Five songs into Big Sur, the immensely fun new recording by Bill Frisell, we stumble onto a sound that, on the surface, seems new. But like so many explorations the guitarist has embarked on before, especially ones using some form of Americana and jazz as starting points, the resulting music is a hybrid. In the case of the spry tune in question, The Big One, what we hear is a cross-pollination of surf and...
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