Unspeakable (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Unspeakable
Type = Album
Artist = Bill Frisell


Released = 2004
Recorded =
Genre = Avant-garde jazz
Downtown music
Soul jazz
Length =
Label = Elektra Nonesuch
Producer = Hal Willner
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jifrxqlsldke link]
Last album = The Intercontinentals
(2003)
This album = Unspeakable
(2004)
Next album = Richter 858
(2005)

"Unspeakable" is the seventeenth album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label. It was released in 2004 and features performances by Frisell, Hal Willner, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, Don Alias, Steven Bernstein, Briggan Krauss, Curtis Fowlkes, Adam Dorn, Jenny Scheinman, Eyvind Kang, and Hank Roberts. It won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album in 2005. [ [http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/unspeakable Nonesuch Records album info] accessed 12, September, 2008]

Track listing

# "1968" - 4:35
# "White Fang" (Frisell, Willner) - 5:39
# "Sundust" (Willner) - 2:36
# "Del Close" (Frisell, Liljestrand, Willner) - 5:03
# "Gregory C." (Frisell, Willner) - 5:38
# "Stringbean" (Frisell, Liljestrand, Willner) - 5:57
# "Hymn for Ginsberg" - 2:24
# "Alias" (Frisell, Liljestrand, Willner) - 7:56
# "Who Was That Girl?" (Frisell 4:50
# "D. Sharpe" - 4:10
# "Fields of Alfalfa" (Frisell, Bernstein, Liljestrand, Walter, Willner) - 3:38
# "Tony" (Frisell, Scherr, Wollesen - 3:37
# "Old Sugar Bear" (Grant, Liljestrand, Willner) - 7:10
# "Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye" (Frisell, Lasry, Willner) - 8:58

:"All compositions by Bill Frisell except as indicated"

Personnel

*Bill Frisell: guitars
*Hal Willner: turntables, samples
*Tony Scherr: bass, guitar
*Kenny Wollesen: drums
*Don Alias: percussion
*Steven Bernstein: trumpet
*Briggan Krauss: baritone sax
*Curtis Fowlkes: trombone
*Adam Dorn: synth
*Jenny Scheinman: violin
*Eyvind Kang: viola
*Hank Roberts: cello

References