Good article on sometime jazz guitarist Bill Frisell on NJ.com:

Musically, Frisell is the man of a thousand voices. But for some reason, most people still label him a jazz musician. His sole Grammy, for 2005′s “Unspeakable,” came in the contemporary jazz category.

But that’s fine by him. After all, the jazz label puts him in good company. “I’m not comparing my self with them, but Charlie Parker used popular songs and Sonny Rollins played cowboy songs or whatever else floated through his mind. That’s what I feel like I’m doing — using jazz to take whatev er’s around me and transform it into my own voice,” he says.

“To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible.”