Guitar in the Space Age!

Personnel: Bill Frisell (electric guitar); Greg Leisz (electric guitar); Kenny Wollesen (vibraphone, drums, percussion); Tony Scherr (acoustic bass, electric bass).Recording information: Flora Recording, Portland, OR; Playback, Portland, OR.Photographer: Paul Moore .Guitar in the Space Age! finds guitarist Bill Frisell going back in time to the guitar music of the country, surf, blues, and early rock & roll of the late 1950s through the mid-'60s: the music that initially inspired him. His band -- Greg Leisz on guitar and pedal steel, drummer /vibraphonist Kenny Wollesen, and bassist Tony Scherr -- are all longtime associates. Though most of these songs are classics -- there are two originals -- Frisell reimagines them in a jazzman's context while remaining faithful to familiar presentations. This is demonstrated amply on the opening surf nugget "Pipeline." Rather than go straight for the jugular the way most (gimmicky) remakes do, he slows its pace by half and focuses on the intric