Beautiful Dreamers (album)

Beautiful Dreamers is an album by Bill Frisell which was released on the Savoy label in 2010.[1]

Beautiful Dreamers
Studio album by Bill Frisell
Released	August 31, 2010
Recorded	March–April 2010
Studio	Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA
Genre	Jazz
Length	63:17
Label	Savoy SVY17799
Producer	Lee Townsend
Bill Frisell chronology
Disfarmer (2009) Beautiful Dreamers (2010) Lágrimas Mexicanas (2011)

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
All About Jazz	[4]

Response was positive, with Metacritic assigning the album an aggregate score of 77 out of 100 based on 6 critical reviews indicating "Generally favorable reviews".[2] In his review for Allmusic, Thom Jurek notes that, "While this trio is well known for using various effects in concert to expand its sonic palette, and jamming on various tunes for long periods of time, here the musicians are virtually a mirror image of that incarnation, playing with restraint, brevity, and melodic sensitivity... Ultimately, Beautiful Dreamers is a wonderfully balanced trio exercise".[3] Writing for All About Jazz, Troy Collins stated, "Ethereal and spare, with periodic interludes of spry activity, the sixteen tunes that comprise the album are models of brevity and sonic restraint—yet hardly indicators of the trio's expansive diversity, as suggested by contemporaneous concert reports... Beautiful Dreamers fits seamlessly into the arc of Frisell's oeuvre, opening a new, albeit familiar chapter in his discography".[4] JazzTimes's Bill DeMain observed, "this record doesn’t really sound much like jazz as much as compelling, emotionally resonant, genre-free music. Sure, it swings in places, and there’s some fiery improvisation. But after decades of trodding such a brave and singular path, maybe Frisell deserves his own genre. How about “friz”?"[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Bill Frisell except as indicated.

1. "Love Sick" – 1:04
2. "Winslow Homer" – 3:32
3. "Beautiful Dreamer" (Stephen Foster) – 3:02
4. "A Worthy Endeavor" – 5:24
5. "It's Nobody's Fault But Mine" (Blind Willie Johnson) – 4:34
6. "Baby Cry" – 6:21
7. "Benny's Bugle" (Benny Goodman) – 3:31
8. "Tea for Two" (Vincent Youmans) – 4:28
9. "No Time to Cry" – 1:36
10. "Better Than a Machine" – 2:49
11. "Goin' Out of My Head" (Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein) – 2:46
12. "Worried Woman" – 4:44
13. "Keep on the Sunny Side" (A. P. Carter) – 2:26
14. "Sweetie" – 4:28
15. "All We Can Do" – 6:16
16. "Who Was That Girl?" – 6:16

Personnel

• Bill Frisell – guitar
• Eyvind Kang – viola
• Rudy Royston – drums

References

1. Bill Frisell discography Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine, accessed October 23, 2014
2. "Beautiful Dreamers by Bill Frisell - Reviews". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
3. Jurek, Thom. Bill Frisell – Beautiful Dreamers > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
4. Collins, T., All About Jazz Review, August 25, 2010
5. DeMain, B., JazzTimes Review, October 2010