BILL FRISELL BLOGSPOT ARCHIVE
He has a live archive series on his web site, and he has only a small handful of official live albums. There has been a ton of Bill Frisell material that has been put out and I can't even count how many times he has been on other people's projects. It's an album I will feature in a future blog.
I was more amazed with how many songs were on it and the artwork. His playing is like nothing you ever heard the person handing me the cassette of the album said. I was also told to pay careful attention to the guitar player. My Bill Frisell music started in high school where as a lonely little librarian I got a copy of John Zorn's Naked City and a warning to ingest slowly and carefully because the music should be takin in small doses. I have seen him ten times and each time is different and fun. When his own material is unique his cover songs of other artists are even more unique and he makes it sound like he wrote the piece himself. When he talks between songs it's like he is taking effective speaking class and is afraid of his audience even though they know him all too well. He is quirky in his compositions and even more quirky on stage. When he performers live he could put a band together of awesome musicians who never recorded together and make them feel they have worked for twenty years. He can do so much with any kind of group or ensemble and make it sound perfect and most of all his own.
I could see him one week playing solo guitar and it would sound like a beautiful ambient landscape and the next night have a six piece band that sounds like controlled chaos. He has done so much for music and created hybrids of genres and styles then anyone I know. Did I ever tell you how awesome Bill Frisell is? I thought I did but was not quite sure.
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