featuring
Bill Frisell’s When You Wish Upon a Star
Petra Haden, violin/vocals
Eyvind Kang. viola
Thomas Morgan, bass
Rudy Roysten, drums

Spin referred to Bill Frisell as the Clark Kent of the electric guitar: “Soft-spoken and self-effacing in conversation, he apparently breathes in lungsful of raw fire when he straps on his guitar…In one of the biggest leaps of imagination since the Yardbirds and Jimi Hendrix, Frisell coaxes and slams his hovering split-toned ax into shapes of things to come.” The New Yorker notes, “Bill Frisell plays the guitar like Miles Davis played the trumpet: in the hands of such radical thinkers, their instruments simply become different animals.” Frisell returns to UMS for the first time in over a decade with two different concerts This performance showcases a new band featuring Petra Hayden (violin/vocals), Eyvind Kang (viola), Thomas Morgan (bass), and Rudy Roysten (drums).