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BILL FRISELL

Unspeakable

Nonesuch

CHARLIE HUNTER

Friends seen and Unseen

Ropeadope

GTR

Guitarists Bill Frisell and Charlie Hunter both do their level best to bring jazz up to 1995

Amplification has been a given for so long now that when Barney Kessel died this spring at 80, it was startling to realize his was the first generation of electric guitarists-all the more so because in addition to alliances with Oscar Peterson and Jazz at the Philharmonic stressed by obituary writers, Kessel helped erect Phil Specter's wall of sound as a pop session man. TaI Farlow, Herb Ellis, Chuck Wayne, and Kessel were teenagers presumably already smitten with Django Reinhardt when a not much older Charlie ...

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