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Title: his best
Review: (I've seen him live since this review, and it appears that Frisell may get better on each attempt.) Bill Frisell is my idea of world music: He can switch from wide-open major-scale Americana, to raga-like easternisms, bombs-bursting-in-air, Miles- with-McLaughlin funk, (and thoughful mutations of all the above), whenever and wherever the effect will be best felt, all the while reflecting his own will and style over the myriad changes. He may be both the most concrete of improvisors and the most abstract, with clear grounding for his stranger moments. ////See him live///: BF has a surprisingly joyful stage presence,, rather than the serious demeaner I would have thought such a master might have. Hearing him live has further blurred the lined between composition and improvisation for me: The eye contact between group members seems to ignite a way of playing that is both yet neither, what some might call ESP playing.
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