There was a survey on a jazz guitar board of the favorite Bill Frisell album. A player whom I respect mentioned: "Fluid Rustle, as a young sideman with Eberhard Weber."
Why? He explained further: "Those recordings including In Line capture Bill's amazing voice and musical character finding its sound in pure spacious discovery. This was the stuff that literally changed the worlds of anyone I knew who heard Bill as he was discovering his audience."
An interesting anecdote from this musician on the record and asking Frisell about it: "When In Line came out, it was impossible to find. I'd see Bill pretty regularly, he played with anyone and everyone in those days. I asked him how I could get a copy. The next time I saw him he told me he bought me a copy. He had to BUY his own record because they were so hard to get. It's a treasure, for the artwork, for the music, for the time."
Time to go track this record down. "Fluid Rustle". ECM. 1979.
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