That’s borne out by the fact that the Frisell-Malone duo is essentially a happy accident. You don’t have to try to make anything happen. And you know, when you’ve got musicians who are open-minded who love music, you can just get together and play and not have to think about anything. We both love the guitar, but we both love different types of music also. “There’s more common ground than people may think,” agrees Malone, once the Straight tracks him down in California, where he’s performing with his own quartet. He’s really inspiring for me”¦.I mean, he’s like a real scholar of the whole history of guitar in this country over the last century.”
“The thing with Russell is that he’s so open and enthusiastic about every kind of music, and he has such a wide range that there’s just plenty of room for us to find stuff that we both like to play together. “It’s all surface stuff that’s different,” stresses Frisell, reached by phone at his Seattle home. And while Frisell tends to play a planklike Fender Telecaster, Malone’s usually seen sporting a high-end Gibson hollow-body.Īccording to the newly minted duet, however, their differences aren’t an issue when it comes to making music. Malone was raised in Georgia and served part of his apprenticeship as Diana Krall’s right-hand man. Frisell grew up in Colorado and came to prominence as part of the New York City underground. Both play guitar, it’s true, but their musical backgrounds are as distinct as their temperaments. In contrast, the ebullient Malone is given to plainspoken answers and lengthy anecdotes he’s a classic extrovert. The self-effacing Frisell is so shy people used to joke that he’d been raised by deer when he speaks at all, he often couches his thoughts in elliptical half-sentences. Two more dissimilar characters than Bill Frisell and Russell Malone would be hard to imagine.
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