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Bill Frisell – guitar
Ron Carter – bass
Paul Motian – drums

Produced by Lee Townsend

Recorded February 14-15, 2005, at Avatar Studios, New York, NY
Recorded and mixed by James Farber
Assistant Engineer: Ross Peterson

Mixed at In the Pocket Studio, Forestville, CA
Assistant Engineer: John Paul McLean
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, New York, NY

Production Assistance: Adam Blomberg

Design by John Gall
Photography by Ralph Gibson

Nonesuch

 
REVIEWS

As a departure from his forays into twisted Americana and world music, the inventive guitarist delivers a bona-fide jazz album. The all-star threesome performs like a seasoned band, and Frisell remains the only six-string poet of his generation. – Steve Futterman, The New Yorker Best of 2006

Guitarist Bill Frisell is a master of reflective, quiet but subtly quirky lines that flow from the lyrical to the angular. He can also sling arrows into the mix, but here in the company of two of jazz’s greatest rhythm players, Frisell steers away from sudden blasts and settles into the fluidity of cliché-free improvisation. What’s remarkable is how untethered the leader and trio play. Ron Carter steers with his unpredictable bass runs, countermelodies and motifs as Paul […]

Song List:

x.mp3  1. Lazy       3:23
x.mp3  2. Mandeville 3:48
x.mp3  3. Little Waltz    6:55
x.mp3  4. Mood       4:44

Bill Frisell – guitar
Ron Carter – bass
Paul Motian – drums

Produced by Lee Townsend PURCHASE DIGITAL

Recorded February 14-15, 2005, at Avatar Studios, New York, NY
Recorded and mixed by James Farber
Assistant Engineer: Ross Peterson

Mixed at In the Pocket Studio, Forestville, CA
Assistant Engineer: John Paul McLean
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, New York, NY

Production Assistance: Adam Blomberg

Photography by Ralph Gibson

Nonesuch

SPOTIFY ITUNES AMAZON

BILL FRISELL electric & acoustic guitars, loops
MATT CHAMBERLAIN drums, percussion, loop
TUCKER MARTINE production
LEE TOWNSEND production

with guests:
Viktor Krauss acoustic & electric bass
Ron Miles cornet (tracks 1-3,7,8)
Eyvind Kang violin, viola (tracks 1-3,7,8)

All songs by Chamberlain-Frisell-Martine-Townsend
except tracks 9-11 by Chamberlain-Frisell-Martine-Townsend-Krauss
Horn and string arrangements by Bill Frisell
Engineered by Tucker Martine

Blue Note Records

REVIEWS

The Decade In Review: Jazz And The Mash-Up

It’s difficult to frame the last 10 years in jazz around its “most important” recordings: What strikes me as most important about this decade is that musically, anything went. In the age of the mash-up and the iPod shuffle — where musically different artists can sit comfortably against each other — jazz’s continual flexibility to incorporate any number of sounds and distill them within a jazz framework is what’s made this decade so refreshing.

So what defines “importance?” The musician in me wants to say that the most important albums were the ones that we believe to be the most musically skillful or adventurous, or those which introduce us to a new exciting voice in jazz — Jason Moran, The Bad Plus and Brian Blade Fellowship come to mind. But […]

PURCHASE CD AMAZON ITUNES SPOTIFY (Grammy Nominated for Best Instrumental Jazz Album)

Bill Frisell electric & acoustic guitars, loops
Ron Miles cornet
Greg Tardy tenor saxophone, clarinet
Jenny Scheinman violin
Eyvind Kang viola
Hank Roberts cello
Tony Scherr bass
Kenny Wollesen drums

Produced by Lee Townsend

Recording and Mixing Engineer: Shawn Pierce
Mastering Engineer: Greg Calbi

Recorded at Avast 2 Seattle; Lisner Auditorium, Washington D.C.; Hopkins Center, Hanover, New Hampshire; and Berklee Performance Center, Boston

Mixed at Avast 2, Seattle
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York

Additional mixing and editing: Adam Munoz
Production Assistance: Adam Blomberg
Asistant Engineers: Cathy Ferrante, Austin Sousa and Cameron Nicklaus
Live Sound: Claudia Engelhart

All compositions by Bill Frisell (Friz-Tone Music/BMI) except:

