Bill Frisell / discography

This discography is an overview of the musical works of the guitarist Bill Frisell , the bands of which he was / is a member and publications to which he made a significant contribution.

Albums under your own name

Studio and live albums

1983: In Line ( ECM )
1984: Rambler (ECM)
1987: Lookout for Hope (ECM)
1989: Before We Were Born ( Nonesuch )
1990: Is That You? (Nonesuch)
1991: Where in the World? (Nonesuch)
1992: Have a Little Faith (Nonesuch) - with Joey Baron , Don Byron , Kermit Driscoll , Guy Klucevsek .
1994: This Land (Nonesuch) - with Joey Baron, Don Byron, Billy Drewes , Kermit Driscoll, Curtis Fowlkes .
1995: Go West : Music for the Films of Buster Keaton (Nonesuch) - with Joey Baron, Kermit Driscoll.
1995: The High Sign / One Week : Music for the Films of Buster Keaton (Nonesuch) - with Joey Baron, Kermit Driscoll.
1995: Live ( Gramavision )
1996: Quartet (Nonesuch) - Annual Prize of the German Record Critics' Prize
1997: Nashville (Nonesuch) - with Pat Bergeson, Ron Block, Jerry Douglas , Robin Holcomb , Viktor Krauss, Adam Steffey.
1998: Gone, Just Like a Train (Nonesuch) - with Jim Keltner , Viktor Krauss.
1999: The Sweetest Punch: The New Songs of Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach , Arranged by Bill Frisell ( Decca ) with Costello and Cassandra Wilson
1999: Good Dog, Happy Man (Nonesuch) - with Ry Cooder (only No. 5: Shenandoah ) , Wayne Horwitz, Viktor Krauss, Jim Keltner, Greg Leisz.
2000: Ghost Town (Nonesuch) - solo.
2001: Blues Dream (Nonesuch) - with Billy Drewes, Curtis Fowlkes, Greg Leisz, Ron Miles , David Piltch, Kenny Wollesen.
2001: With Dave Holland and Elvin Jones (Nonesuch).
2002: The Willies (Nonesuch) - with Danny Barnes, Keith Lowe.
2003: The Intercontinentals (Nonesuch) - with Sidiki Camara, Vinicius Cantuaria, Christos Govetas, Greg Leisz, Jenny Scheinman .
2004: Unspeakable (Nonesuch) - with Don Alias , Steven Bernstein , Briggan Krauss , Tony Scherr u. a.
2005: Richter 858 (Songlines)
2005: East / West (Nonesuch)
2005: Further East / Further West (Nonesuch)
2006: Bill Frisell, Ron Carter , Paul Motian (Nonesuch)
2008: History, Mystery (Nonesuch)
2009: Disfarmer (Nonesuch)
2009: All Hat (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (EmArcy)
2010: Beautiful Dreamers ( Savoy )
2011: Sign of Life: Music for 858 Quartet (Savoy)
2011: All We Are Saying: Frisell Plays Lennon (Savoy)
2013: Silent Comedy (Tzadik)
2013: Big Sur (Okeh)
2014: Guitar in the Space Age! (Okeh)
2016: When You Wish Upon a Star (Okeh)
2018: Music IS (Okeh)
2019: Harmony (Blue Note)
2020: Valentine (Blue Note)

Compilations

1990: Works (ECM)
2000: A-Collection ( WEA )
2002: Rarum V: Selected Recordings of Bill Frisell (ECM)
2009: The Best of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1 - Folk Songs (Nonesuch)

Live Download Series

# 001: Recorded Live in Bochum, Germany 05/22/04 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2009), with Ron Miles , Jenny Scheinman , Viktor Krauss , Matt Chamberlain
# 002: Recorded Live in San Francisco, CA 03/16/07 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2009) solo
# 003: Recorded Live in San Francisco, CA 05/02/05 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2009), with Eyvind Kang , Hank Roberts , Jenny Scheinman
# 004: Recorded Live in New York, NY 01/05/04 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2009), with Sam Yahel , Brian Blade
# 005: Recorded Live in London, UK 11/15/05 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2009), with Jenny Scheinman and Greg Liesz
# 006: Recorded Live in Boulder, CO 11/05/03 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2009), with Vinicius Cantuária , Christos Govetas , Greg Liesz, Jenny Scheinman
# 007: Recorded Live in Seattle, WA 02/21/06 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2009), with Tony Scherr , Kenny Wollesen, Hank Roberts, Jenny Scheinman, Eyvind Kang
# 008: Recorded Live in New York, NY 09/26/96 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2010), with Eyvind Kang, Curtis Fowlkes , Don Byron and Ron Miles
# 009: Recorded Live in New York, NY 10/12/92 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2010), with Curtis Fowlkes, Don Byron, Billy Drewes , Kermit Driscoll , Joey Baron
# 010: Recorded Live in Oakland, CA 0715/89 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2010), with Hank Roberts, Kermit Driscoll, Joey Baron
# 011: Recorded Live in Budapest, Hungary 03/29/03 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2010), with Greg Liesz, Kenny Wollesen and David Piltch
# 012: Recorded Live in Seattle, WA 07/16/02 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2010), with Jenny Scheinman and Ron Miles
# 013: Recorded Live in Tokyo, Japan 07/21/00 (Songline / Tonefield Productions, 2010), with Tony Scherr and Kenny Wollesen

