Title: Enticing, easy-going alt-Jazz
Review: Another eccentrically languid offering from this great guitarist with an excellent supporting cast provides ample counterpoint to a majority of sunny-side Jazz-guitar output. Touching around a multitude of styles, Frisell and company usually add a darkened, though certainly not negative connotation to what in lesser hands would have reeked of bland retreads (case in point: the often abused and exploited cover of Moon River totally works). Between imaginative covers, impressionistic homages to traditional forms, and heavier, more personal experimentation, this may be as good a crash course as any for beginners into this eclectic, prolific, singular artist. It is not his greatest- a few dead spots here and there crop up amidst reliable interplay, and the sampler feel touching on many different styles may alienate certain specific fan expectations, but in an attempt to be all things to all people of the mildly experimental jazz guitar form, the disc is a bridge-builder.
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