Bill Frisell | Compositions

Published by Friz-Tone Music (BMI)

Unless otherwise noted, Friz-Tone Music controls 100% of publishing rights of all compositions below.

History, Mystery  (Nonesuch 435964, 5/13/2008)
Another Momentary Suspension of Doubt
Answer 1
Answer 2
Boo and Scout
Faces
Heal
Imagination
Lazy Robinson
Lazy Robinson Part 2
Momentary Suspension of Doubt
Monroe
Monroe Part 2
Monroe Part 3
Onward
Out of Body
Probability Cloud
Probability Cloud Part 2
Probability Cloud Reprise
Question 1
Question 2
Show Me
Struggle
Struggle Part 2
Waltz for Baltimore
What We Need
What We Need Part 2

Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian  (Nonesuch 79897-2, 8/29/2006)
Monroe
Pretty Polly (arr. trad / 100%)
Worse and Worse

plus 7 covers

Jack DeJohnette Featuring: Bill Frisell (Golden Beams Prod. 1116, 2006)
Cartune Riots (50%)
Cat and Mouse (50%)
(The) Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers (33%)
Entranced Androids (50%)
(The) Garden of Chew-Man-Chew (50%)
Ode to South Africa (33%)
One Tooth Shuffle (50%)
Otherwordly Dervishes (33%)
Storm Clouds and Mist (50%)
Through the Warphole (50%)

plus 1 cover

East West (Nonesuch 79863-2, 2-CD-set, 2005)
Blues for Los Angeles
Boubacar
Interlude (33%
Pipe Down
Ron Carter
Shenandoah (Trad. arr.)
The Vanguard (33%
You Can Run (33%

plus 8 covers

Unspeakable (Nonesuch 79828, 2004)
1968   100% Friz-Tone Music
Alias  33%
D. Sharpe  100%
Del Close  33%
Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye 33%
 Gregory C.  50%
Hymn for Ginsberg  100%
Stringbean  33%
Tony  33%
White Fang   50%
Who Was That Girl  20%

plus 3 uncontrolled tracks

The Intercontinentals (Nonesuch 301026, 3/2003)
Anywhere Road             (1:52)
Boubacar                        (6:13)
Eli                                    (4:15)
For Christos                        (6:17)
Good Old People            (5:26)
Listen                                    (6:47)
Magic                                    (5:55)
Remember                        (1:38)
We Are Everywhere            (7:09)
plus 5 uncontrolled tracks

Richter 858 (Shifting Foundation/SF MoMA, Songlines Records 10/2002)
858-1            (7:54)
858-2            (3:12)
858-3            (4:10)
858-4            (8:55)
858-5            (4:32)
858-6            (6:36)
858-7            (6:26)
858-8            (2:25)

The Willies (Nonesuch 79652, 6/2002)
Big Shoe
Everybody Loves Everybody
Get Along
I Know You Care
I Want To Go Home
If I Could I Surely Would
Willies, The

Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones (Nonesuch 79624, 10/2001)
Again
Blues Dream
Coffaro’s Theme
Convict 13
Justice and Honor
Outlaws
Smilin’ Jones
Strange Meeting
Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa
Twenty Years

Blues Dream (Nonesuch 79615, 1/2001)
Blues Dream
Blues Dream (reprise)
Dream On
Episode
Fifty Years
Greg Leisz
Like Dreamers Do (part one)
Like Dreamers Do (part two)
Outlaws
Pretty Flowers Were Made for Blooming
Pretty Stars Were Made to Shine
Ron Carter
Slow Dance
Soul Merchant
The Tractor
Things Will Never Be the Same
What Do We Do?
Where Do We Go?

Anti-jazz: Global Blues (Gallery Tungston 200101, 1/2001)
Strange Meeting

Zony Mash: Upper Egypt (Knitting Factory 259, 2/2000)
Big Shoe

Ghost Town (Nonesuch 79583, 4/2000)
Big Bob
Creep
Fingers Snappin’ and Toes Tappin’
Ghost Town/Poem for Eva
Justice and Honor
Outlaw
Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa
Under A Golden Sky
Variation on a Theme (Tales from the Farside)
What A World
Winter Always Turns To Spring

Various Artists: Frisco Mabel Joy Revisited (Appleseed 1048, 10/2000)
Prologue

David Sylvian: Everything and Nothing (EDM/Virgin # 72438500 1727, 11/2000)
Albuquerque (Dobro # 6) (50%)
Apama and Nimisha (Dobro # 5) (50%)

Gabriela: VientoRojo (Intuition Records, 2000)
Ecos de Allá Atrás (Family)  (50%)
El Camino a Casa (The Way Home) (50%)
Una Luz en la Ventana (Lonesome) (50%)
Sad Sack

Good Dog, Happy Man (Nonesuch 79536-2, 1999)
Big Shoe
Cadillac 1959
Cold, Cold Ground
Good Dog, Happy Man
Monroe
My Buffalo Girl
Poem For Eva
Rain, Rain
Roscoe
That Was Then
The Pioneers

Akiko Yano: Go Girl (Epic 2006, 1999)
Gimme A Holler

The Sweetest Punch (Decca 314 559 865, 9/1999)
Vamp Dolce

David Sylvian: Dead Bees On A Cake (Virgin 47071, 1999)
Dobro I (50%)

