Blues Dream

by Bill Frisell

Blues Dream cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 January 2001
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:01:38
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An incredibly warm and sophisticated ensemble recording, 'Blues Dream' expands the guitarist's signature Americana-jazz fusion with a lush horn section. The album is a masterful balance of heavily composed, melodic folk structures and highly fluid, playful group improvisation.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Blues Dream (2:31)
  2. Ron Carter (6:45)
  3. Pretty Flowers Were Made for Blooming (3:20)
  4. Pretty Stars Were Made to Shine (1:38)
  5. Where Do We Go ? (5:19)
  6. Like Dreamers Do (Pt. One) (1:34)
  7. Like Dreamers Do (Pt. Two) (2:36)
  8. Outlaws (4:18)
  9. What Do We Do? (7:03)
  10. Episode (0:48)
  11. Soul Merchant (2:39)
  12. Greg Leisz (6:14)
  13. The Tractor (2:26)
  14. Fifty Years (1:30)
  15. Slow Dance (3:08)
  16. Things Will Never Be the Same (4:46)
  17. Dream On (3:04)
  18. Blues Dream (Reprise) (1:51)

Credits

  • Bill Frisell - primary artist, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, composed by [all compositions by], acoustic guitar electric guitar
  • Billy Drewes - alto saxophone
  • David Piltch - bass
  • Kenny Wollesen - drums, percussion, membranophone percussion
  • Greg Leisz - pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, resonator guitar [national steel guitar], resonator guitar [scheerhorn], mandolin, lap steel guitar pedal steel guitar resonator guitar
  • Curtis Fowlkes - trombone
  • Ron Miles - trumpet

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