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Article: Bill Frisell, Uttering A New Guitar Language
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 29, 2004
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There's never been a jazz musician quite like guitarist Bill
Frisell, mainly because jazz makes up only a small segment of his
musical world.
Frisell, make no mistake about it, is one of the most significant
improvisers to emerge in the past 20 years. He rewrote the rules for
jazz guitar, radically scaling back the rampant virtuosity that had
become endemic to six-string gladiators, while exploring sonic
dimensions disdained by mainstream players. There's a whole
generation of young guitarists who now belong to Frisell's unofficial
school. (His radical approach to jazz improvisation can best be
appreciated on his work with two longtime musical partners,
saxophonist Joe Lovano and drummer ...