Is That You?
1990 studio album by Bill Frisell
Is That You? | ||||
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Studio album by Bill Frisell | ||||
Released | 1990 | |||
Recorded | August 1989 | |||
Studio | Ironwood Studios, Seattle | |||
Genre | Downtown music | |||
Length | 49:33 | |||
Label | Elektra Nonesuch | |||
Producer | Wayne Horvitz | |||
Bill Frisell chronology | ||||
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Is That You? is the second album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label.[1] It was released in 1990 and features performances by Frisell, keyboardist Wayne Horvitz and drummer Joey Baron, who were all members of Naked City at this time.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 3 stars, stating, "Is That You? finds the guitarist already trending away from that band's scattershot assault and toward the more pastoral leanings he would embrace in the upcoming decade".[2]
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Track listing
All compositions by Bill Frisell except as indicated.
- "No Man's Land" - 6:40
- "Someone in My Backyard" - 2:45
- "Rag" - 4:00
- "Is That You?" - 6:50
- "The Way Home" - 6:00
- "Twenty Years" - 2:43
- "Chain of Fools" (Covay) - 3:30
- "Hello Nellie" - 4:07
- "The Days of Wine and Roses" (Mancini, Mercer) - 3:35
- "Yuba City" (Horvitz)- 5:42
- "Half a Million" - 4:00
- "Hope and Fear" - 1:06
Personnel
- Bill Frisell: electric and acoustic guitars, bass, banjo, ukulele, clarinet
- Wayne Horvitz: keyboards, drum programming, momentary bass
- Joey Baron: drums
- Dave Hofstra: tuba on 4 & 8, bass on 7
References
- ^ Nonesuch Records album info accessed 12 September 2008.
- ^ a b Olewnick, B. Allmusic Review accessed June 13, 2011
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 513. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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- Rambler (1984)
- Lookout for Hope (1987)
- Before We Were Born (1989)
- Is That You? (1990)
- Where in the World? (1991)
- Have a Little Faith (1992)
- This Land (1994)
- Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton (1995)
- The High Sign/One Week (1995)
- Quartet (1996)
- Nashville (1997)
- Gone, Just Like a Train (1998)
- Good Dog, Happy Man (1999)
- The Sweetest Punch (1999)
- Ghost Town (2000)
- Blues Dream (2001)
- With Dave Holland and Elvin Jones (2001)
- The Willies (2002)
- The Intercontinentals (2003)
- Unspeakable (2004)
- Richter 858 (2005)
- Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian (2006)
- History, Mystery (2008)
- Disfarmer (2009)
- Beautiful Dreamers (2010)
- Sign of Life: Music for 858 Quartet (2011)
- All We Are Saying (2011)
- Silent Comedy (2013)
- Big Sur (2013)
- Guitar in the Space Age! (2014)
- When You Wish Upon a Star (2016)
- Music IS (2018)
- Harmony (2019)
- Valentine (2020)
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- More News for Lulu [with John Zorn and George Lewis] (1992)
- Deep Dead Blue [with Elvis Costello] (1995)
- Floratone [with Matt Chamberlain, Tucker Martine and Lee Townsend] (2007)
- Lágrimas Mexicanas [with Vinicius Cantuária] (2010)
- Floratone II [with Matt Chamberlain, Tucker Martine and Lee Townsend] (2012)
- Live (1995)
- East/West (2005)
- Small Town [with Thomas Morgan] (2017)