BILL MACKAY

Jazz Related Improv/Composition / Post-Fusion Contemporary • United States
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Bill MacKay is a highly-regarded guitarist-composer-improviser based in Chicago. His radiant songwriting, and creative and unpredictable approach to the guitar have inspired listeners and musicians across & beyond experimental folk, rock, and avant-garde scenes. He is also a writer, emerging polyglot, activist and visual artist, and has been recording & releasing records, and contributing to those of other musicians, since 2004.

His most recent records Esker (Drag City, 2017), SpiderBeetleBee (Drag City, 2017) his second duo set with Ryley Walker, Altamira (Ears & Eyes, 2015) by his band Darts & Arrows , Bill MacKay plays the songs of John Hulbert (Tompkins Square, 2015) and Rob Frye’s Flux Bikes-Sueñolas (Lake Paradise, 2016) reveal a startling range – from the folk of Appalachia, avant-rock, and blues to gospel, jazz, raga-esque excursions, and western-country modes. Yet out of this diversity, it’s the dynamic way which he ties his interests together that is key to read more...
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Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn
Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn "Hermine" (Official Music Video)
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Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker
Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker "Lonesome Traveler" (Official Music Video)
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BILL MACKAY Bill MacKay & Sounds of Now album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Bill MacKay & Sounds of Now
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2005
BILL MACKAY Bill MacKay and Darts & Arrows album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Bill MacKay and Darts & Arrows
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2010
BILL MACKAY Chatham Park album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Chatham Park
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2014
BILL MACKAY Bill MacKay & Matt Lux : December Concert album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Bill MacKay & Matt Lux : December Concert
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2014
BILL MACKAY Sunrise : Bill MacKay Plays The Songs of John Hulburt album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Sunrise : Bill MacKay Plays The Songs of John Hulburt
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2015
BILL MACKAY Esker album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Esker
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2017
BILL MACKAY Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker : SpiderBeetleBee album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker : SpiderBeetleBee
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2017
BILL MACKAY Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn : Stir album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn : Stir
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2019

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BILL MACKAY Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker : Land of Plenty album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker : Land of Plenty
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2015

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