 | History, Mystery [Read More ...]
Description: Two CD set. Bill Frisell's History, Mystery is a series of short pieces, alternately elegant and playful, written by Frisell for an octet comprised of the guitarist himself and a group of longtime collaborators-friends. One evocative snippet melds into another to form a virtually... |
 | Floratone [Read More ...]
Description: Blue Note Records presents FLORATONE, a unique studio collaboration between drummer Matt Chamberlain (Fiona Apple, Tori Amos), guitarist Bill Frisell, and producers Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Laura Veirs) & Lee Townsend. An experiment in musical democracy, the album f... |
 | Blues Dream [Read More ...]
Description: For those who have been wondering where Mr. Bill's musical wanderings would lead him in the wake of his first solo CD, Ghost Town, Blues Dream provides the ambitious answer. Nearly all Frisell's fascinations are here: the pastoralism of Have a Little Faith, a Nashville tinge, and... |
 | East/West [Read More ...]
Description: Guitarist and 2005 Grammy Award winner Bill Frisell's East/West is a double-disc set featuring two trio performances: Frisell on guitar and Kenny Wolleson on drums and percussion, with Tony Scherr on bass for the East disc, which was recorded at New York's Village Vanguard, and V... |
 | ECM Touchstones: Lookout For Hope [Read More ...]
TOUCHSTONES: From ECM's 40 Year History. Specially-priced & newly-packaged! The first and most stimulating of Bill Frisell s bands. Introduced a new group sound - from the influence of Jim Hall to rock to Nashville. |
 | Time and Time Again [Read More ...]
Description: One of the great bands of modern jazz, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano have been recording together since 1981. Ever since, and despite skyrocketing careers, the three musicians have always set aside time to continue their trio collaboration.Paul Motian's last two albums... |
 | Good Dog, Happy Man [Read More ...]
Description: The live-simple equation reached in the title of Good Dog, Happy Man might lull the listener into believing that Bill Frisell's continuing vamp on his Nashville band is reaching for the quaintest sounds possible. But in truth, this mellow-opening recording is as reaching and full... |
 | Have a Little Faith [Read More ...]
Description: Have a Little Faith guitarist Bill Frisell italicized his stature as a composer and arranger within a combo setting that achieves a perfect balance of form and free-wheeling interpretive intensity. Frisell's core working section of the time (drummer Joey Barron and bassist Kermi... |
 | Gone, Just Like a Train [Read More ...]
Description: Bill Frisell is a soulful jazz minimalist with a sophisticated sense of harmony, a daring rhythmic approach, and an instantly recognizable, personal sound--part jazz, part rockabilly, part blues, part psychedelia--a remarkable melodist who can transmute single notes into sapphire... |
 | ECM Touchstones: Rambler [Read More ...]
Bill Frisell as he was before:It is important to recognize an artist; so it is for this work of Frisell. It is undoubtly one of his best works, not corrupted from routine, as sometimes is happening in the last years |
 | Unspeakable [Read More ...]
Description: On Unspeakable, guitarist Bill Frisell and producer Hal Willner (Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed) take a freewheelings, idiosyncratic approach to the modern art of music sampling, in a groove-and-soul based project. Frisell and Willner employ often obscure songs and sounds culled from ... |
 | Nashville [Read More ...]
Description: Bill Frisell is a gentle giant of modern guitar, pure in his jazz-influenced mission to uncover and reinvent American music across a disparate styles. At once unmistakable for the fluid, elastic sound of his instrument and restless in his pilgrimage across often widely varied sou... |
 | I Have the Room Above Her [Read More ...]
Description: Paul Motian is a sterling example of a musician reaching new heights in their later years. Nearing 75, the drummer and composer continues to explore the innerworkings of the small combo. Frisell and Lovano have worked with him since the beginnings of their careers, decades ago. T... |
 | Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian [Read More ...]
Description: For two days in February 2005, guitarist Bill Frisell joined upright bassist legend Ron Carter, a member of Miles Davis' groundbreaking 60s bands, and drummer Paul Motian, part of the equally-storied Bill Evans Trio, at Avatar Studios in Manhattan to record original compositions ... |
 | Bill Frisell Quartet [Read More ...]
Description: With his indelible, elastic tone, restless curiosity, and open-eared approach to music beyond the traditional corridors of jazz, guitarist Bill Frisell is among the most prolific and continually surprising improvisers alive. Quartet is built around a typically inventive, typicall... |
 | The Intercontinentals [Read More ...]
Blending Frisell's own brand of American twang and his inimitable improvisational style with Brazilian, Greek, and Milian guitarist Boubacar Traore and Brazilian singer Gilberto Gil. 14 tracks packaged in a slipcase. Nonesuch. 2003. |
 | Before We Were Born [Read More ...]
Description: Guitarist Bill Frisell keeps shifting his supporting players on these 1988 recordings. The only track with just his working band of the period--Hank Roberts on cello, Kermit Driscoll on bass, and Joey Baron on drums--is the extended "Hard Plains Drifter," arranged by John Zorn. I... |
 | Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones [Read More ...]
Description: Backed by two of jazz's greatest improvisers--bassist Dave Holland and drummer Elvin Jones--guitarist Bill Frisell forges one of his strongest efforts to date. There's a holistic feel to this group that wasn't as apparent in Frisell's handful of trio recordings with bassist Kermi... |
 | In Line [Read More ...]
Description: For his first recording under his own name, Bill Frisell, then ECM Records house guitarist, presented nine of his compositions in the most personal way, going it alone on four pieces with just overdubs of his guitars and playing the other five in duet with bassist Arild Andersen.... |
 | Live [Read More ...]
Description: LIVE finds acclaimed guitarist Bill Frisell onstage in Spain in 1991 with longtime collaborators Kermit Driscoll (bass) and Joey Baron (drums). Their familiarity shows in the sheer spontaneity of the performances and in their intuitive grasp of every shifting musical gesture. T... |
