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Following a long stint as a sideman in NYC with leading jazz musicians and being mentored by Ben Monder and Arturo O’Farrill, the currently residing Zurich, Switzerland guitarist and composer
Miles Davis once said that he never changed how he played; he just changed his surrounding accompanists. The same can be applied to guitarist Bill Frisell, as this 2-LP work
