East/West (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = East/West
Type = Live Album
Artist = Bill Frisell


Released = 2005
Recorded = December 9, 2003 and May 11, 2004
Genre = Avant-garde jazz
Downtown music
Length =
Label = Elektra Nonesuch
Producer = Lee Townsend
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jbfqxqysldde link]
Last album = Richter 858
(2005)
This album = East/West
(2005)
Next album = Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian
(2006)

"East/West" is the eighteenth album, first double CD and first live album, by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label. It was released in 2005 and features performances by Frisell, Viktor Krauss and Kenny Wollesen was recorded at Yoshi's in Oakland on December 9, 2003 (CD 1 - West) and Frisell with Tony Scherr and Kenny Wollesen recorded on May 11, 2004 at the Village Vanguard in New York City (CD2 - East). [ [http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/eastwest Nonesuch Records album info] accessed 12 September, 2008.] An additional second set of material from both the "East" and "West" venues was made available as a downloadable album "Further East/Further West". [ [http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/further-east-further-west-mp3s Nonesuch Records album info] accessed 12 September, 2008]

Track listing

*Disc One - West
# "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Strong, Whitfield) - 8:00
# "Blues for Los Angeles" - 11:09
# Shenandoah" (Traditional) - 12:05
# "Boubacar" - 6:22
# "Pipe Down" - 10:50
# "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (Dylan) - 11:49
*Disc Two - East
# "My Man's Gone Now" (Gershwin, Gershwin, Heyward) - 3:48
# "The Days of Wine and Roses" (Mancini, Mercer) - 9:20
# "You Can Run" (Frisell, Scherr, Wollesen) - 0:51
# "Ron Carter" - 13:59
# "Interlude" (Frisell, Scherr, Wollesen) - 1:39
# "Goodnight Irene" (Ledbetter, Lomax) - 8:57
# "The Vanguard" (Frisell, Scherr, Wollesen) - 4:44
# "People" (Merrill, Styne) - 4:29
# "Crazy" (Nelson) - 4:31
# "Tennessee Flat Top Box" (Cash) - 2:28

:"All compositions by Bill Frisell except as indicated"

Personnel

*Bill Frisell: guitars
*Kenny Wollesen: drums
*Viktor Krauss: bass
*Tony Scherr: bass

References