“Baba Drame” by Boubacar Traore (Label Bleu/SACEM)
“A Change is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke (ABKCO Music Inc/BMI)
“Jackie-ing” by Thelonious Monk (Thelonious Monk Music Corp/BMI)
“Sub-Conscious Lee” by Lee Konitz (Konitz Music/BMI)

Cover photographs by Russell Lee

Nonesuch Records

REVIEWS

“Some artists, as they grow older, have a tendency to retreat into a safety zone that displays their skill but doesn’t expand their repertoire or provide impetus for keeping up. Not so guitarist Bill Frisell … [H]e’s been refining and expanding his palette with every release…. The whole album […]

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Bill Frisell – guitar, loops

Filmed on location at the Berkeley Church,
Toronto, Canada April 4, 2004.
Filmed in Hi-definition (HD) video and surround-sound audio.
Original Sessions produced by Original Spin Media.
Directed by Daniel Berman
Editors: Daniel Berman and Paul McNulty
Recording and Mixing Engineer: Phil Hay

DVD produced by Daniel Berman, Paul McNulty and Lee Townsend
A co-production of Songline/Tone Field Productions and Original Spin Media.

Design by Gwen Terpstra, Terpstra Design
Photography by Gary Taylor

SPOTIFY ITUNES AMAZON

Produced by Lee Townsend

Except tracks 4, 6, 10 & 11 produced by Wayne Horvitz

All compositions written by Bill Frisell (Friz-Tone Music/BMI) except

“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” by Hank Williams (Sony/ATV/Acuff Rose Music/BMI), “Sugar Baby”, “Shenandoah” and “Sittin’ on Top of the World” (Traditional), “Have a Little Faith In Me” by John Hiatt (Lillybilly Music/BUG/BMI), “Wildwood Flower” by A.P. Carter (PRS/BMI)

Nonesuch Records

Tracks 1, 12 from Ghost Town (Nonesuch Records)
Bill Frisell, electric and acoustic guitars (1), acoustic guitar (12)
Recording and Mixing Engineer: Christian Jones

Tracks 2, 7, 9 from Gone, Just Like a Train (Nonesuch Records)
Bill Frisell, acoustic guitar
Viktor Krauss, bass
Jim Keltner, drums (2, 9), drums and percussion (7)
Recording and Mixing Engineer: Judy Clapp

Tracks 3, 14 from The Willies (Nonesuch Records)
Bill Frisell, acoustic guitar (3), acoustic and electric guitars (14)
Danny Barnes, banjo
Keith Lowe, bass
Recording and Mixing Engineer: Tucker Martine

Tracks 4, 11 from Nashville (Nonesuch Records)
Bill Frisell, electric guitar (4), acoustic guitar (11)
Jerry Douglas, dobro
Viktor Krauss, bass
Recording Engineer: Roger Moutenot

Tracks 5, 8, 15 from Good God, Happy Man (Nonesuch Records)
Bill Frisell, electric guitar and loop (5), acoustic guitar (8), electric and acoustic guitars (15)
Ry Cooder, electric and Ripley guitar […]

SPOTIFY ITUNES AMAZON

Bill Frisell – electric and acoustic guitars, loops, music boxes
Greg Leisz – steel guitars, mandolin
Jenny Scheinman – violin
Viktor Krauss – bass

Produced by Lee Townsend

Recording and Mixing Engineer: Tucker Martine
Mastering Engineer: Greg Calbi
Recorded at Avast Studio, Seattle (February, ’08) and Sound Emporium, Nashville (May, ’08)
Mixed at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York City
Production assistance: Adam Blomberg
Assistant engineers: Taylor Pollert, Jesse Nichols and Adam Munoz
Design by Evan Gaffney
Photographs on booklet back, inlay and opposite page by Michael Wilson
All other photographs by Mike Disfarmer

Nonesuch Records

All compositions by Bill Frisell (Friz-Tone Music/BMI) except:
“That’s Alright, Mama” by Arthur Crudup (Unichappell Music Inc./BMI)
“Lovesick Blues” by Cliff Friend and Irving Mills (EMI Mills Music/ASCAP)
“I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still In Love With You)” by Hank Williams Sr. (Sony/Acuff Rose Music/BMI)
“Shutter, Dream” by Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz, Jenny Scheinman and Viktor Krauss (Friz-Tone Music/Capsong/Bug Music/Split Window Music/BMI and Taylor Peak Music/ASCAP)
“Arkansas” is based on the song “Arkansas Traveler” by Colonel Sanford C. ‘Sandy’ Faulkner

