Bill Frisell's career as a guitarist and composer has spanned more than 40 years and many celebrated recordings, whose catalog has been cited by Downbeat as "the best recorded output of the decade."
Wire, the British music publication has observed: "What's really distinctive is Frisell's feel for the shape of songs, for their architecture; it's a virtuosity of deep structure rather than surface."
Released March of '18, Frisell's latest solo album, Music IS - "Taken as a whole, the album beautifully encapsulates Frisell's depth and range in all its meditative glory."- Chicago Reader. It was recorded in August, 2017 at Tucker Martine's Flora Recording and Playback studio in Portland, Oregon and produced by longtime collaborator Lee Townsend. All of the compositions on Music IS were written by Frisell, some of them brand new - Change in the Air, Thankful, What Do You Want, Miss You and Go Happy Lucky - others being solo adaptations of now classic original compositions he had previously recorded, such as Ron Carter, Pretty Stars, Monica Jane, and The Pioneers. In Line, and Rambler are from Frisell's first two ECM albums.
Bill Frisell's career as a guitarist and composer has spanned more than 40 years and many celebrated recordings, whose catalog has been cited by Downbeat as "the best recorded output of the decade."
Wire, the British music publication has observed: "What's really distinctive is Frisell's feel for the shape of songs, for their architecture; it's a virtuosity of deep structure rather than surface."
Released March of '18, Frisell's latest solo album, Music IS - "Taken as a whole, the album beautifully encapsulates Frisell's depth and range in all its meditative glory."- Chicago Reader. It was recorded in August, 2017 at Tucker Martine's Flora Recording and Playback studio in Portland, Oregon and produced by longtime collaborator Lee Townsend. All of the compositions on Music IS were written by Frisell, some of them brand new - Change in the Air, Thankful, What Do You Want, Miss You and Go Happy Lucky - others being solo adaptations of now classic original compositions he had previously recorded, such as Ron Carter, Pretty Stars, Monica Jane, and The Pioneers. In Line, and Rambler are from Frisell's first two ECM albums.
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