"Disfarmer Theme," the opening track to Bill Frisell's Disfarmer, has been selected as Song of the Day by Jazz.com, rating a 96/100. "This opening track sets the stage for 25 more songs on a CD that is destined to be one of the defining moments in Frisell's career," says the site. "[He] may have found a sound palette from the past which also serves as a fresh beginning—an achievement all the more striking given this artist's own expansive personal legacy."
"Disfarmer Theme," the opening track to Disfarmer, Bill Frisell's latest Nonesuch release, has been selected as Song of the Day by Jazz.com, rating a 96/100. "Bill Frisell has composed a rich, deep soundtrack," says reviewer Ted Gioia of the album, "but without a movie to go along with it." Rather, the songs were inspired by the real-life character of Michael Disfarmer, the late American photographer who captured his rural, mid-century Arkansas neighbors through his haunting photographic portraiture.
"This opening track sets the stage for 25 more songs on a CD that is destined to be one of the defining moments in Frisell's career," writes Gioia. In delving into an earlier time and place, he suggests, the guitarist/composer, "may have found a sound palette from the past which also serves as a fresh beginning—an achievement all the more striking given this artist's own expansive personal legacy."
Read the full review at jazz.com.
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Frisell is set to join drummer Paul Motian (his collaborator on an eponymous 2006 Nonesuch trio album with bassist Ron Carter) and saxophonist Joe Lovano for a two-week stint at New York's Village Vanguard. For more tour information, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
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