Bill Frisell: East/West
CML call number: CD/JAZZ/Frisell
Contents: Disc 1 (recorded live in Oakland, CA): I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Blues for Los Angeles, Shenandoah, Boubacar, Pipe Down, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Dylan); Disc 2 (recorded live at the Village Vanguard): My Man's Gone Now, The Days of Wine and Roses, You Can Run, Ron Carter, Interlude, Goodnight Irene, The Vanguard, People, Crazy, Tennessee Flat Top Box.
Personnel: Bill Frisell, guitars, loops; Viktor Krauss, bass, Kenny Wollesen, drums (Disc 1); Tony Scherr, bass, acoustic guitar, Kenny Wollesen, drums, percussion (Disc 2).
Howard Mandel wrote in the New York Press: "Frisell, back in the halcyon '80s, was the East Village improvisers' electric stringman of choice, a soft-spoken man by turns gently melodic and outrageously explosive. Since moving to Seattle in the '90s, he's muted some of his crunch in favor of high-lonesome Americana, but on his most recent album East/West he refreshes unlikely tunes -- 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' and 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' among them. He plays his instrument top to bottom and inside out …" ("Guitar Gods," 4/19-25/06).
Contents: Disc 1 (recorded live in Oakland, CA): I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Blues for Los Angeles, Shenandoah, Boubacar, Pipe Down, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Dylan); Disc 2 (recorded live at the Village Vanguard): My Man's Gone Now, The Days of Wine and Roses, You Can Run, Ron Carter, Interlude, Goodnight Irene, The Vanguard, People, Crazy, Tennessee Flat Top Box.
Personnel: Bill Frisell, guitars, loops; Viktor Krauss, bass, Kenny Wollesen, drums (Disc 1); Tony Scherr, bass, acoustic guitar, Kenny Wollesen, drums, percussion (Disc 2).
Howard Mandel wrote in the New York Press: "Frisell, back in the halcyon '80s, was the East Village improvisers' electric stringman of choice, a soft-spoken man by turns gently melodic and outrageously explosive. Since moving to Seattle in the '90s, he's muted some of his crunch in favor of high-lonesome Americana, but on his most recent album East/West he refreshes unlikely tunes -- 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' and 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' among them. He plays his instrument top to bottom and inside out …" ("Guitar Gods," 4/19-25/06).
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