The High Sign/One Week: Music For The Films Of Buster Keaton
The High Sign/One Week: Music For The Films Of Buster Keaton
ASIN: B000005J33
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With Frisell on acoustic and electric guitars, Kermit Driscoll on basses, and Joey Baron on percussion and drums, this disc offers a somewhat delirious blend of experimental jazz to accompany two Buster Keaton films, The High Sign and One Week. Frisell firmly believes that jazz is the best musical accompaniment to Keaton's brooding and often intellectual slapstick, but his compositions dare the listener to impose very modern sounds over comedies from an era associated more with quaint singsong ballads and playful ragtime. Many not initiated into jazz esoterica may find Frisell's militantly unmelodic improvisations anachronistic, distracting, and perhaps even too highbrow for Keaton's good-natured pop-culture spirit. The musicians may be having fun, but what about the potential movie audience? --Joseph Lanza
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ASIN: B000005J33 Release Date: 1995-02-28 |
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With Frisell on acoustic and electric guitars, Kermit Driscoll on basses, and Joey Baron on percussion and drums, this disc offers a somewhat delirious blend of experimental jazz to accompany two Buster Keaton films, The High Sign and One Week. Frisell firmly believes that jazz is the best musical accompaniment to Keaton's brooding and often intellectual slapstick, but his compositions dare the listener to impose very modern sounds over comedies from an era associated more with quaint singsong ballads and playful ragtime. Many not initiated into jazz esoterica may find Frisell's militantly unmelodic improvisations anachronistic, distracting, and perhaps even too highbrow for Keaton's good-natured pop-culture spirit. The musicians may be having fun, but what about the potential movie audience? --Joseph LanzaCustomer Reviews:
Inappropriate and cartoonish........2005-07-20
Short & sweet.......2002-09-21
They are very different. _Go West_ has a few skeletal themes--riffs, really--that are cycled through in order to match the peaks & troughs of the film's narrative. It's an album that is mostly carried by Frisell's extended soloing, sometimes bittersweet or comically lugubrious, sometimes fiercely discordant & rhapsodic. _High Sign/One Week_ is quite different, more gentle & subtle, with less focus on prolonged or hard-edged soloing, & with more focus on the acoustic guitar. I've seen Frisell perform _One Week_ in tandem with the film, & it works surprisingly well; as a standalone CD it also is quite effective.
It's a pity that the freewheeling energy of the Frisell/Driscoll/Baron trio was never caught in the studio: these two somewhat sepia-toned Keaton projects are the only studio recordings by the group, & to get a sample of their more varied & off-the-wall treatments of other material you need to turn to the Gramavision _Live_ disc or the handful of trio tracks on _Have a Little Faith_ (especially the bizarre, over-the-top cover of Madonna's "Live to Tell"). Still, this is a lovely, very playable disc which I've always listened to with pleasure.
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