Results for "Bill Frisell"

History, Mystery

By Bill Frisell

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Imagination; Probability Cloud; Probability Cloud Part 2; Out Of Body; Struggle; A Momentary Suspension Of Doubt; Onward; Baba Drame; What We Need; A Change Is Gonna Come; Jacky-ing; Show Me; Boo And Shout; Struggle Part 2; Heal; Another Momentary Suspension Of Doubt; Probability Cloud (Reprise). CD2: Monroe; Lazy Robinson; Question #1; Answer #1; Faces; Sub-Conscious Lee; Monroe Part 2; Question #2; Lazy Robinson Part 2; What We Need Part 2; Waltz For Baltimore; Answer #2; Monroe Part 3.

All Hat

By Bill Frisell

Label: EmArcy
Released: 2008
Track listing: John Hardy; Opening Theme; Meet the Stantons; Chrissie's Fall; Peckerwood; Hardy Race; Empty Barn; Stable Scene; Sting; Etta Interlude; Theme version 2; Chrissie's Theme; Theme version 3; Empty Barn part 2; Stanton Theme; Interlude 2; John Hardy/Ray Returns to Etta; Ray Driving; Empty Barn part 3; Theme version 4; Ray and Etta; Jackson's Epiphany; Hardy Bar Song; Theme 5/Waltz; Interlude 3; Hardy Duet; Chrissie in the Meadow; Sonny's Losing Montage; Last Race; Etta's Theme; End Credits.

Solos

By Bill Frisell

Label: Songline/Tonefield
Released: 2008

London Jazz Festival 2008

by Frederick Bernas
December 2, 2008

London Jazz Festival 2008 London, England Nov. 14-23, 2008 Ken Vandermark, Barry Guy, Mark SandersThe VortexNovember 14 In a meticulously unplanned concert, the music often seemed like a sonic battle between these three renowned improvisers. Sporting a black fitted tee and a hairstyle that could be straight from the ...

La La Means I Love You

Featuring the music of Bill Frisell
Duration: 9:58
October 4, 2008

Bill Frisell: History, Mystery

by Matthew Miller
September 14, 2008

For an artist rooted in sound and atmosphere, change occurs, more often than not, through Re-contextualization. Miles Davis embodied this over a career of brilliant juxtapositions and, in this way, Bill Frisell is his closest contemporary. The 58 year-old guitarist chooses collaborators carefully, employing them as foils to revolve around the swirling gravitation of his haunting, ...

Bill Frisell: History, Mystery

by John Kelman
June 13, 2008

While guitarist Bill Frisell has continued to shape his uniquely skewed confluence of musical styles, it's been too long since he weighed in heavily on the compositional side. In recent years, the writing has most often served the playing, largely providing a context around which the guitarist and various-sized groups can explore, expand and mine. That's ...

Bill Frisell: All Hat

by Ian Patterson
June 2, 2008

The problem with attempting to define Americana is that it is an all-encompassing term culturally speaking. As far as music goes, Americana runs the gamut from the Grateful Dead to Willie Nelson and just about everything in between. Equally, the music of guitarist Bill Frisell is difficult to describe without embarking on a short essay, and ...

Bill Frisell: History, Mystery

by Chris May
May 6, 2008

Over the 25 years he's been recording as a leader, guitarist Bill Frisell has worked in a multitude of settings, from gritty downtown to pastoral Americana, and with as many kinds of line-ups, from string trios through small groups to little-big bands. He's convinced in most contexts, and dug deep in many, always retaining his own ...

Bill Frisell: Pursuing Beauty

by Nenad Georgievski
November 1, 2007

There are people in this world who are blessed with the gift of constant searching for the beautiful in a world that has gone terribly wrong somewhere. Bill Frisell is someone that is evidently on a quest such as that one. Clearly one of the most original and most proficient guitarists now playing, he is acknowledged ...