I’m having a hard time not-listening to Bill Frisell’s “Unspeakable,” a CD from 2005 that has been on repeat for many, many days. Produced by Hal Willner, it is a perfect blend of Medeski, Martin & Wood-style jam/funk and Frisell’s pointilist modern-electric “jazz.” There are strings on most tracks and ocassional forays into dissonance (but not so much that Ann asks me to turn it off.) On CD it isn’t quite as “out-there” and revolutionary as his concert with the “Unspeakable Orchestra” that I saw last year, but it is still a great deal of fun.
