1. He plays fluently across its full range but also has a very strong jazz feeling, stretching and bending notes for greater expression. 2. At other moments, Frisell cut loose like a Mississippi Delta bluesman, bending notes and squeezing chords until they begged for mercy. 3. Elsewhere, the basses and tenors sing in octaves, bending the notes into strange Oriental dissonance. 4. He bent notes, shattered riffs, distorted feedback and, always, turned up the volume. 5. So he bent notes. 6. You can even bend notes. 7. You can bend notes which cry and moan lonesomely, like wind on a rainy, stormy night. 8. Ziggy bends a note, he echoes it instantly. 9. As it developed, the electric guitar allowed musicians to sustain and bend notes in ways that opened a new universe of sound. 10. His nasal voice bends notes into a growl, playing with sounds as if inspired by Joao Bosco. |