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Bill Frisell: Good Dog, Happy Man
by Douglas Payne
Every note Bill Frisell plays--or suggests--offers an impressionistic soundtrack of the American vernacular. It is jazz only in the way improvisation is a reflection of sensibilities. But Frisell's music is really not just jazz. It swings over a wide swath of American musical forms: jazz, rock, grunge, blues, country, folk, bluegrass, even commercial orchestration. Call it a sort of “sound Americana": peculiar, individual and unusually compelling. Good Dog Happy Man ideally documents another set of Frisell's colorful, commanding ...
Continue ReadingDavid Sanborn: Inside
by Ian Nicolson
Since the days when he left his hometown St Louis to play for the Butterfield Blues Band during the sixties Blues boom in California, Sanborn has worked hard at staying top dog among the LA studio sessioneers - and succeeded.He has also commuted effortlessly between sophisticated Jazzpop solo albums stressing his distinctive alto tone and R'n'B roots, and the occasional full-ahead Jazz outing - like 1990's Another Hand, or Upfront a year or two later. This time he's ...
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