Bill Frisell discography explained

This discography features albums released by guitarist Bill Frisell, released recordings of bands and projects he was/is a member of, and albums on which he appears as guest musician. Labels and dates indicate first release.

Albums

Albums

TitleYearLabel
In Line1983ECM
Rambler1985ECM
Lookout for Hope1988ECM
Before We Were Born1989Nonesuch
Is That You?1990Nonesuch
Where in the World?1991Nonesuch
Have a Little Faith1992Nonesuch
This Land1994Nonesuch
1995Nonesuch
The High Sign/One Week: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton1995Nonesuch
Live1995Gramavision
Quartet1996Nonesuch
Nashville1997Nonesuch
Gone, Just Like a Train1998Nonesuch
Good Dog, Happy Man1999Nonesuch
The Sweetest Punch1999Decca
Ghost Town2000Nonesuch
Blues Dream2001Nonesuch
With Dave Holland and Elvin Jones2001Nonesuch
The Willies2002Nonesuch
The Intercontinentals2003Nonesuch
Unspeakable2004Nonesuch
Richter 858 2005Songlines
East/West2005Nonesuch
Further East / Further West (only available as a digital download)[1] [2] 2005Nonesuch
Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian2006Nonesuch
Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian EP (only available as a digital download)[3] 2006Nonesuch
History, Mystery2008Nonesuch
Disfarmer2009Nonesuch
Beautiful Dreamers2010Savoy
2011Savoy
All We Are Saying2011Savoy
Hunter S. Thompson – The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved 2012 429/Paris[4]
Silent Comedy2013Tzadik
Big Sur2013OKeh
Guitar in the Space Age!2014OKeh
When You Wish Upon a Star2016OKeh
Alfie / I Love Lucy (limited 7 inch vinyl single)[5] 2016OKeh
Small Town (with Thomas Morgan) 2016ECM
Music IS[6] 2018OKeh
Epistrophy (with Thomas Morgan) 2019ECM
Harmony[7] 2019Blue Note
Valentine[8] 2020Blue Note
Four[9] 2022Blue Note
Orchestras[10] 2024Blue Note

Live Download Series

The series is produced as a subsidiary label of Lee Townsend's Songline/Tone Field, and distributed online as lossless FLAC, MP3 and AAC files with printable cover art.[11]

TitleYear
  1. 001 Live in Bochum, Germany - May 22, 2004[12]
2008
  1. 002 Live in San Francisco, CA - March 16, 2007[13]
2009
  1. 003 Live in San Francisco, CA - February 5, 2005, Set 2[14]
2009
  1. 004 Live in New York, NY - May 1, 2004, Set 3[15]
2009
  1. 005 Live in London, UK - November 15, 2005[16]
2009
  1. 006 Live in Boulder, CO - November 5, 2003[17]
2009
  1. 007 Live in Seattle, WA - February 21, 2006[18]
2009
  1. 008 Live in New York, NY - September 26, 1996, Set 1[19]
2010
  1. 009 Live in New York, NY - October 12, 1992[20]
2010
  1. 010 Live in Oakland, CA - July 15, 1989[21]
2010
  1. 011 Live in Budapest, Hungary - March 29, 2003[22]
2010
  1. 012 Live in Seattle, WA - July 16, 2002[23]
2010
  1. 013 Live in Tokyo, Japan - July 21, 2000[24]
2010
  1. 014 Live in Chapel Hill, NC - March 22, 2009[25]
2011
  1. 015 Live in Seattle, WA - August 6, 2011, Set 2[26]
2011
  1. 016 Live in Florence, Italy - February 10, 1993[27]
2012
  1. 017 Live in Portland, OR - February 25, 2012[28]
2012
  1. 018 Live in Köln, Germany - March 27, 1995[29]
2013
  1. 019 Live in Santa Monica, CA - January 10, 1998, Set 2[30]
2014
  1. 020 Live in Austin, TX - March 8, 2015[31]
2015
  1. 021 Live in California - April 11, 2010 - April 13, 2010[32]
2015
  1. 022 Hurricane Harvey Relief (download series compilation)[33]
2017

Compilations

Collaborations

With Paul Motian and Joe Lovano

All albums with Paul Motian are with saxophonist Joe Lovano, except as noted.

With John Zorn

Albums mostly written and produced by Zorn, in part with Zorn playing alto saxophone (or other instruments), sometimes conducting the ensemble.

