Bill Frisell

Bill Frisell is an American guitarist and composer, born in Baltimore in 1951 and raised mostly in the Denver area. He studied at Berklee College of Music, took lessons from Jim Hall and first became known through ECM in the early 1980s. His work runs from Paul Motian's groups and his years with John Zorn to a large body of records under his own name on ECM, Nonesuch and Blue Note. Frisell played on Motian's Psalm and stayed in his groups, including the trio with Joe Lovano, until Motian's death. His first album as leader, In Line, came out on ECM in 1983. He also played in Zorn's Naked City.