Re: AW: Monsters of Loop - Bill Frisell

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thanks for all the suggestions, everyone!!

rich


---- Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill <rs@moinlabs.de> wrote: 
> > Would anybody have any recommendations?  Should i look at current 
> > stuff or older stuff?
> 
> Yes, as others said, you should look at both current and older stuff.
> Although his ECM stuff is distinctively different (he seems to have been 
>the
> #1 sideman on ECM at that time for most of his work). A few albums that 
>come
> to mind which no one else has mentioned:
> 
> "Before we were born" - his "New York Downtown Scene" album "This Land" -
> the old trio (Driscoll, Baron) plus several horn players.
> "East West" - something more current, both trio live albums with a nice 
>mix
> of standards and originals.
> 
> If you were to further reduce my choice to but one album, it would be 
>"This
> Land"; to me, on that album he does things nobody else does.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
>       Rainer
>