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It's true: Bill Frisell wears glasses, dresses casually and is modest and soft-spoken in person. But instead of stepping into a phone booth to put on a cape, he straps on his trusty Fender Telecaster and strides onstage at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater with his trio.
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Once upon a time, an NPR Music series called JazzSet With Branford Marsalis visited clubs, concerts and festivals across the country and around the world. Today, our founding host runs his own record label, and JazzSet visits the Marsalis Music Stage at Newport, where Chilean-born Claudia Acuna sets political folk songs to the sounds of jazz.
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Saxophonist and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenon highlights his new CD, Esta Plena, and leads into the Vijay Iyer Trio, which performs selections from Historicity. Both hold up beautifully to repeated listening; hear selections from the two at Newport in Surround Sound for JazzSet.
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It all began on Monday nights at the Visiones club in Greenwich Village, where a newcomer from Minnesota was leading a handsome band. Here, the Maria Schneider Orchestra spans 15 years of original, paradigm-shifting music at the 2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center.
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Ambrose Akinmusire says, "A lot of people think I'm an over-achiever, but I don't believe there's such a thing." With a warm yet assertive tone, the trumpeter leads a quintet at the KC Jazz Club in a concert recorded by JazzSet.
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