By the time he recorded this deliriously oddball 1984 encounter, Bill Frisell had developed his signature haunting, haltering sound in recordings with Paul Motian and others. Hints of his later excursions into Americana and other unlikely fields of modernist jazz expansion are heard here and, strikingly, are enthusiastically joined by the raunchier Reid, who was en route from Defunkt and Decoding Society to his own successful funk-rock outfit, Living Colour. Frisell's pieces rollick and jog along at one moment, then sing languidly and sweetly at another, his bent and splayed electric guitar complemented by his jaunty acoustic guitar and the strange sonorities of the guitar synth. With Reid's wonderful counterpoint--a more raw guitar, squiggling electronics, synth drums beats, and an occasional hoe-downing banjo--the results are highly compelling. --Peter Monaghan
Smash & Scatteration,Bill Frisell and Vernon Reid,Rykodisc,Avant-Garde,Jazz,Jazz Music,Modern Creative,Pop,Post-Bop
Jazz Music:
- Solo Settings
- Songs of Cole Porter [Import]
- Speak, Brother, Speak
- Standards 1
- Straight Ahead
- Symbol Systems
- The Best of George Benson
- The Jim Basnight Thing
- The King And I: The Hit Musical - A Modern Jazz Interpretation
- The Prestige Christmas Collection
Jazz Music
Leave the Story Untold [Import]
Mozart the Remix/Various [Import]