REVIEWS

“Like David Lynch, postjazz guitarist Bill Frisell has a knack for insinuating an odd haze around the most wholesome aspects of Americana. Disfarmer, […]

PURCHASE CD AMAZON ITUNES SPOTIFY

Bill Frisell – guitar
Eyvind Kang – viola
Rudy Royston – drums

Produced by Lee Townsend

Recording and Mixing Engineer: Adam Muñoz Mastering Engineer: Greg Calbi Production Assistance: Adam Blomberg

Recorded and Mixed at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, Ca March/April 2010 Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York

Photography: Michael Wilson
Art Design: Gwen Terpstra, Terpstra Design

Savoy Label Group

All compositions by Bill Frisell, Friz-Tone Music/BMI except:

Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Foster
It¹s Nobody¹s Fault but Mine by Blind Willie Johnson Benny’s Bugle by Benny Goodman Tea For Two by Vincent Youmans Goin¹ Out Of My Head by Teddy Randazzo – Bobby Weinstein Keep On The Sunny Side by A.P. Carter

REVIEWS

When listening to Bill Frisell play, it’s easy to forget you’re hearing an electric guitar. Through touch, tone and voicings that are free of the usual six-string tropes, his instrument can sound, variously, like a pedal steel, a toy piano, a string quartet, a church bell, a plane in the distance, even a human voice.

This remarkable gift continues to serve him well on his 29th solo album, whether he’s covering Stephen Foster […]

SPOTIFY ITUNES AMAZON

Vinicius Cantuária – vocals, percussion and acoustic guitar
Bill Frisell – electric and acoustic guitars, loops

Produced by Lee Townsend

Recording Engineers:  Jason Lehning and Adam Muñoz
Mixing Engineer:  Adam Muñoz
Mastering Engineer: Greg Calbi
Production Assistance: Adam Blomberg

Recorded at Avast Recording, Seattle and Fantasy Studios, Berkeley
Mixed at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York

Entertainment One Music/Naïve, 2011

All Songs Composed by Vinicius Cantuária and Bill Frisell
Warner Chappell/BMI – Friz-Tone Music/BMI

REVIEWS

The guitars of Bill Frisell and Vinicius Cantuária melt together in my car speakers as if impossibly designed to echo the beauty in this very moment…
For those familiar with these two artists, either individually or in their previous collaborative incarnations including Frisell’s own Intercontinentals or Cantuária’s absorbing Horse and Fish, their high level of artistic integrity and deep level of musical simpatico is a given. However, on Lágrimas Mexicanas their collaboration reaches a milestone with their first true duet record. In fact, Frisell and Cantuária are the only two musicians on the entire record, credited with vocals, percussion, acoustic and electric guitars and loops. The only outside contribution comes in the form of […]

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Bill Frisell – guitar
Jenny Scheinman – violin
Eyvind Kang – viola
Hank Roberts – cello

Produced by Lee Townsend

Recording and Mixing Engineer: Adam Muñoz
Mastering Engineer: Greg Calbi
Production Assistance: Adam Blomberg

Recorded and mixed at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York

Art Design: Gwen Terpstra, Terpstra Design
Photo: Michael Wilson

All music composed by Bill Frisell at the Vermont Studio Center between September 27th and October 16th, 2010.

Savoy Label Group

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REVIEWS

Sign of Life finds Frisell exploring chamber-group dynamics and interplay in ways that toggle between composition and improvisation, reverberating soundscapes and spiky minimalism… Owing to Frisell¹s familiar touch, tone and affection for roots music, a few tunes on Signs of Life should instantly appeal to his Nashville-bred following … and the arrangements take full advantage of the ensemble¹s rich sonorities and intuitive level of play.­ by Mike Joyce, Jazz Times

“Frisell in peak form… the band’s extemporaneous arrangements deliver intricately worked variations on fiddle and guitar breakdowns and big vista American pastoralism …. The sound sparkles like springwater.” – Phil Johnson, The Independent – London

Bill Frisell’s Sign of Life (Savoy Jazz) is one of the most gorgeous new albums I’ve […]