Bill Frisell discography

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
Rambler1984ECM
Lookout for Hope1987ECM
Before We Were Born1989Nonesuch
Is That You?1990Nonesuch
Where in the World?1991Nonesuch
Have a Little Faith1992Nonesuch
This Land1994Nonesuch
Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton1995Nonesuch
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 8582005Songlines
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
Sign of Life: Music for 858 Quartet2011Savoy
All We Are Saying2011Savoy
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)[4]2016Okeh
Small Town (with Thomas Morgan)2016ECM
Music IS[5]2018Okeh
Epistrophy (with Thomas Morgan)2019ECM
Harmony[6]2019Blue Note
Valentine[7]2020Blue 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.[8]

TitleYear
#001 Live in Bochum, Germany - May 22, 2004 [9]2008
#002 Live in San Francisco, CA - March 16, 2007 [10]2009
#003 Live in San Francisco, CA - February 5, 2005 Set 2 [11]2009
#004 Live in New York, NY - May 1, 2004 Set 3 [12]2009
#005 Live in London, UK - November 15, 2005 [13]2009
#006 Live in Boulder, CO - November 5, 2003 [14]2009
#007 Live in Seattle, WA - February 21, 2006 [15]2009
#008 Live in New York, NY - September 26, 1996 Set 1 [16]2010
#009 Live in New York, NY - October 12, 1992 [17]2010
#010 Live in Oakland, CA - July 15, 1989 [18]2010
#011 Live in Budapest, Hungary - March 29, 2003 [19]2010
#012 Live in Seattle, WA - July 16, 2002 [20]2010
#013 Live in Tokyo, Japan - July 21, 2000 [21]2010
#014 Live in Chapel Hill, NC - March 22, 2009 [22]2011
#015 Live in Seattle, WA - August 6, 2011 Set 2 [23]2011
#016 Live in Florence, Italy - February 10, 1993 [24]2012
#017 Live in Portland, OR - February 25, 2012 [25]2012
#018 Live in Köln, Germany - March 27, 1995 [26]2013
#019 Live in Santa Monica, CA - January 10, 1998 Set 2 [27]2014
#020 Live in Austin, TX - March 08, 2015 [28]2015
#021 Live in California - April 11, 2010 - April 13, 2010 [29]2015
#022 Hurricane Harvey Relief (download series compilation) [30]2017

Compilations

  • Works (ECM, 1988)
  • A-Collection (WEA, 2000)
  • Rarum: Selected Recordings of Bill Frisell (ECM, 2002)
  • The Best of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1 - Folk Songs (Nonesuch, 2009)

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 the Gnostic Trio (with Carol Emmanuel, Kenny Wollesen)

With Naked City

On albums produced by Hal Willner

For musicians with whom Frisell recorded less than three albums see below.

With Gabriela

  • Detrás del sol (Intuition, 1997)
  • Viento rojo (Intuition, 1999)
  • El viaje (Intuition, 2006)

With Joey Baron

With Dale Bruning

  • Reunion (Jazz Link Enterprises, 2001)
  • Just Between Us (Jazz Link, 2012)
  • Thanks for the Memory... Jim Hall (Jazz Link, 2015)

With Don Byron

  • Tuskegee Experiments (Elektra/Musician, 1992)
  • Music for Six Musicians (Nonesuch, 1995)
  • Romance with the Unseen (Blue Note, 1999)

With Robin Holcomb

  • Todos Santos ... Play Robin Holcomb (Sound Aspects, 1988)
  • Robin Holcomb (Elektra/Musician, 1990)
  • Rockabye (Elektra/Musician, 1992)
  • The Big Time (Nonesuch, 2002)

With Wayne Horvitz

With Marc Johnson

With Ron Miles

With Bob Moses

  • When Elephants Dream of Music (Gramavision, 1983)
  • Visit with the Great Spirit (Gramavision, 1984)
  • The Story of Moses (Gramavision, 1987)

With Carrie Rodriguez

With others

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[42]

