Since the release of his landmark 1997 album Nashville, Grammy® award-winning guitarist Bill Frisell’s epic sojourn through America’s musical heartland has produced a series of luminous, often haunting soundscapes. A brilliant, dauntingly prolific and uncategorizable improviser, Frisell introduces his latest investigation into the American soul with Musical Portraits from Heber Springs: Bill Frisell’s Disfarmer Project, featuring a band of longtime collaborators. Inspired by Mike Disfarmer’s arresting photographs that document the lives of his neighbors in rural Arkansas circa 1939-45, Frisell provides a vibrant, sympathetic score for large-scale projections of Disfarmer’s revelatory images, weaving together incisive original compositions and reimagined vintage songs in this unique Bay Area appearance.

"Frisell is a revered figure among musicians—like Miles Davis and few others, his signature is built from pure sound and inflection."
—JazzTimes