Live is a live album by Bill Frisell

Bill Frisell

William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...

 released on the Gramavision label. It was released in 1995 and features a performance by Frisell, Kermit Driscoll

Kermit Driscoll

Kermit Driscoll is a New York City jazz bassist perhaps best known for his long association with guitarist Bill Frisell. He was born in Kearney, Nebraska....

, and Joey Baron

Joey Baron

Joey Baron is an American avant-garde jazz drummer probably best known for his work with Bill Frisell, Stan Getz, Steve Kuhn, and John Zorn...

 recorded on Recorded 27 October 1991 at Terceros Encuentros de Nueva Musica, Teatro Lope de Vega, Seville, Spain.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Rick Anderson awarded the album 4.5 stars stating "This album finds Frisell onstage with bassist Kermit Driscoll and drummer Joey Baron, running through a few faves ("Throughout," "Strange Meeting," "When We Go"), as well as some more obscure and surprising material. Driscoll is a sharply intuitive bassist with a reggae player's feel for silence; Baron punctuates more than he undergirds. As a result, this is largely music without groove. Instead, it hovers and floats overhead like a benevolent thunderstorm, sometimes letting loose rumbling, atonal chaos like "Crumb" and sometimes emitting bolts of pure electric light such as the utterly charming "Rag" and the yearning sweetness of "Throughout." "Pip, Squeak/Goodbye" steps briefly into tango territory, and Frisell takes the Sonny Rollins composition "No Moe" all the way back to the Delta with a bent blues solo. The John Hiatt cover, by the way, is the emotional centerpiece of the album: a deeply felt rendition of "Have a Little Faith in Me." This is a very special disc.".

Track listing

1. "Throughout" - 6:42
2. "Rag" - 5:17
3. "Crumb/No Moe" (Frisell/Rollins
   Sonny Rollins
   Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St...
   
   ) - 6:35
4. "Have a Little Faith in Me" (Hiatt
   John Hiatt
   John Hiatt is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave, blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for several Grammy Awards - although he has never won- and has been awarded a variety of other...
   
   ) - 5:12
5. "Pip, Squeak/Goodbye" - 8:56
6. "Hello Nellie" - 8:13
7. "Strange Meeting" - 6:45
8. "Hangdog" - 3:25
9. "Child at Heart" - 10:39
10. "Again" - 5:50
11. "When We Go" - 3:50

All compositions by Bill Frisell except as indicated

• Recorded 27 October 1991 at Terceros Encuentros de Nueva Musica, Teatro Lope de Vega, Sevilla, Spain