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Article: Interview

A Fireside Chat with Bill Frisell

by AAJ Staff
February 21, 2004

Having spent most of my youth in the Reagan Eighties, I matured with the impression that bassists were all like Mick Mars and guitarists all mirrored The Edge. This was acceptable behavior in my youth, but would be considered juvenile now. And although I appreciate staying “young at heart," I am grateful to have been cultured ...

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The Intercontinentals

By Bill Frisell

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Boubacar; Good Old People; For Christos; Baba Drame; Listen; Anywhere Road; Procissao; The Young Monk; We Are Everywhere; Yala; Perritos; Magic; Eli; Remember

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Bill Frisell: The Intercontinentals

Read "The Intercontinentals" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
July 25, 2003

It's time to admit a bias. Anyone who covers Boubacar Traoré automatically scores points in my book. The Malian guitarist is infinitely remote to anyone outside Mali, but that isn't for any good reason except the vagaries of the recording industry. It's fitting that guitarist Bill Frisell would choose “Boubacar" as the opener to The Intercontinentals ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Frisell: The Intercontinentals

Read "The Intercontinentals" reviewed by Farrell Lowe

by Farrell Lowe
May 17, 2003

With the release of The Intercontinentals, Bill Frisell invites us into a lush and verdant musical world. On this outing he has chosen to work with five superb musicians from various parts of the planet. The eclectic range of instruments employed herein include electric and acoustic guitars, subtle electronics, calabash, djembe, vocals, oud, bouzouki, pedal steel ...

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The Willies

By Bill Frisell

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Sittin' on Top of the World; Cluck Old Hen; Everybody Loves Everybody; I Want to Go Home; Single Girl, Married Girl; Get Along; John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man; Sugar Baby; Blackberry Blossom; If I Could I Surely Would; Cluck Old Hen (Reprise); Cold, Cold Heart; I Know You Care; Goodnight Irene; Big Shoe; The Willies

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Rarum: Selected Recordings of Bill Frisell

By Bill Frisell

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Mandeville (81); Introduction (84); India (84); Singsong (83); In Line (82); Resistor (84); Music I Heard (84); Tone (84); Lonesome (87); Alien Prints (for D. Sharpe) (87); Hangdog (87); Kind of Gentle (96); Closer (86); Sub Rosa (Dedicated to Bill Frisell) (93).

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Come Away With Me

By Norah Jones

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Don't Know Why; Seven Years; Cold Cold Heart; Feelin' The Same Way; Come Away With Me; Shoot the Moon; Turn Me On; Lonestar; I've Got To See You Again; Painter Song; One Flight Down; Nightingale; The Long Day Is Over; The Nearness Of You.

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Bill Frisell: The Willies

Read "The Willies" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
July 22, 2002

Recently, Bill Frisell seems to be averaging at least two new albums per year. Fortunately, there is no sign of this increased quantity equating to decreased quality. This album is full of all the familiar Frisell trademarks--compelling playing, quirkily familiar melodies, eclecticism, loops, swing, tradition, innovation, and, yes, fun. On this outing, Frisell opts ...

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Bill Frisell: Rarum: Selected Recordings of Bill Frisell

Read "Rarum: Selected Recordings of Bill Frisell" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2002

Whatever the musical context, guitarist Bill Frisell has always been a team player. From the edgy avant-garde of Naked City to the deeply melodic music of the Ginger Baker Trio and several wide-ranging groups of his own, he's proven repeatedly that he has the versatility and perceptiveness to fit into wildly different surroundings. His ECM work ...

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Article: Interview

Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant

by Phil DiPietro
June 1, 2002

At 36, Rez Abbasi is the latest accomplished and proven musician with a few solo releases and a few sideman appearances in his discography to choose the independent jazz route. Born in Pakistan, raised in the USA since the age of three, and having gone east from west internationally as well as domestically, Abbasi is known ...