Bill Frisell - Live (1995)

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Bill Frisell had been working regularly with bassist Kermit Driscoll and drummer Joey Baron for five years when they recorded this concert in Spain in 1991. The familiarity shows in the spontaneity and in the intuitive grasp of every shifting musical gesture. The 70-minute performance may show Frisell's range and the ease with which he flows from one mood or genre to another better than any single studio CD. There's nothing contrived about the way a piece of Appalachian-inspired melody can sing with heightened clarity, only to transmute into fractured bits of electronic sound; nothing false in a Sonny Rollins bop tune, "No Moe," taking on country-western and funk edges. It's Frisell's sheer involvement with his guitar and all the dimensions of music that comes through here, more than the strange ballet between common and arcane forms. He can immerse himself in forms from bop and free jazz to folk melodies and rock, slide from high modern pointillism to heavy-metal chord storms, or play his way from Baroque dance forms to surf guitar and spy-movie themes. The eerie bends and film noir ambience of the often-played "Strange Meeting" might serve as a symbol for the whole enterprise. There's hardly a musical border that doesn't get blurred here, but it's the feeling of a band enjoying what they're doing that comes through strongest, so that even the strangest and most subtle transitions come off with the naturalness and enthusiasm of a garage band. --Stuart Broomer

Tracklist:

1. Throughout	Listen
2. Rag	Listen
3. Crumb/No Moe	Listen
4. Have A Little Faith In Me	Listen
5. Pip, Squeak/Goodbye	Listen
6. Hello Nellie	Listen
7. Strange Meeting	Listen
8. Hangdog	Listen
9. Child At Heart	Listen
10. Again	Listen
11. When We Go	Listen

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Bill Frisell - Where in the World?

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These recordings from 1990-91 add cellist Hank Roberts to Bill Frisell's then-usual trio with bassist Kermit Driscoll and drummer Joey Baron, and there's a remarkable affinity between Roberts and Frisell's instrumental approaches. So much of Frisell's distinctive guitar style has come from his attention to sustain and pitch bending, qualities immediately available in Roberts's cello. Several of the guitarist's compositions here are concentrated on that relationship and on the spatial distinction that exists between those effects when they're accomplished by acoustic or electronic means. It's one of the things separating Frisell from the more commonplace forms of jazz fusion. He actually explores the differences and crossovers between acoustic and electronic space to create a musical analogue for the ways we experience technology. That's also evident in his contrasting uses of acoustic and electric guitars on individual tracks. There are tracks here, like "Rob Roy" and "Smilin' Jones," when Frisell's music suggests a parallel evolution of American music, as if country & western and not jazz had become its "art" music. With its rhythmic and tonal conflicts and odd, oscillating blendings of acoustic guitar harmonics, bowed cello, and Roberts's electronic "jazz-a-phone fiddle," the title track seems to pose "Where in the World?" as a utopian question. --Stuart Broomer

Tracklist:

1. Unsung Heroes	Listen
2. Rob Roy	Listen
3. Spell	Listen
4. Child At Heart	Listen
5. Beautiful E.	Listen
6. Again	Listen
7. Smilin' Jones	Listen
8. Where In The World?	Listen
9. Worry Doll	Listen
10. Let Me In	Listen

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The Godfather Part III: [SOUNDTRACK]

Tracklist:

1. Main Title - Nino Rota	Listen
2. The Godfather Waltz - Nino Rota	Listen
3. Marcia Religioso - Carmine Coppola and Nino Rota	Listen
4. Michael's Letter - Carmine Coppola and Nino Rota	Listen
5. Immigrant/Love Theme From 'the Godfather, Pt. Iii - Carmine Coppola and Nino Rota	Listen
6. The Godfather Waltz - Nino Rota	Listen
7. To Each His Own - Al Martino	Listen
8. Vincent's Theme - Carmine Coppola and Nino Rota	Listen
9. Altobello - Carmine Coppola and Nino Rota	Listen
10. The Godfather Intermezzo - Carmine Coppola and Nino Rota	Listen
11. Sicilian Medley: Va Pensiero/etc... - Carmine Coppola	Listen
12. Promise Me You'll Remember (Love Theme...) - Harry Connick Jr.	Listen
13. Preludio And Siciliana - Turiddu	Listen
14. A Casa Amiche - Turiddu and chorus	Listen
15. Preghiera - Chorus	Listen
16. Finale - Turiddu and chorus	Listen
17. Coda: The Godfather Finale - Nino Rota	Listen

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