TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.3997
Bill Frisell Album Rankings
1
Bill Frisell has long been one of the most unique guitarists around.
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2
The vague country elements long dwelling on the fringes of Bill Frisell's music rise to the forefront onNashville, an exquisitely atmospheric collection recorded in Music City with the aid of dobro le
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3
Blues Dream is both a compendious evocation and synthesis of a range of genres that never sounds merely eclectic...
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4
Simultaneously adventurous, beautiful, and full of depth.
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5
No doubt pleased with his countrified direction onGone, Just Like A Train, Frisell gives us a lot more of basically the same thing here -- only with expanded numbers in the ranks.
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6
One of the more encouraging signs of life in the current music scene has been the slow, sure rise of Bill Frisell into the ranks of alternative guitar heroes.
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7
The jazz chameleon's latest guise is that of a funk-rock conductor.
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8
Having laid down jazz-informed tracks with bassist Dave Holland and drummer Elvin Jones on his last release, accomplished composer, guitarist and bandleader Frisell returns to the county and bluegrass
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9
Bill Frisell is a jazz guitarist primarily by virtue of the influence of jazz guitar virtuoso Jim Hall; otherwise, Frisell is an amazing amalgam of stylistic influences that make him something of the
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10
Drawing from all over the musical spectrum, Frisell selects drummer Jim Keltner (best known for his records with George Harrison, Eric Clapton and other rock stars) and bassist Viktor Krauss (a fixtu
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12
Since the '70s, the specter of fusion has haunted jazz.
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14
In 1995, Bill Frisell released an instrumental album composed for Buster Keaton's films, Go West.
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17
This relatively early set from Bill Frisell is a fine showcase for the utterly unique guitarist.
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18
Guitarist Bill Frisell had one of the most stimulating and eccentric regular bands of the mid- to late 1980s.
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21
The music from Richter 858 was originally commissioned and recorded to accompany a book of paintings by Gerhard Richter, which was only available in limited quantities back in 2002.
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24
Bill Frisell has been one of the most unique jazz-based guitarists of the 1980s and '90s, a very eclectic player who can switch styles and sounds on a moment's notice, yet is always quite distinctive
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25
Recorded in 1989 while Frisell was still a member of Naked City, Is That You? finds the guitarist already trending away from that band's scattershot assault and toward the more pastoral leanings he w
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27
A Bill Frisell solo can invoke amber waves of grain, the south side of Chicago, and various places in New England, all in the space of three bars.
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