Bill Frisell - Rarum, Vol. 5: Selected Recordings

Title: Rarum, Vol. 5: Selected Recordings Artist: Bill Frisell Release Date: 5/21/2002 Re-Released On: 10/15/2002 Label: Japanese Import Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 044001419829, 4988005299482 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: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Mandeville
2. Introduction
3. India
4. Singsong
5. In Line
6. Resistor
7. Music I Heard
8. Tone
9. Lonesome
10. Alien Prints (For D. Sharpe)
11. Hangdog
12. Kind of Gentle
13. Closer
14. Sub Rosa (Dedicated to Bill Frisell)

Year Type Label Catalog # 2002 CD Japanese Import 4007 2002 CD Japanese Import 4007

Selected Recordings

Bill Frisell has made 14 sideman appearances on ECM but only three records as a leader on the label. His Rarum collection spans the 1980s, highlighting his earlier years. Paul Motian figures prominently in this story, as leader, composer, and sideman; "Mandeville," the leadoff track, is from 1981's Psalm, featuring Motian and Frisell with Joe Lovano, Billy Drewes, and Ed Schuller. Two more Motian tracks follow, then Jan Garbarek's "Singsong," which finds Frisell wailing. Tracks five through 11 feature Frisell as leader and composer: First there's the title cut from his 1982 debut, In Line, a multi-tracked acoustic piece, then three selections from Rambler and three more from Lookout for Hope. The transition from the wacky, banjo-driven "Hangdog" to Kenny Wheeler's "Kind of Gentle" is jarring, but no matter. Nearly a decade separates these two pieces, and it's interesting to hear Frisell, by the mid-'90s, favoring a clean, unprocessed tone (indicative, perhaps, of his growing interest in country music). After offering a quick peek at the 1986 Paul Bley Quartet (in which Motian reappears), Frisell closes with a brilliant stroke: a piece that doesn't feature him at all. Bassist Gavin Bryars wrote "Sub Rosa," from a 1993 disc called Vita Nova, in honor of Frisell. Playing the gorgeous, quasi-classical work is an ensemble of recorder, clarinet, violin, vibraphone, piano, and bass. "I sometimes have dreams of music like this," writes Frisell in his comically self-effacing liner notes. ~ David R. Adler, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alexander Balanescu Violin Bill Frisell Liner Notes, Guitar (Electric), Photography, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Synthesizer), Banjo, Guitar Billy Drewes Sax (Alto) Bob Stewart Tuba Chris Ekers Engineer Dave Holland Double Bass Eberhard Weber Bass Ed Schuller Double Bass, Bass Gavin Bryars Double Bass Hank Roberts Cello James Farber Engineer Jamie McCarthy Recorder, Engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug Engineer Jan Garbarek Sax (Soprano) Jan Garbarek Group ? Jerome Harris Guitar (Bass), Bass (Electric) Joe Lovano Sax (Tenor) Joey Baron Drums John Surman Sax (Soprano) John White Piano Kenny Wheeler Cornet, Trumpet Kermit Driscoll Guitar (Bass), Bass Lee Konitz Sax (Alto) Lee Townsend Producer Manfred Eicher Producer, Original Recording Producer Martin Allen Vibraphone Martin Wieland Engineer Michael DiPasqua Percussion, Drums Paul Bley Piano Paul Bley Quartet ? Paul Motian Percussion, Drums Paul Motian Trio ? Robyn Stoutenburg Photography Roger Heaton Clarinet W. Patrick Hinely Photography