Friday's improvisational jazz comes from Bill Frisell, an album from 2004 called Unspeakable which used electronica and samples as a jumping off point, fragments of obscurities on vinyl, and built from there, Bill's electric and acoustic guitars joined by horns, strings and turntables. Not really jazz at all- something else. The guitars on this cross over all sorts of borders and boundaries and the rhythms are all funked up and danceable.
White Fang was a 1906 Jack London novel about a wild dog in Yukon which I read many years ago. London was one of Jack Kerouac's inspirations and Kerouac's friends Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso both turn up in song titles on the album (Hymn For Ginsberg and Gregory C). Frisell is a fan of the jazz that the Beat Generation loved and were inspired by, Wes Montgomery et al, and I guess sees his own music as sharing a similar spirit to theirs.
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