With Naked City

With the Gnostic Trio (with Carol Emmanuel, Kenny Wollesen)

With Julian Lage & Gyan Riley

Albums featured

Leading artist and/or bandAlbumYearLabelNotes
Good Buddies 1978 EMI Belgium
Fluid Rustle 1979
Okno 1981
Various Amarcord Nino Rota

Interpretations of Nino Rota's Music from the Films of Federico Fellini

1981 Hal Willner production
A Molde Concert 1982 ECM
Paths, Prints 1982 ECM
Blue Jay Sessions 1982 Headfirst
Eberhard Weber Later That Evening 1982 ECM
Jan Garbarek Wayfarer 1983 ECM
When Elephants Dream of Music 1983
Comin' and Goin' 1983 Europa
Bob Moses Visit with the Great Spirit 1984 Gramavision
Fresh Heat: Live at Sweet Basil 1985 Birth
Oshumare 1985 Gramavision
Transparency 1985
Clairvoyant 1985
Fragments 1986 ECM
Bass Desires 1986 ECM
Lyle Mays 1986
Stefan F. Winter The Little Trumpet 1986
Fulton Street Maul 1987
Paul Bley The Paul Bley Quartet 1987 ECM
Strange Weather 1987 Hal Willner production
The President 1987 Dossier
Marc Johnson's Bass Desires Second Sight 1987 ECM
Bob Moses The Story of Moses 1987 Gramavision
Black Pastels 1987 JMT
Out of This Dream: A Third Side 1987 Megadisc Hal Willner production
Billy Hart Rah 1988 Gramavision
Julius Hemphill Big Band 1988
Todos Santos ... Play Robin Holcomb 1988 Sound Aspects one half of the album with duos by Frisell and Doug Wieselman
Lyle Mays Street Dreams 1988 Geffen
Claude's Late Morning 1988 Gramavision
Various 1988 Hal Willner production
Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves 1989 Island Hal Willner production
The Lion for Real 1989 Hal Willner production
Estrangeiro 1989
Robin Holcomb Robin Holcomb 1990 Elektra/Musician
After the Requiem 1991 ECM New Series
Big Music 1991 Venture
Heartbeat 1991
Another Hand 1991 Elektra/Musician Hal Willner production
Tuskegee Experiments 1992 Elektra/Musician
Rinde Ekert Finding My Way Home 1992
Robin Holcomb Rockabye 1992 Elektra/Musician
Wayne Horvitz Miracle Mile 1992
Grace Under Pressure 1992
Various Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus 1992 Hal Willner production featuring Elvis Costello and the instruments designed and built by Harry Partch
Brian AlesNaiveté1993Intuitionon "Personal Montuno" and "This Dream"
A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing 1993
Going Back Home 1994
Fascination 1994 CMP
Naked Lunch 1995 Warner Hal Willner production
Don Byron Music for Six Musicians 1995
Michael Shrieve Two Doors 1995 CMP
O Corpo Sutil / The Subtle Body 1996
Ginger Baker Falling Off the Roof 1997 WEA
Down Home 1997 Intuition
Gabriela Detrás del sol 1997 Intuition
Woman's Day 1997 Gramavision
Time Again 1997 Rhombus
Angel Song 1997 ECM
Marc Johnson The Sound of Summer Running 1998
Ten Bulls 1998 Sampson
Don Byron Romance with the Unseen 1999 Blue Note
Tucuma 1999
Orfeu 1999 Blue Note
Gabriela Viento rojo 1999 Intuition
Play 1999 WEA
Dead Bees on a Cake 1999 Virgin two tracks with Frisell, another two outtakes on 2000 compilation Everything and Nothing
Joey Baron We'll Soon Find Out 2000 Intuition
The Story of Iceland 2000
The Story of Iceland 2000
Electric Rosary 2000 Liquid City on four tracks
Various Finding Forrester

