![]() ![]() Thomas came and played everything just dead-on perfect. “Joey wanted to go over the music for an album before Ron Carter got there. “I first met Thomas well before that,” says Frisell. ![]() ![]() Sadly, Motian passed away in November of 2011 but the sessions for his last album, Windmills of Your Mind, brought Frisell and Morgan together in a quartet with vocalist Petra Haden for an incredible set of standards. For many years Frisell had a yearly engagement at the Vanguard with his wildly exploratory trio with saxophonist Joe Lovano and shape-shifting drummer Paul Motian. It’s a continuation of the duo’s previous album for the label, Small Town, and actually was recorded at the same week-long gig at jazz’s most hallowed of halls, the Village Vanguard, in March of 2016.Īlthough Morgan and Frisell are a generation apart, several common threads connect them. For guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan, that connection is deep and thankfully documented on their latest ECM album, Epistrophy, which is out on April 12th. All your thoughts and energy are focused on reacting to how another human is interpreting time, feel, and tone. Few musical situations are as intimate and rewarding as playing in a duo. ![]()
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