Special Concerts

Monday, March 2, 2026

Don’t miss this late-breaking addition to the Athenaeum Jazz series schedule, a unique opportunity to celebrate landmark jazz guitarist Bill Frisell’s 75th birthday this March! He comes to the Athenaeum’s Joan and Irwin Jacobs Music Room with the new configuration of the Bill Frisell Trio, featuring Luke Bergman on bass and Tim Angulo on drums. Frisell’s career as a guitarist and composer has spanned more than 40 years and many celebrated recordings. Recognized as one of America’s most vital and productive performing artists, Frisell has contributed to the work of a staggering array of collaborators including Paul Motian, John Zorn, Elvis Costello, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vinicius Cantuária, Marianne Faithful, John Scofield, Bono, and Brian Eno, to name only a few. This work has established Frisell as one of the most sought-after guitar voices in contemporary music.

Stereophile wrote, “Bill Frisell has quietly been the most brilliant and unique voice to come along in jazz guitar since Wes Montgomery.” The New Yorker noted, "Bill Frisell plays the guitar like Miles Davis played the trumpet: in the hands of such radical thinkers, their instruments simply become different animals." His 2020 Blue Note Records release, Valentine, has been hailed as ‘a masterpiece’ by Downbeat. “They consistently and strikingly play as one, voices intertwined, completing phrases as if sharing a single thought… the performances represent jazz playing at its most sublime.”

JOAN & IRWIN JACOBS
MUSIC ROOM
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
1008 Wall Street
La Jolla, CA 92037

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CONCERT BEGINS AT 7:30 PM.
DOORS OPEN AT 7:00 PM.

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS:
$53 member / $58 nonmember

Online ticket sales are subject to ticketing fees.