Bill Frisell - Live (Live at Teatro Lupe de Vega, Sevilla, Spain, 10/27/1991) '2024

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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

Bill Frisell - guitar
Kermit Driscoll - bass
Joey Baron - drums

Tracklist:
1.01 - Bill Frisell - Throughout (Live at Teatro Lupe de Vega, Sevilla, Spain,
10/27/1991) (6:42) 
1.02 - Bill Frisell - Rag (Live at Teatro Lupe de Vega, Sevilla, Spain,
10/27/1991) (5:18) 
1.03 - Bill Frisell - Medley: Crumb/No More (Live at Teatro Lupe de Vega,
Sevilla, Spain, 10/27/1991) (6:35) 
1.04 - Bill Frisell - Have a Little Faith in Me (Live at Teatro Lupe de Vega,
Sevilla, Spain, 10/27/1991) (5:13) 
1.05 - Bill Frisell - Medley: Pip, Squeak/Goodbye (Live at Teatro Lupe de Vega,
Sevilla, Spain, 10/27/1991) (8:56) 
1.06 - Bill Frisell - Hello Nellie (Live at Teatro Lupe de Vega, Sevilla, Spain,
10/27/1991) (8:14) 
1.07 - Bill Frisell - Strange Meeting (Live at Teatro Lupe de Vega, Sevilla,
Spain, 10/27/1991) (6:46) 
1.08 - Bill Frisell - Hangdog (Live at Teatro Lupe de Vega, Sevilla, Spain,
10/27/1991) (3:26) 
1.09 - Bill Frisell - Child at Heart (Live at Teatro Lupe de Vega, Sevilla,
Spain, 10/27/1991) (10:40) 
1.10 - Bill Frisell - Again (Live at Teatro Lupe de Vega, Sevilla, Spain,
10/27/1991) (5:51) 
1.11 - Bill Frisell - When We Go (Live at Teatro Lupe de Vega, Sevilla, Spain,
10/27/1991) (3:51)

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