Bill Frisell: Live Download Series #14-17

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DS#001-013 | DS#014-017In a previous All About Jazz article, the first thirteen installments of guitarist Bill Frisell's remarkable Live Download Series were reviewed. Beginning in 2009, Frisell and Songline/Tonefield Productions began making available high quality, download-only (but in formats including 320K MP3 and lossless FLAC) live performances dating as far back as 1989, when the guitarist was on the road to support his Elektra/Musician debut, Before We Were Born, released the same year. What has made this series so important is that, as is the case with so many artists, far more goes on than can ever be documented through normal commercial channels. Frisell, in fact, left Nonesuch Records for Savoy Jazz in 2010, after a very fruitful twenty-year run because, as good as the label had been to him (and his parting was, as ever with the amiable Frisell, absolutely amicable), it was unprepared to release more than one record per year, a rate which Frisell felt simply could not keep up with the increasing number of projects he had on the go...

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