Music from the Motion Picture

2000 Hal Willner production
Various 2000 Hal Willner production
Dale Bruning Reunion 2001 Jazz Link
Vinicius Cantuaria Vinicius 2001 Transparent
Come Away With Me 2002 Blue Note on "The Long Day is Over"
Robin Holcomb The Big Time 2002 Nonesuch
Wayne Horvitz Film Music 1998–2001 2002 Tzadik
Ron Miles Heaven 2002 Sterling Circle
Covered 2002 Infrasound Collective
Dirt on the Angel 2003 Terminus
The Evening of My Best Day 2003
Troubled by the Fire 2003
Strange Liberation 2004
Far from Enough 2004 Nonesuch
Mount Analog New Skin 2004 Filmguerro
Mylab Mylab 2004 Terminus collaboration by Tucker Martine and Wayne Horvitz
Out of Airplanes 2005 BeenKnee
Ghetto Bells 2005
Haunted Heart 2005
Heather Greene Five Dollar Dress 2005 BHM
Atmospheric Conditions Permitting (Radio Recordings 1967–1993) 2005 ECM Compilation with one long track featuring Frisell
12 Songs 2005
It's Mostly Residual 2005 Intoxicate
Here Come the Choppers 2005 Sovereign
Dreaming Wide Awake 2005
Various Fusion for Miles: A Guitar Tribute 2005 Tone Center on "Nefertiti"
Gabriela El viaje 2006 Intuition
Seven Angels on a Bicycle 2006
Jonah Smith 2006 Relix
Da questa parte del mare 2006
Various 2006 Hal Willner production
Surprise 2006 Warner on "Everything About It Is a Love Song"
Civilians 2007 Anti–
Viktor Krauss II 2007
Donald Rubinstein Knightriders 2007
John Scofield This Meets That 2007
West 2007
The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull 2008
Balladeering 2009 Loveland
Richard Hell & The Voidoids Destiny Street Repaired 2009
Sam Shrieve Bittersweet Lullabies 2009 Colorburst Soundfield on Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and another track
Empire 2010 CAM Jazz
Reveille 2010 Nineteen-Eight
Cry, Want 2010 with Evan Parker a.o.
Buddy Miller's Majestic Silver Strings 2010 New West with Marc Ribot and Greg Leisz
Carrie Rodriguez Love and Circumstance 2010
Jakob Bro Time 2011 Loveland
Hank Roberts Everything Is Alive 2011
Dale Bruning Just Between Us 2012 Jazz Link
All Fall Down 2012 Nonesuch
Ron Miles Quiver 2012 Enja/Yellowbird
Slipstream 2012 Redwing
Blackdird Bye Bye 2012
Joey Baron Just Listen 2013
Jakob Bro December Song 2013 Loveland
Lily-O 2014 Nonesuch
Joy in Spite of Everything 2014 ECM feat. Mark Turner
Ron Miles Circuit Rider 2014 Enja/Yellowbird Trio with Brian Blade
Greg CohenGolden State2014Relative Pitch
Jenny ScheinmanThe Littlest Prisoner2014Song
Lucinda Williams Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone 2014 Highway 20
Dale Bruning Thanks for the Memory... Jim Hall 2015 Jazz Link
William S. Burroughs Let Me Hang You 2016 Khannibalism Hal Willner production
Duopoly 2016 Pyroclastic (tracks 1,16)
The Declaration of Musical Independence 2016 ECM
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels I Long to See You 2016 Blue Note
Carrie Rodriguez Lola 2016 Luz
American Tunes 2016 Nonesuch
Jerry Granelli Dance Hall 2017
The Brill Building, Book Two 2017 Tzadik
Ron Miles I Am a Man 2017 Enja/Yellowbird
Cuong Vu 4-TetBallet (The Music of Michael Gibbs)2017RareNoiseRecords
Andrew Cyrille Lebroba 2018 ECM Trio with Wadada Leo Smith
The Maid with the Flaxen Hair 2018 Tzadik
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams Vanished Gardens 2018 Blue Note
Cuong Vu 4-TetChange In The Air2018RareNoiseRecords
Paul Simon In the Blue Light 2018 Legacy
Sarah Siskind Modern Appalachia 2020 Red Request on "Modern Appalachia" and "Porchlight"
Andrew Cyrille The News 2021 ECM
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels Tone Poem[35] 2021 Blue Note
Trios: Chapel[36] 2022 Blue Note
Noël Akchoté Loving Highsmith 2022 Ayler
Ches SmithInterpret It Well2022Pyroclastic
Julian Lage View with a Room 2022 Blue Note
Julian Lage The Layers 2023 Blue Note
Ambrose AkinmusireOwl Song2023Blue Note
Donald RubinsteinGeorge A. Romero's Knightriders 2023Scare Flair(track 1, Black Bird)
Chantal Acda/The Atlantic DriftersSilently Held[37] 2024Challenge Classics

Film soundtracks

Beside his music for Buster Keaton's silent films Go West, The High Sign and One Week (see album section above), his collaborations with producer Hal Willner (cf. section above), and with John Zorn on his music for films (cf. section above), Frisell provided also original soundtracks for the following films

His music was also exclusively used in

Personal appearances in music documentary films and TV shows

Appearances as himself as musician and/or pundit[48]

