Album Details
Title: Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton
Artist: Bill Frisell
Release Date: 1995
Re-Released On: 9/13/2005
Label: Elektra Entertainment, Nonesuch Records
Duration: 69:19
UPCs: 075597935028, 075597935042, 603497073962
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 |
Track Listings
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Go West: Down on Luck
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Go West: Box Car
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Go West: Busy Street Scene
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Go West: Go West
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Go West: Train
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Go West: Brown Eyes
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Go West: Saddle Up!
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Go West: First Aid
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Go West: Bullfight
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Go West: Wolves
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Go West: New Day
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Go West: Branded
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Go West: Eats
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Go West: Splinter Scene
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Go West: Cattle Drive
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Go West: Card Game
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Go West: Ambush
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Go West: Passing Through Pasadena
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Go West: To the Streets
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Go West: Tap Dancer and Confusion
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Go West: Devil Suit
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Go West: Cops and Fireman
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Go West: That a Boy!
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Go West: I Want Her
Additional Releases
| Year | Type | Label | Catalog # | | 2005 | CD | Nonesuch Records | | | 1995 | CD | Elektra Entertainment | 79350 |
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Other Editions
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Album Review
In 1995, Bill Frisell released an instrumental album composed for Buster Keaton's films, Go West. The disc acts as the live accompaniment to the silent films, much like seeing them in their original release form. Go West is a Buster Keaton classic often compared to the Charlie Chaplin classics. The story follows a down-and-out Midwesterner following Horace Greeley's adage "Go West, young man!" Classic hilarity in this film includes a milking scene and a card game. (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle makes an in-drag cameo.) The original soundtrack recording also includes Kermit Driscoll on acoustic and electric basses and Joey Barron on percussion. Frisell and his band performed the music to all three films at St. Ann's in Brookly, NY, in May of 1993. The warmly recorded albums are adventurous and evocative. Critics described Bill Frisell's inspired episodic work with Keaton's films as "deceptively modest" and "melancholy Americana. These rich narrative accompaniments are essential for students of cinema 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 films High Sign and One Week. ~ JT Griffith, All Music Guide
Credits
| Name | Credits | | Bill Frisell | Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Acoustic) | | Bill Frisell Band | Performer | | Christian Jones | Assistant Engineer | | Greg Calbi | Mastering | | Jacqueline Kim | Photography | | Joey Baron | Percussion, Drums | | Johnny Gall | Design | | Judy Clapp | Mixing | | Kermit Driscoll | Bass (Electric), Bass (Acoustic) | | Lee Townsend | Producer | | Mark Slagle | Assistant Engineer | | Oliver Di Cicco | Engineer |
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