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When We Go 6. President's Nap 7. Song Is Not Enough 8. Blame and Shame 9. Unchained Melody. Bill Frisell - guit. Ronald Shannon Jackson - dr. Melvin Gibbs - bass.

Frisell is more or less the leader here, and his phenomenal guitar technique is more than up for the task. Sometimes soft and lyrically expressive like a lap pedal-steel, Bill's guitar seems too fluent to be a guitar. At other times he stings with a compressed distorted sound that recalls Terje Rypdal bordering on David Gilmour or Jimi Hendrix. The music this trio makes varies from bittersweet impressionistic melodies to full on sonic assaults driven by Jackson's muscular drumming. A typical recipe for some of their best tunes involves a melancholic melody whose changes are repeated in a format known to jazz musicians.

As the chords come around the band becomes increasingly abstract, expressive and busy as they drive the initial melody through some harsh deconstruction. Their original tune Howard Beach Memoir is especially gripping as the band recreates the harrowing racial incident the tune is named for with a lonely opening melody followed by a purposefully hopeless improv that can't connect.

On another successful track, maudlin chestnut Unchained Melody loses it's sentimental 'chains' and takes on new life under the Power Tools approach. One of the very best jazz rock records that came out in the 80s, this record is highly recommended.

Power Tools joins Quiet Sun and Blind Faith as one of those bands that should have put out way more than one record. Bill Frisell's guitar is recognisable there, and sounds sometimes as his nostalgic-melancholic provincial Americana in his earlier solo works, or as nervous, cold and noisy as his Naked City's recordings. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country.

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