In music documentary films
On TV shows

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Further East / Further West. Billfrisell.com. September 19, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180920050005/http://billfrisell.com/discography/further-east-futher-west. September 20, 2018. dead.
  2. Web site: Further East / Further West. Store.nonesuch.com. September 19, 2018.
  3. Web site: Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian EP. Billfrisell.com. September 19, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180920045944/http://billfrisell.com/discography/bill-frisell-ron-carter-paul-motian-ep. September 20, 2018. dead.
  4. Hal Willner production on Hunter S. Thompson, composed and conducted by Frisell, . The album was reissued as LP in 2022 on Shimmy Disc.
  5. Web site: Alfie / I Love Lucy (limited 7 inch vinyl single). Billfrisell.com. September 19, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180920045815/http://billfrisell.com/discography/when-you-wish-upon-star. September 20, 2018. dead.
  6. Web site: Music IS. Billfrisell.com. March 15, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180316152043/http://billfrisell.com/discography/music. March 16, 2018. dead.
  7. Web site: Harmony. Billfrisell.com.
  8. Web site: Valentine. Billfrisell.com.
  9. Web site: Bill Frisell - Four | Releases . Discogs.com.
  10. Web site: Orchestras - Bill Frisell | Album. AllMusic.
  11. Web site: Live Download Series. Billfrisell.com. September 20, 2018.
  12. Web site: Live Download Series #001 - Bill Frisell Live in Bochum, Germany 05/22/04. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  13. Web site: Live Download Series #002 - Bill Frisell Live in San Francisco, CA 03/16/07. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  14. Web site: Live Download Series #003 - Bill Frisell Live in San Francisco, CA 02/05/05 Set 2. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  15. Web site: Live Download Series #004 - Bill Frisell Live in New York, NY 05/01/04 Set 3. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  16. Web site: Live Download Series #005 - Bill Frisell Live in London, UK 11/15/05. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  17. Web site: Live Download Series #006 - Bill Frisell Live in Boulder, CO 11/05/03. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  18. Web site: Live Download Series #007 - Bill Frisell Live in Seattle, WA 02/21/06. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  19. Web site: Live Download Series #008 - Bill Frisell Live in New York, NY 09/26/96 Set 1. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  20. Web site: Live Download Series #009 - Bill Frisell Live in New York, NY 10/12/92. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  21. Web site: Live Download Series #010 - Bill Frisell Live in Oakland, CA 07/15/89. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  22. Web site: Live Download Series #011 - Bill Frisell Live in Budapest, Hungary 03/29/03. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  23. Web site: Live Download Series #012 - Bill Frisell Live in Seattle, WA 07/16/02. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  24. Web site: Live Download Series #013 - Bill Frisell Live in Tokyo, Japan 07/21/00. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  25. Web site: Live Download Series #014 - Bill Frisell Live in Chapel Hill, NC 03/22/09. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  26. Web site: Live Download Series #015 - Bill Frisell Live in Seattle, WA 08/06/11 Set 2. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  27. Web site: Live Download Series #016 - Bill Frisell Live in Florence, Italy 02/10/93. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  28. Web site: Live Download Series #017 - Bill Frisell Live in Portland, OR 02/25/12. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  29. Web site: Live Download Series #018 - Bill Frisell Live in Köln, Germany 03/27/95. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  30. Web site: Live Download Series #019 - Bill Frisell Live in Santa Monica, CA 01/10/98 Set 2. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  31. Web site: Live Download Series #020 - Bill Frisell Live in Austin, TX 03/08/15. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  32. Web site: Live Download Series #021 - Bill Frisell Live in California 04/11/10 - 04/13/10. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  33. Web site: Live Download Series #022 - Bill Frisell - Hurricane Harvey Relief. Artist-stores.com. September 20, 2018.
  34. Web site: Door. Discogs.com.
  35. Web site: Charles Lloyd & The Marvels - Tone Poem | Releases . Discogs.com.
  36. Web site: Charles Lloyd - Trios: Chapel | Releases . Discogs.com.
  37. Web site: Jazz news: Silently Held—The New Album From Chantal Acda & The Atlantic Drifters. All About. Jazz. April 7, 2024. Allaboutjazz.com.
  38. Web site: Credits for La scuola. IMDb.com.
  39. Web site: Almost Heaven (2005). IMDb.com.
  40. Web site: Bill Frisell - All Hat. Songtone.com. July 2, 2019.
  41. Web site: Credits for Portrait of a Man. IMDb.com.
  42. Web site: The Great Flood - DVD. Billfrisell.com. September 19, 2018.
  43. Web site: The Great Flood. Icarusfilms.com. September 19, 2018.
  44. Web site: Credits for Change in the Air. IMDb.com.
  45. Web site: Transcript | Pop | FRONTLINE | PBS. Pbs.org.
  46. Web site: Soundtrack credits for Frontline episode "Pop". IMDb.com.
  47. Web site: Credits for The Lobster and the Liver. IMDb.com.
  48. Web site: Bill Frisell. IMDb.com.
  49. Web site: Credits for Music for Black Pigeons. IMDb.com.

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