Small town Recorded live at The Village Vanguard (2017)

"This is Frisell's first album for ECM as a (co-)leader since 1988's "Lookout for Hope". It's also the first time, at least in some time, that he's heard with a Gibson semi-acoustic guitar rather than the solid body Fender(-like) guitars that have dominated his work in recent years. His Gibson(s) lacks the intrinsic "twang" for which his Fenders have been so important on many of his roots/Americana-centric recordings. Still, from his very first note/chord on an eleven-minute exploration of Paul Motian's title track from "It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago" (ECM, 1985), the sound the everything is unmistakably Frisell. "Small Town" represents the guitarist's first recorded encounter with Thomas Morgan in the intimate setting of a duo. It's in the naked, vulnerable environs of the duo that the profound chemistry shared by these two thoroughly synchronized players becomes even clearer. Intimate, beautiful and deep, while at the same time knotty, witty and curiously skewed." (Rebecca Kilgore, Allaboutjazz)\n\n"Een muzikale conversatie op hoog niveau." (Gijsbert Kamer, Volkskrant)