Collaborations

1984 with Tim Berne : Theoretically (Empire)
1985 with Vernon Reid : Smash & Scatteration (Ryko)
1987 with Power Tools, trio with Melvin Gibbs and Ronald Shannon Jackson : Strange Meeting (Antilles)
1989 with PowerTools - Live at the Knitting Factory 1989 (ed. 2020)
1994 with Gary Peacock : Just So Happens (Postcards)
1995 with Victor Bruce Godsey and Brian Ales: American Blood / Safety in Numbers (Intuition)
1995 with Elvis Costello : Deep Dead Blue (Nonesuch)
1997 with Michael White : Motion Pictures (Intuition)
1998 with Fred Hersch : Songs We Know (Nonesuch)
2001 with Dale Bruning: Reunion (Jazz Link Enterprises)
2003 with Petra Haden: Petra Haden and Bill Frisell (True North)
2006 with Jack DeJohnette : The Elephant Sleeps but Still Remembers (Golden Beams)
2008 with Jim Hall : Hemispheres ( ArtistShare )
2009 with Jakob Bro : Balladeering (Loveland)
2011 with Vinicius Cantuária: Lágrimas Mexicanas (Naive)
2012 with Lee Konitz , Gary Peacock and Joey Baron : Enfants Terribles: Live at the Blue Note (Half Note)
2017 with Thomas Morgan : Small Town (ECM)
2019 with Thomas Morgan: Epistrophy (ECM)

With Paul Motian and Joe Lovano

1982: Paul Motian Band - Psalm (ECM) with Ed Schuller and Billy Drewes
1984: Paul Motian - The Story of Maryam ( Soul Note ) with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper
1985: Paul Motian Quintet - Jack of Clubs (Soul Note) with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper
1985: Paul Motian Trio - It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago (ECM)
1987: Paul Motian Quintet - Misterioso (Soul Note) with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper
1988: Paul Motian - Monk in Motian ( JMT ) with Geri Allen and Dewey Redman
1989: Paul Motian - On Broadway Volume 1 (JMT) with Charlie Haden
1989: Paul Motian Trio - One Time Out (Soul Note)
1989: Joe Lovano Wind Ensemble - Worlds ( Label Bleu )
1990: Paul Motian - Bill Evans (JMT) with Marc Johnson
1990: Paul Motian - On Broadway Volume 2 (JMT) with Charlie Haden
1992: Paul Motian - On Broadway Volume 3 (JMT) with Lee Konitz and Charlie Haden
1992: Paul Motian - Motian in Tokyo (JMT)
1994: Paul Motian Trio - Trioism (JMT)
1995: Paul Motian Trio - At the Village Vanguard (JMT)
1997: Paul Motian Trio - Sound of Love ( Winter & Winter )
2005: Paul Motian Trio - I Have the Room Above Her (ECM)
2007: Paul Motian Trio - Time and Time Again (ECM)
2011: Paul Motian - The Windmills of Your Mind (Winter & Winter) with Thomas Morgan and Petra Haden (without Lovano)

With John Zorn

1986: The Big Gundown (Elektra / Nonesuch)
1986: Godard on the French sampler Godard ça vous chante? (Nato, re-released on Tzadik - Compilation Godard / Spillane 1999)
1987: Cobra ( HatHut )
1987: Spillane ( Elektra / Nonesuch; title track re-released on Tzadik 1999)
1988: News for Lulu (HatHut)
1989: Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysteria Hour ( CBS / Sony (Japan))
1990: More News for Lulu (HatHut)
1992: Filmworks 1986-1990 (Elektra / Nonesuch)
1996: Filmworks III: 1990-1995 (Toys Factory)
1997: New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands (Tzadik)
2003: Masada Guitars (Tzadik)

With Naked City

1989: Naked City (Elektra / Nonesuch)
1990: Torture Garden (Shimmy Disc; re-released as Black Box on Tzadik in 1996 )
1992: Grand Guignol (Avant)
1992: Leng Tch'e (Toys Factory; re-released as Black Box on Tzadik in 1996 )
1992: Heretic (Avant2)
1993: Radio (Avant)
1993: Absinthe (Avant)
2002: Naked City Live, Vol. 1: The Knitting Factory 1989 (Tzadik)
2005: Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings (Tzadik)

