Bill Frisell’s career as a guitarist and composer has spanned more than 40 years and many celebrated recordings. Frisell’s catalog has been cited by Downbeat as "the best recorded output of the decade."

In recent years, Frisell has forged a distinctive and fruitful collaborative partnership with the Blue Note label, releasing HARMONY, Valentine, and FOUR to great acclaim.

Recognized as one of America’s 21 most vital and productive performing artists, Frisell was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist in 2012. He is also a recipient of grants from United States Artists, Meet the Composer among others. In 2016, he was a beneficiary of the first FreshGrass Composition commission to preserve and support innovative grassroots music. Frisell served as a Resident Artistic Director at San Francisco Jazz, upon its opening in 2013. Bill is the subject of a documentary film by director Emma Franz, entitled Bill Frisell: A Portrait, which examines his creative process in depth, and is the subject of an extensive biography by Philip Watson, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed The Sound of American Music.

"Frisell has had a lot of practice putting high concept into a humble package. Long hailed as one of the most distinctive and original improvising guitarists of our time, he has also earned a reputation for teasing out thematic connections with his music ... There’s a reason that Jazz at Lincoln Center had him program a series called Roots of Americana."—New York Times