Re: recommended recordings - Frisell

[Greg Kucharo <telecaster@mac.com>]

   If you are a guitarist. All Frisell recordings are recommended 
listening. From a looping perspective I would agree that his older ECM 
stuff is probably at the top, although he continues to use delays in 
his overall sound. From a purely Frisell perspective, I am partial to 
Quartet and Good Dog, Happy Man. Nashville is also worth picking up 
immediately. Beautiful, gorgeous, enveloping music. Frisell seems to be 
undervalued on this list, although I can't understand why as looping 
and delays and layering are really his sound.


On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 09:38 AM, Victor Nicholls wrote:

> Steve suggested:
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>> Ghost Town is a truly remarkable album, was a defining moment for me,
>> listening wise... every note Frisell plays is essential, but 
>> GhostTown is a
>> marvellous loop intro to the great man. also worth checking out are 
>> all the
>> trio records, the recent one with Elvin Jones and Dave Holland, the 
>> Buster
>> Keaton soundtracks, and the live mid 90s one...
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> Agree that these are great records with very musical looping. But my 
> top
> defining moment was hearing the Power Tools record "Strange Meeting" 
> with
> Melvin Gibbs and Ronald Shannon Jackson. Absolutely awesome; potent,
> musical, haunting. Dont know if it's still in print but was released on
> Antilles in UK in 1988.
>
> Another essential source of Frisell loopabilly are the trio records 
> with
> Paul Motian and Joe Lovano. And no bass player - fantastic (I say this 
> as a
> bass player)! A good starting point is "Live in Tokyo" on JMT.
>
> And then there's "Absinthe" by Naked City (Tzadik); ambient 
> swampadelica
> grunge  loops.
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> Enough for now.
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> victor
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