Bill Frisell - High Sign/One Week

Title: High Sign/One Week Artist: Bill Frisell Release Date: 1995 Re-Released On: 9/13/2005 Label: Elektra Entertainment, Nonesuch Records Duration: 36:59 Album Type(s): soundtrack UPCs: 075597935127, 075597935141, 603497074068 Genre: Jazz Styles: Modern Creative, Post-Bop, 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: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. High Sign: Introduction :: Bill Frisell Band
2. The High Sign: High Sign Theme/Help Wanted :: Bill Frisell Band
3. High Sign: Target Practice :: Bill Frisell Band
4. The High Sign: Blinking Buzzards :: Bill Frisell Band
5. High Sign: Good Shot/Swearing in/Shooting Gallery :: Bill Frisell Band
6. High Sign: Chase/Cop :: Bill Frisell Band
7. High Sign: High Sign Theme/At the Home of August Nickelnurser :: Bill Frisell Band
8. High Sign: Chase/Caught :: Bill Frisell Band
9. The High Sign: High Sign Theme :: Bill Frisell Band
10. One Week: One Week Theme/The Wedding :: Bill Frisell Band
11. One Week: Reckless Driving :: Bill Frisell Band
12. One Week: Construction :: Bill Frisell Band
13. One Week: Oh, Well/Bath Scene :: Bill Frisell Band
14. One Week: Oh, Well/The Piano :: Bill Frisell Band
15. One Week: Fight :: Bill Frisell Band
16. One Week: Housewarming Party and Storm :: Bill Frisell Band
17. One Week: One Week Theme/Aftermath :: Bill Frisell Band
18. One Week: Here Comes the Train :: Bill Frisell Band
19. One Week: Oh, Well :: Bill Frisell Band

Year Type Label Catalog # 2005 CD Nonesuch Records 1995 CD Elektra Entertainment 79351

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In 1995, Bill Frisell released an instrumental album composed for Buster Keaton's films High Sign and One Week. The disc acts as the live accompaniment to the silent films, much like seeing them in their original release form. High Sign was the first film Keaton made independently, and portrays a director as a loner looking for work. One Week was his first publicly released film (and one of the top grossing hits of the 1920s), and is about a man who receives a build-it-yourself house from his new bride. Both films include some classic Buster Keaton moments, including a chase through a series of trapdoors and mishaps due to incorrect homebuilding directions. The original soundtrack recording includes Kermit Driscoll on acoustic and electric basses and Joey Baron on percussion. Frisell and his band performed the music to all three films at St. Ann's in Brooklyn, NY, in May of 1993. The warmly recorded albums are adventurous and evocative. Critics described Frisell's inspired episodic work with Keaton's films as "deceptively modest" and "melancholy Americana." These rich narrative accompaniments are essential for students of film music and evangelists of the power of the score to enrich and enlighten visual art. The group also wrote an original score to the Keaton film Go West. ~ JT Griffith, All Music Guide

Name Credits Bill Frisell Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Acoustic) Bill Frisell Band Performer Christian Jones Assistant Engineer Greg Calbi Mastering Jacqueline Kim Photography Joey Baron Drums, Percussion Johnny Gall Design Judy Clapp Mixing Kermit Driscoll Bass (Acoustic), Bass (Electric) Lee Townsend Producer Mark Slagle Assistant Engineer Oliver Di Cicco Engineer