Title: Frisell with Elvin Holland on Bass and Dave Jones on Drums
Review: Who are Elvin Holland and Dave Jones you ask? I don't know either, but Bill Frisell might as well have hired them for this date. This CD is plain awful, and should have remained in the can. Virtually none of the personality of Holland and Jones comes through, and Frisell tries to adapt his old tunes to this ensemble but fails miserably. Likely he just played the heads or melodies for Holland and Jones, and said "Let's play, and see what happens." Unfortunately, nothing happens. At all. To show how much heart was put into this, just listen to the last track where Elvin keeps playing after the song is done. Either he didn't know how the tune went, or he was just bored to tears playing vamps all day long. Since I was bored to tears, I assume the latter.
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