  • Bill Frisell: A Portrait directed by Emma Franz (2017)
In music documentary films
  • Icons Among Us on jazz today, directed by Lars Larson, Michael Rivoira and Peter J. Vogt (2009)
  • Weightless: A Recording Session with Jakob Bro featuring Jakob Bro, directed by Sune Blicher (2009)
  • In Good Time: The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland on Marian McPartland, directed by Huey (2011)
  • Every Other Summer on Wilco's 2013 Solid Sound music festival, directed by Christoph Green and Brendan Canty (2015)
  • Carmine Street Guitars directed by Ron Mann (2018)
On TV shows

References

  1. "Further East / Further West". billfrisell.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2018. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  2. "Further East / Further West". store.nonesuch.com. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  3. "Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian EP". billfrisell.com. Archived from the original on 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  4. "Alfie / I Love Lucy (limited 7 inch vinyl single)". billfrisell.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2018. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  5. "Music IS". billfrisell.com. Archived from the original on March 16, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
  6. "Harmony". billfrisell.com.
  7. "Valentine". billfrisell.com.
  8. "Live Download Series". billfrisell.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  9. "Live Download Series #001 - Bill Frisell Live in Bochum, Germany 05/22/04". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  10. "Live Download Series #002 - Bill Frisell Live in San Francisco, CA 03/16/07". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  11. "Live Download Series #003 - Bill Frisell Live in San Francisco, CA 02/05/05 Set 2". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  12. "Live Download Series #004 - Bill Frisell Live in New York, NY 05/01/04 Set 3". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  13. "Live Download Series #005 - Bill Frisell Live in London, UK 11/15/05". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  14. "Live Download Series #006 - Bill Frisell Live in Boulder, CO 11/05/03". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  15. "Live Download Series #007 - Bill Frisell Live in Seattle, WA 02/21/06". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  16. "Live Download Series #008 - Bill Frisell Live in New York, NY 09/26/96 Set 1". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  17. "Live Download Series #009 - Bill Frisell Live in New York, NY 10/12/92". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  18. "Live Download Series #010 - Bill Frisell Live in Oakland, CA 07/15/89". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  19. "Live Download Series #011 - Bill Frisell Live in Budapest, Hungary 03/29/03". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  20. "Live Download Series #012 - Bill Frisell Live in Seattle, WA 07/16/02". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  21. "Live Download Series #013 - Bill Frisell Live in Tokyo, Japan 07/21/00". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  22. "Live Download Series #014 - Bill Frisell Live in Chapel Hill, NC 03/22/09". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  23. "Live Download Series #015 - Bill Frisell Live in Seattle, WA 08/06/11 Set 2". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  24. "Live Download Series #016 - Bill Frisell Live in Florence, Italy 02/10/93". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  25. "Live Download Series #017 - Bill Frisell Live in Portland, OR 02/25/12". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  26. "Live Download Series #018 - Bill Frisell Live in Köln, Germany 03/27/95". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  27. "Live Download Series #019 - Bill Frisell Live in Santa Monica, CA 01/10/98 Set 2". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  28. "Live Download Series #020 - Bill Frisell Live in Austin, TX 03/08/15". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  29. "Live Download Series #021 - Bill Frisell Live in California 04/11/10 - 04/13/10". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  30. "Live Download Series #022 - Bill Frisell - Hurricane Harvey Relief". artist-stores.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  31. "Credits for La scuola". IMDb.
  32. Almost Heaven OST at Discogs
  33. Almost Heaven credits on IMDb
  34. All Hat OST on Songtone homepage
  35. "Credits for Portrait of a Man". IMDb.
  36. "The Great Flood - DVD". billfrisell.com. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  37. "The Great Flood". icarusfilms.com. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
  38. "Credits for Change in the Air". IMDb.
  39. The film's transcript with end credits on PBS homepage
  40. "Soundtrack credits for Frontline episode "Pop"". IMDb.
  41. "Credits for The Lobster and the Liver". IMDb.
  42. "Bill Frisell". IMDb.
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