Re: Bill Frisell

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:14:54 GMT, "Bill" <aa@xxxxxx> wrote:


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On Apr 24, 1:25 pm, "Dave Kelly" <sweet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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With all due respect to the Kimock Kampers, Frisell is the true
Master.
JimK


...
...but there's no THERE there.
His tone is lighter than a mosquitos peter.
...stop with the foot pedals and string
a coherent solo together...sheesh!
This guy is a classic example of a musician people talk
about more than listen to.
I have NO time for such naval gazing.


Some might consider this to be a "Masterful" description in many
ways. Ain't life funny that way sometimes?
ND

No ***. I think I'll know I'm in hell when I see a band with both of
them
in it - either one alone in a band is bad enough. Don't need that
jazzlite
***.

Frisell is "jazzlite"?

Yeah jazzlite, though he can be countrylite too.

I didn't find him to be remotely jazzy. As a matter
of fact, I don't know how I would characterize his playing, but jazz? Not
a
chance.

Well I guess when he was playing with Elvin Jones and Dave Holland, he was
thinking in the jazz vein though his playing jazzlite versus Elvin wanting
to play real jazz didn't work to well to my ears.


And Kimock isn't what I would call jazz either. Jazz influenced? Sure, but
he ain't a jazz player by a long shot.

Oh there's some definite cross over into the jazz vein in his playing.


Let me guess, you don't know much about music, do you?

Hey if jazzlite and countrylite and __lite floats your boat, congrats but
that aint my fault.

Bill

As always, one man's trash is another man's treasure, but I think
you're being a bit too dismissive here. Theirs may be no more or less
valid than your opinion, or mine, but there's no lack of professional
critics who think highly of Frisell's playing:

?For over ten years Bill Frisell has quietly been the most brilliant
and unique voice to come along in jazz guitar since Wes Montgomery. In
light of this, it may be easy to overlook the fact that he may also be
one of the most promising composers of American music on the current
scene.? - Stereophile

The New Yorker notes: ?Bill Frisell plays the guitar like Miles Davis
played the trumpet: in the hands of such radical thinkers, their
instruments simply become different animals. And, like Davis, Frisell
loves to have a lot of legroom when he improvises--the space that
terrifies others quickens his blood.?

On this subject Down Beat has noted: ?With his respectful if
improbable eclecticism and audible ethnic guitar roots, Frisell is the
new music's Ry Cooder...His engagingly droll sense of humor is never
far from the surface; no one else's persistent dissonances sound so
consistently congenial.?

Musician has described his guitar style as ?modern in the best sense
of the word, straddling the electronic ambiance and distortion of
contemporary rock and the nuances of touch and harmonic sophistication
usually associated with jazz.? The guitarist won the 1990 Down Beat
critics' poll.

?The electric guitar sound of the decade - oozing, cloudy enveloping -
belongs to jazz renegade Bill Frisell?Like the best artists in any
field, Frisell is not a slave to his tools; he's the creator who gives
them new validity...His guitar sound is unmistakable - billowing,
breathlike, multi-hued, immense at times, almost palpable. Frisell's
music is accessible and avant-garde, a lyrical victory of man over
machine, of personality over mechanics, of message over mathematics.?
- Minneapolis Star Tribune


JimK
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