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Frisell's Jazz-Americana works best when a complex array of visual imagery seizes his musical imagination. This DVD (Songline/Tone Field) reintroduces film soundtracks the Bill Frisell Trio recorded years ago as a CD. Synchronization with these three silent Buster Keaton films makes listening again a revelatory experience. The best of the films is "Go West" showcasing how a good-natured bumbling underdog saves a rancher from ruin while winning the rancher's daughter. Frisell's guitars appropriate motifs from Copland's "Billy the Kid" and vaudeville, while bassist Kermit Driscoll and drummer Joey Baton cook up a storm behind the ever-inventive Frisell,
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