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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0075597940121 Label: Nonesuch Manufacturer: Nonesuch Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Nonesuch Release Date: April 09, 1996 Studio: Nonesuch Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential recording: With his indelible, elastic tone, restless curiosity, and open-eared approach to music beyond the traditional corridors of jazz, guitarist Bill Frisell is among the most prolific and continually surprising improvisers alive. Quartet is built around a typically inventive, typically off-centered Frisell lineup including Ron Miles (trumpet, piccolo trumpet), Eyvind Kang (violin, tuba), and Curtis Fowlkes (trombone) who draw from a sonorous palette. By avoiding a conventional rhythm section and piano, Frisell and his confederates create a group sound with the intimacy of small jazz group while tapping the timbres of chamber music; the material (which includes pieces composed for a TV special built around friend Gary Larson's "Far Side" cartoons) is equally beyond category. --Sam Sutherland Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Lovely, occasionally a bit backgroundish...This is really a nice and imaginative collaboration of unconventional line-up (with some really fine musicians), drawing from various genres of jazz and other types of music... I'm not really familiar with Frisell's work but this is really creative. Additionally, I think that wider non-jazz audiences might really like this blend of styles and different ideas... However (maybe because most of this material is developed as soundtrack for various film and tv projects), at times ... Read More Rating:  - good soundtrack to a dark acid tripIs there anything that Bill Frisell can't play? He's done Jazz, Rock, Americana, World, Orchestral and every hybrid that could be created by cross pollinating these five flowers. Along the lines of 1993's "Have A Little Faith," this is an orchestral project combining elements of Jazz, Rock and Americana. Regardless of the quirky performances, "Bill Frisell Quartet" has a cartoonish sound since the music is played with trumpet, tuba, piccolo trumpet, violin, trombone and guitar. Indeed, this 1996 release ... Read More Rating: - A Frisell MasterpieceThis outing is on the outer fringes of eclecticism even by Bill's standard with this wild ensemble. The odd instrumentation succeeds in making extremely modern music that swings (without a drummer!), is humorous, tranquil, totally Bill. This date is still a fresh sound five years later into Bill's explorations of old-timey meets whatever. Even after Bill's more recent projects, if this album were coming out now, for the first time, it would sound like a wild new direction/addition to what he's been up to. ... Read More Rating: - Very Interesting!This wonderful line-up works very well. The first cut is simply awesome and the rest are quite good. To try to compare Frisell to any other guitarist is pointless. He has a distinct sound and style. If you like guitar music though you must have some Frisell in your collection. This should not be you first Frisell purchase (Good Dog... is a great place to start) but if you like the unusually pairings on This Land and Have a Little Faith this one's for you. Rating:  - A nice albumCharming music from the inventive Frisell, with the unusual lineup of guitar, trombone, violin and trumpet. Much of the music derives from a soundtrack to an animated Gary Larson cartoon special (Larson is a keen jazz guitarist & buddies with Frisell), & without having seen it I would still guess the music fits it perfectly, with its mixture of ponderous weirdness and surreal whimsy. -- Such a link might suggest one of the album's flaws: it's charming, beautiful, immaculately played, &c...but is it Frisell's ... Read More |