On albums produced by Hal Willner

1981: Amarcord Nino Rota (Hannibal) only "Juliet of the Spirits" solo
1987: Mathilde Santing - Out of This Dream: A Third Side (Megadisc)
1987: Marianne Faithfull - Strange Weather ( Iceland )
1988: Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films ( A&M )
1989: Gavin Friday and the Man Seezer - Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves (Iceland)
1989: Allen Ginsberg - Lion for Real (Great Jones / Antilles)
1991: David Sanborn - Another Hand (Elektra / Musician) pieces with Frisell produced by Willner
1992: Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus (Columbia)
2000: The Million Dollar Hotel: Music from the Motion Picture (Interscope)
2000: Finding Forrester : Music from the Motion Picture (Columbia Legacy)
2002: Jeff Buckley & Gary Lucas - Songs to No One 1991-1992 (Knitting Factory) Frisell in one piece
2006: Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys (Anti)

As a band member or guest musician on the following releases

Ginger Baker Trio

( Baker , Frisell, Charlie Haden )

1994: Going Back Home (WEA).
1996: Falling Off the Roof (WEA).

Joey Baron

(Baron, Arthur Blythe , Ron Carter , Frisell)

1997: Down Home (intuition).
2000: We'll Soon Find Out (Intuition).

Floratone

( Matt Chamberlain , Frisell, Tucker Martine, Lee Townsend)

2007: Floratone (Blue Note) - with Viktor Krauss, Ron Miles, Eyvind Kang.
2012: Floratone II (Savoy) - with Mike Elizondo, Jon Brion, Ron Miles, Eyvind Kang.

Viktor Krauss

2004: Far from Enough (Nonesuch) - with Jerry Douglas , Frisell, Steve Jordan, Alison Krauss .
2007: II (Narada) - with Matt Chamberlain , Frisell (only No. 6: (I Could Have Been Your) Best Friend and No. 9: Dudeman ) , Dean Parks a. a.

