This Land (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = This Land
Type = Album
Artist = Bill Frisell


Released = 1994
Recorded = October, 1992
Genre = Avant-garde jazz
Downtown music
Length = 65:28
Label = Elektra Nonesuch
Producer = Lee Townsend
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifuxqthldke link]
Last album = Have a Little Faith
(1992)
This album = This Land
(1994)
Next album =
(1995)

"This Land" is the fifth album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label. It was released in 1991 and features performances by Frisell, Billy Drewes, Curtis Fowlkes, Kermit Driscoll and Joey Baron. [ [http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/this-land Nonesuch Records album info] accessed 12 September, 2008.]

Track listing

# "Is it Sweet?" - 5:05
# "Strange Meeting" - 6:18
# "Jimmy Carter" (Part 1) - 2:03
# "Jimmy Carter" (Part 2) - 5:22
# "This Land" - 3:15
# "Dog Eat Dog" - 4:17
# "Amarillo Barbados" - 4:13
# "Monica Jane" - 4:59
# "Resistor" - 6:56
# "Julius Hemphill" - 9:53
# "Unscientific Americans" - 0:46
# "Cartoon" - 6:22
# "Rag" - 4:18
# "Tag" (Frisell, Baron) - 1:45

:"All compositions by Bill Frisell except as indicated":*Recorded October 1992 at Mastersound Astoria, New York.

Personnel

*Bill Frisell: guitar
*Don Byron: clarinet and bass clarinet
*Billy Drewes: alto saxophone
*Curtis Fowlkes: trombone
*Kermit Driscoll: electric and acoustic basses
*Joey Baron: drums

References