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Bill Frisell (featuring Elvin Jones): Moon River (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 03, 08

The hectic schedules of these three master players prevented them from having much time to track this record live in ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL ELVIN JONES

     Elvin Jones, artwork by Michael Symonds While Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, Roy Haynes...

Jim Hall: Frisell Frazzle (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 03, 08

On Dialogues, Jim Hall decided to record with some more contemporary artists as a means to stretch and stimulate his ...

Bill Frisell: Lonesome (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

Between the release of his debut recording, In Line, and the date of this session (early ’87), Bill Frisell busily re...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BILL FRISELL

As unassumingly as Bill Frisell presents himself in his everyday life is as fiery and unabashedly bold he is wi...

Bill Frisell: Hard Plains Drifter (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

John Zorn has called on Bill Frisell to fill the guitar seat in many of his groups for upwards of 25 years now – begi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BILL FRISELL

As unassumingly as Bill Frisell presents himself in his everyday life is as fiery and unabashedly bold he is wi...

Bill Frisell: Strange Meeting (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

Bill Frisell’s pair of recordings from 1992, a wide-ranging collection of covers entitled Have a Little Faith and thi...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BILL FRISELL

As unassumingly as Bill Frisell presents himself in his everyday life is as fiery and unabashedly bold he is wi...

Bill Frisell: Strange Meeting (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music February 14, 09

In this Bill Frisell composition, Bob Stewart's tuba is the perfect backdrop for an unlikely excursion into the ...

Bill Frisell: Little Brother Bobby (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 10, 09

Hank Roberts’ sound incorporates the diverse styles of jazz, classical, rock and folk. As a student at the Berklee S...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ CELLO

Can the cello swing? Can the cello be as melodically sophisticated as traditional jazz instruments? Is the cell...

Bill Frisell: Throughout (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

Bill Frisell embarked on a freelancing career in the late 1970s that found him performing in Boston, New York, and Be...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BILL FRISELL

As unassumingly as Bill Frisell presents himself in his everyday life is as fiery and unabashedly bold he is wi...

Bill Frisell: Gimme A Holler (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

It’s ironic that Nashville, Bill Frisell’s farthest wander from recognizable jazz at this point in his career, record...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BILL FRISELL

As unassumingly as Bill Frisell presents himself in his everyday life is as fiery and unabashedly bold he is wi...

Bill Frisell: Rambler (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 14, 09

Bill Frisell refuses to be pigeonholed into a particular genre or style. For this adventure into ethnically inspired ...

Jim Hall & Bill Frisell: Migration (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 01, 09

It's been written that if Bill Frisell were to play without his electronic effects, he would sound like Jim Hall. It'...

Bill Frisell: Disfarmer Theme (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music August 19, 09

Bill Frisell has composed a rich, deep soundtrack—but without a movie to go along with it. Instead he has found unli...

Bill Frisell: Goodnight Irene (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

The players in Bill Frisell’s longest standing current trio doubles as the rhythm section for the Sex Mob - bassist T...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BILL FRISELL

As unassumingly as Bill Frisell presents himself in his everyday life is as fiery and unabashedly bold he is wi...

Bill Frisell: Live to Tell (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

Bill Frisell's entire career is represented here in a single, 10-minute microcosm. The slowly building melodic concep...

Bill Frisell: Crazy (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

You ever notice how difficult it is to get a good look at a tropical fish while walking around the tank? How the wate...

Bill Frisell: We're Not From Around Here (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Bill Frisell’s wide-ranging musical tastes have led him to produce some of the most exciting jazz recordings of the l...

Bill Frisell: I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 06, 08

Though he is known for the eclecticism of his music and the varying instrumentation of his many groups, guitarist Bil...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE NEW STANDARDS

Jazz musicians have always used popular music for improvisational vehicles. Songs from Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, eve...

Paul Motian (with Joe Lovano & Bill Frisell): Yahllah (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music January 14, 08

In the last 15 years, many modern groups have become frequent visitors to the Vanguard stage – none with more re...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Whenever I step inside the Village Vanguard, I am always struck by a déjà vu sense of the awe-inspiring amounts of ...

Jim Hall & Bill Frisell: Masters of War (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 07, 08

Over the past two decades, eclectic guitarist Bill Frisell ("eclectric" maybe) has become renowned for maverick tune ...

Bill Frisell: Tales From The Far Side (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 16, 09

A fan favorite and widespread critical success, Frisell’s foray into orchestral arrangements of his back catalog were...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: BILL FRISELL

As unassumingly as Bill Frisell presents himself in his everyday life is as fiery and unabashedly bold he is wi...

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