Others

1978: Michel Herr , Bill Frisell, Vinton Johnson , Kermit Driscoll - Good Buddies ( EMI Belgium)
1979: Eberhard Weber - Fluid Rustle (ECM)
1981: Emil Viklický , Bill Frisell, Kermit Driscoll, Vinton Johnson - Okno ( Supraphon , 1997 re-released on Bonton as Okno & Dveře / Door & Window )
1982: Arild Andersen - A Molde Concert (ECM)
1982: Jan Garbarek - Paths, Prints (ECM)
1982: Eberhard Weber - Later That Evening (ECM)
1982: Mike Metheny - Blue Jay Sessions (Headfirst)
1983: Bob Moses - When Elephants Dream of Music (Gramavision)
1983: Jan Garbarek - Wayfarer (ECM)
1984: Bob Moses - Visit with the Great Spirit (Gramavision)
1985: Emil Viklický, Bill Frisell, Kermit Driscoll, Vinton Johnson - Dveře / Door (Supraphon, re-released in 1997 on Bonton as Okno & Dveře / Door & Window )
1985: Gunter Hampel - Fresh Heat: Live at Sweet Basil (Birth)
1985: Billy Hart - Oshumare (Gramavision)
1985: Herb Robertson - Transparency (JMT)
1985: Marc Johnson - Bass Desires (ECM)
1985: Leni Stern - Clairvoyant (Passport)
1986: Lyle Mays - Lyle Mays (Geffen Records)
1986: Paul Bley Quartet - Fragments (ECM)
1987: Stefan F. Winter - The Little Trumpet (JMT)
1987: Marc Johnson's Bass Desires - Second Sight (ECM)
1987: Paul Bley Quartet - The Paul Bley Quartet (ECM)
1987: Wayne Horvitz - The President (Dossier)
1987: Hank Roberts - Black Pastels (JMT)
1987: Tim Berne - Fulton Street Maul (CBS)
1988: Wayne Horvitz, Butch Morris , Robert Previte / Doug Wieselman , Bill Frisell play Robin Holcomb - Todos Santos (Sound Aspects)
1988: Billy Hart - Rah (Gramavision)
1988: Julius Hemphill - Julius Hemphill Big Band ( Elektra / Musician )
1988: Lyle Mays - Street Dreams ( Geffen )
1988: Bobby Previte - Claude's Late Morning (Gramavision)
1990: Robin Holcomb - Robin Holcomb (Elektra / Musician)
1990: Ashley Maher - Hi (Virgin) Solo on one track
1991: Gavin Bryars - After the Requiem (ECM New Series)
1991: Mike Gibbs - Big Music (Venture)
1991: Ryuichi Sakamoto - Heartbeat ( Virgin )
1992: Rinde Ekert - Finding My Way Home ( DIW )
1992: Robin Holcomb - Rockabye (Elektra / Musician)
1992: Wayne Horvitz - Miracle Mile (Elektra Nonesuch)
1992: Don Byron - Tuskagee Experiments (Elektra / Musician)
1992: John Scofield - Grace Under Pressure ( Blue Note )
1993: Jerry Granelli - A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing (Evidence)
1994: Michael Shrieve - Fascination ( CMP )
1995: Don Byron - Music for Six Musicians (Nonesuch)
1995: Michael Shrieve - Two Doors (CMP)
1996: Arto Lindsay - O corpo sutil / The Subtle Body (Ryko)
1997: Kenny Wheeler - Angel Song (ECM)
1997: Ron Miles - Womans Day (Gramavision)
1997: Gabriela - Detras del sol (intuition)
1997: Donald Rubinstein - Time Again (Rhombus)
1998: Marc Johnson - The Sound of Summer Running ( Verve )
1998: Douglas September - Ten Bulls (Sampson)
1999: Gabriela - Viento rojo (intuition)
1999: Vinicius Cantuária: Tucumã (Verve / Polygram)
1999: David Sylvian - Dead Bees on a Cake (Virgin) F. on two tracks and two outtakes on Everything and Nothing (2000)
1999: Mike Stern - Play (WEA)
1999: Don Byron - Romance with the Unseen (Blue Note)
1999: Ron Carter Sextet - Orfeu (Blue Note)
2000: Living Daylights - Electric Rosary (Liquid City)
2000: Eyvind Kang - The Story of Iceland (Tzadik)
2000: Tony Scherr - Come Around (Smells Like)
2001: Vinicius Cantuária - Vinicius (Transparent Music) F. on three pieces
2002: Norah Jones - Come Away with Me (Blue Note) F. on "The Long Day Is Over"
2002: Sarah Siskind - Covered (Infrasound Collective)
2002: Robin Holcomb - The Big Time (Nonesuch)
2002: Ron Miles - Heaven (Sterling Circle)
2002: Wayne Horvitz - Film Music 1998-2001 (Tzadik)
2003: Danny Barnes - Dirt on the Angel (Terminus)
2003: Laura Veirs - Troubled by the Fire (Bella Union)
2003: Rickie Lee Jones - The Evening of My Best Day (V2) F. on two tracks
2004: Dave Douglas - Strange Liberation (RCA)
2004: Mylab - Mylab (terminus)
2004: Mount Analog - New Skin (Filmguerro)
2005: Jazz ensemble of the Hessischer Rundfunk - Atmospheric Conditions Permitting (Radio Recordings 1967-1993) (ECM)
2005: Vic Chesnutt - Ghetto Bells (New West)
2005: Loudon Wainwright III - Here Come the Choppers (Sovereign)
2005: Renée Fleming with Fred Hersch and Bill Frisell - Haunted Heart (Decca)
2005: Lizz Wright - Dreaming Wide Awake (Verve Forecast) F. on three tracks
2005: Heather Greene - Five Dollar Dress (BHM Music)
2005: Cuong Vu - It's Mostly Residual (Intoxicate)
2005: Almost Heaven: Original Soundtrack (Island)
2005: Jenny Scheinman - 12 songs (Cryptogramophone)
2005: David Binney - Out of Airplanes (BeenKnee)
2006: Jonah Smith - Jonah Smith (Relix)
2006: Gabriela - El viaje (intuition)
2006: Gianmaria Testa - Da questa parte del mare ( Le Chant du Monde )
2007: Donald Rubinstein - Knightriders (Perseverance)
2007: Lucinda Williams - West (Anti)
2007: Joe Henry - Civilians (Anti)
2008: Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (Southern Lord)
2009: Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Destiny Street Repaired (Insound)
2009: Sam Shrieve - Bittersweet Lullabies (Colorburst Soundfield) Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and another song
2010: Buddy Miller - Buddy Miller's Majestic Silver Strings (New West) with Marc Ribot and Greg Leisz
2011: Hank Roberts - Everything Is Alive (Winter & Winter)
2012: Shawn Colvin - All Fall Down (Nonesuch)
2015: Lucinda Williams - The Ghost of Highway 20 (Highway 20)
2017: Kramer - The Brill Building, Book Two Featuring Bill Frisell (Tzadik)
2017: Ron Miles - I Am a Man (Yellowbird) with Jason Moran , Thomas Morgan and Brian Blade

(Note: The discography follows the article on English Wikipedia and is only slightly different here, ie with the year in front, edited. The English article also links almost every publication to its own entry with production dates, title list and cast.)

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↑ Bill Frisell: Live Download Series # 1-13 on All About Jazz

Web links

Bill Frisell discography on Frisell's own website
Bill Frisell at Allmusic (English)
Bill Frisell / Discography at Discogs (English)
Bill Frisell discography by Bryan Aaker, active until 2007 (English)

[1] Bill Frisell: Live Download Series # 1-13 on All About Jazz