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Article: Bill Frisell: Seattle's super sonic.(guitar player; music recording Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones)(Brief Article)(Interview)
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- Guitar Player
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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Step into Bill Frisell's musical kitchen, and you'll see one of guitar's master chefs in action. His daring recipes call for tart melodies, angular harmonies, and mercurial background textures, and, best of all, when he cooks up a solo album, he often invites stellar guests to join him. His new release, Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones [Nonesuch], is a case in point.
"I never dreamed I'd get to work with Elvin," says Frisell of John Coltrane's legendary drummer. "I didn't want to just do what Coltrane might have done with him--he probably gets asked to play that stuff all the time. Instead, I wanted to bring him into my world. We'd never played a ...