Rarum 5: Selected Recordings (Dig)

Artist: Bill Frisell
Label: Ecm Records
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 044001419829
EAN: 0044001419829
ASIN: B0000646VD

Release Date: 2002-05-21

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Tracks:

Mandeville
Introduction
India
Singsong
In Line
Resistor
Music I Heard
Tone
Lonesome
Alien Prints (For D. Sharpe)
Hangdog
Kind Of Gentle
Closer
Sub Rosa

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Customer Reviews:

Good Overview of Frisell's ECM work.......2006-02-24

Let me start out by saying that I'm a HUGE Bill Frisell fan. I've got over 60 albums by this textural jazz master and all offer an insight into his versatility as a composer, arranger, and musician. On "Rarum: Selected Recordings" we get to hear what Bill was doing when he was recording as a session musician and as a leader of his own groups during the ECM years. If you can't afford to buy everything Bill has done (which I haven't even broke the surface of his work), then buying a compilation like this will give you an opportunity to hear his work on ECM through various albums spread out over period of time (in this case I think it goes from 1981-1996). Another thing unique about this compilation is that Bill hand-picked all of the songs himself rather than some knucklehead in the corporate office who thinks they know his music.

The music on this album is quite a variety. You get a glimpse of his unique style through songs by himself, Paul Bley, Paul Motian, Jan Garbarek, and Kenny Wheeler. There were two songs that I never heard of on this album and they were "Introduction" and "India." Both songs were featured on the Paul Motian Trio album "It Should've Happened A Long Time Ago," which I don't have yet. The song "India" was absolutely beautiful and for me was worth the price of the entire record.

If you are a newcomer to Bill Frisell's work on the ECM label, then my advice would be to start right here with this compliation. If you would like to investigate further than I highly recommend the following ECM albums:

Bill Frisell - In Line (1983)
Jan Garbarek - Paths, Prints (1982)
Bill Frisell - Lookout For Hope (1988)
Eberhard Weber - Fluid Rustle (1979 - Bill's debut on ECM)
Marc Johnson - Bass Desires (1985)
Marc Johnson's Bass Desires - Second Sight (1987)

Introduction.......2002-12-09

I must admit that I had never heard the music of Bill Frisell until I bought this compilation.For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Rarum series they are compilations of pieces recorded for the ECM label chosen by the artists themselves rather than someone from the marketing department. As the owner of a couple of the series I was impressed enough to try this one.( and I highly recommend them to anyone looking for a place to start with any of the featured artists).
My first reaction on listening to this disc was one of pleasant surprise,it is always a great feeling when you discover music of this quality,my second was annoyance that I had waited so long to hear it.
Bill Frisell has a very lyrical and individual style of playing that I for one find refreshing.His use of guitar synthesiseron a couple of the pieces is tasteful and in keeping with the sense of the tunes, unlike some other guiarists who seem to get carried away with the sound pallette available. "Introduction" and "India",both Paul Motian tunes,are powerful examples of Motian's ability as a composer and Frisell's as an interpreter and navigator of the tunes of others.
Frisell's own pieces on this disc show a clear development in style and confidence over time ,with some great arrangments to boot.You may not walk away from this disc whistling the tunes the first time you hear it, but the tunes will slowly reveal themselves to be gems.
The last piece on the disc was written by Gavin Bryars based on another of Frisell's tunes and is a fitting place to finish the disc leaving us ,of course , wanting more.

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