Bill Frisell - This Land

Title: This Land Artist: Bill Frisell Release Date: 10/1992 Re-Released On: 9/13/2005 Label: Nonesuch Records, Elektra Entertainment, Elektra Duration: 65:28 UPCs: 075597931624, 075597931648, 603497074167 Genre: Jazz Styles: Modern Creative, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Guitar Jazz Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Cerebral, Freewheeling, Laid-Back/Mellow, Playful, Refined/Mannered, Reflective, Searching, Ambitious, Complex, Dramatic, Earnest, Elaborate, Hypnotic, Literate, Meandering, Passionate, Plaintive, Precious, Provocative, Sentimental, Sophisticated, Spacey, Stately, Uncompromising, Witty, Wry Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 5 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Is It Sweet?
2. Strange Meeting
3. Jimmy Carter, Pt. 1
4. Jimmy Carter, Pt. 2
5. This Land
6. Dog Eat Dog
7. Amarillo, Barbados
8. Monica Jane
9. Resistor
10. Julius Hemphill
11. Unscientific Americans
12. Cartoon
13. Rag
14. Tag

Year Type Label Catalog # 2005 CD Elektra 1994 CD Nonesuch Records 79316 1994 CD Elektra Entertainment 79316

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Famed photographer Walker Evans' black-and-white photo of a rural Mississippi railroad station sets the stage for guitarist Bill Frisell's homespun depiction of Americana on this 1994 release. Here, the artist and his horn-based sextet serve up an aural panorama consisting of country blues motifs, modern jazz, and even Caribbean grooves. The guitarist's now familiar penchant for constructing climactic opuses framed upon his deft utilization of volume control and often-slithery mode of attack counterbalances the horn sections' pumping notes and harmonious choruses. Essentially, melody is the key throughout these pleasantly arranged pieces, as Frisell makes his axe talk and cry while also partaking in lustrous unison lines with Don Byron (clarinet), Curtis Fowlkes (trombone), and Billy Drewes (alto sax). Overall, This Land signifies yet another powerful statement by this wonderfully inventive musician. Recommended! ~ Glenn Astarita, All Music Guide

Name Credits Bill Frisell Guitar Billy Drewes Sax (Alto) Curtis Fowlkes Trombone Deborah Feingold Photography Don Byron Clarinet (Bass), Clarinet Greg Calbi Mastering Joe Ferla Engineer Joey Baron Drums John Heiden Design Kermit Driscoll Bass, Bass (Acoustic), Bass (Electric) Kevin Scott Assistant Engineer Lee Townsend Producer Mark Slagle Editing Walker Evans Photography