist is Bill Frisell...

My son wrote the following as a response to my comments: "I was first introduced to Bill Frisell at the Solid Sound Festival in 2015. He sat in with the Charles Lloyd Quartet for a remarkable jazz set, then played in a duo format with Sam Amidon. A very versatile guitarist!" and further, "Frisell is an interpretive genius."

This song is called "Julia" song took place on August 31, 2012 at Cite de la Musique, Paris
Bill Frisell - guitar
Greg Leisz - pedal-steel guitar
Tonny Scherr - bass
Kenny Wollesen - drums

Background:
"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. He went on to work in a variety of contexts, notably as a member of the New York City Downtown Scene where he formed a long partnership with John Zorn. He was also a longtime member of Paul Motian's groups from the early 1980s until Motian's death in 2011. Since 2000, Frisell's eclectic output as a bandleader has emphasized folk, country music, and Americana.

Frisell was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but spent most of his youth in the Denver, Colorado, area. He studied clarinet with Richard Joiner of the Denver Symphony Orchestra as a youth, graduated from Denver East High School, and went to the University of Northern Colorado to study music.

His original guitar teacher in the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area was Dale Bruning, with whom Frisell released the 2000 duo album Reunion. After graduating from Northern Colorado, where he studied with Johnny Smith, Frisell went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied with Jon Damian and Jim Hall.

In 1988 Frisell left New York City and moved to Seattle, Washington. In the early 1990s Frisell made two of his best-reviewed albums: first, Have a Little Faith, an ambitious survey of Americana of all stripes, from Charles Ives and Aaron Copland (the entirety of Billy the Kid) to John Hiatt (the title song), Bob Dylan ("Just Like a Woman") and Madonna (a lengthy, psychedelic rock-tinged version of "Live to Tell"); and second, This Land, a complementary set of originals. During this time he performed with many musicians, including up and coming performers such as Douglas September on the album 10 Bulls. He also branched out by performing soundtracks to silent films of Buster Keaton with his trio, and contributed to Ryuichi Sakamoto's album Heartbeat.

In the mid-1990s, Frisell disbanded his trio. He continued the trend marked by Have a Little Faith by more explicitly incorporating elements of bluegrass and country music into his music. His friendship with Gary Larson led him to provide music for the TV version of The Far Side (released on the album Quartet along with music written for Keaton's Convict 13). Since 2000, Frisell has lived on Bainbridge Island, Washington, near Seattle." Wikipedia