Gone, Just Like A Train (Nonesuch 79479, 1/98)
Ballroom 
Blues For Los Angeles 
Egg Radio 
Girl Asks Boy (Part 1)
Girl Asks Boy (Part 2) 
Godson Song 
Gone, Just Like Train 
Lonesome  
Lookout For Hope 
Nature’s Symphony 
Pleased To Meet You 
Raccoon Cat
Sherlock, Jr.
The Wife And Kid 
Verona 

Marc Johnson: The Sound of Summer Running (Verve 539 299-2, 3/98)
Ghost Town 
The Adventures Of Ben And Max 

Nashville (Nonesuch 79415, 4/28/1997)
Brother
Dogwood Acres
Family
Gimme A Holler
Go Jake
Gone
Keep Your Eyes Open
Mr. Memory
Pipe Down
Shucks
We’re Not From Around Here

Wayne Horvitz/Pigpen: V as in Victim (Avant AVA-CD-027, Koch 11/97)
Again

Gabriela: Detrás  del Sol (Intuition 35062, 10/97)
Cuando Me Vaya (When We Go) (50%)
Tren De La Medianoche/Rambler (50%)

Funky Groove: Funky Groove (Emercy/Polygram)
Strange Meeting

Carol Emanuel: Tops of Trees    (Koch, 1996)
This Is Only America

Quartet(Nonesuch 79401, 1996)
Bob’s Monsters
Coffaro’s Theme
Convict 13
Dead Ranch
Egg Radio
In Deep
Prelude
Stand Up Sit Down
Tales From The Far Side
The Bacon Bunch
The Gallows
Twenty Years
What?

Ginger Baker: Falling Off The Roof  (Atlantic 82900, 1996)
Amarillo, Barbados
Skeleton
The Day The Sun Come Out (50%)

Arto Lindsay: O Corpo Sutil (The Subtle Body)  1996
(Bar/None-US, Rykodisc-Europe, For Life-Japan)
My Mind Is Going (33%)
Nobody In Bed (50%)

Go West (Nonesuch 79350, 1995)
Ambush
Box Car
Branded
Brown Eyes
Bullfight
Busy Street Scene
Card Game
Cattle Drive
Cops And Firemen
Devil Suit
Down On Luck
Eats
First Aid
Go West
I Want Her
New Day
Passing Through Pasadena
Saddle Up
Splinter Scene
Tap Dancer And Confusion
That A Boy
To The Street
Train
Wolves

The High Sign/One Week (Nonesuch 79351, 1995)
Chase - Caught
Chase - Cop
Construction
Fight
Good Shot - Swearing In - Shooting Gallery
Here Comes The Train
Housewarming Party And Storm
Oh, Well
One Week Theme (X2, -The Wedding, -Aftermath)
Reckless Driving
Target Practice
The Blinking Buzzards
The High Sign Theme

Live (Gramavision GCD 79504, 10/95)
Again
Child At Heart
Crumb
Goodbye
Hello Nellie
Hangdog
Pip, Squeak
Rag
Strange Meeting
Throughout
When We Go

American Blood/Safety In Numbers (Intuition INT 2064, 1995)
(With Victor Bruce Godsey/Brian Ales)
A Silver Existence  (50%)
Busy Busy Busy (50%)
Chase
Children’s Song  (50%)
Circle   (50%)
Death Dance  (50%)
End Of The World  (50%)
Gone, Just Like A Train  (50%)
Highways  (50%)
It’s Time  (50%)
On The Range (50%)
Restoration  (50%)
Rovers (50%)
Safety In Numbers (50%)
The Dawn Of Man (50%)
The Skulk (50%)
The Sun Sets Red In Cairo (50%)
This Is Only America  (50%)
Trance  (50%)
Truth And Consequences (50%)
Us And Whose Army (50%)
Winds Of Distraction (50%)

Jerry Granelli: Another Place (Intuition INT 2130, 1995)
Hello Nellie

Elvis Costello & Bill Frisell: Deep Dead Blue (Warner Bros. 9362-46073, 1995)
Deep Dead Blue (50%)

Allen Ginsberg: Holy Soul Jelly Roll (Rhino 71793, 1995)
Wichita Vortex Sutra Part 3 (50%)
Written In My Dreams by W.C. (50%)

Ginger Baker Trio: Going Back Home (Atlantic 82652, 1994)
Rambler
When We Go

This Land (Nonesuch 79316, 1994)
Amarillo Barbados
Cartoon
Dog Eat Dog
Is It Sweet
Jimmy Carter, Part 1
Jimmy Carter, Part 2
Julius Hemphill
Monica Jane
Rag
Resistor
Strange Meeting
Tag
This Land
Unscientific Americans (Island Music)

Gary Peacock: Just So Happens (Postcards 1005, 1994)
In Walked Po (50%)
Just So Happens (50%)
Only Now (50%)
Through A Skylight (50%)
Wapitis Dream (50%)

Rinde Eckert: Finding My Way Home (DIW-859, 5/92)
One Of Those Mysteries (50%)

David Sanborn: Another Hand (Elektra 61088, 6/91)
Monica Jane

Where In The World? (Elektra 61181, 10/91)
Again
Beautiful E
Child At Heart
Let Me In
Rob Roy
Smilin’ Jones
Spell
Unsung Heroes
Where In The World?
Worry Doll

Allen Ginsberg: The Lion For Real (Island, 1990)
Gregory Corso’s Story (50%)
Sunset (50%)

Is That You? (Elektra 60956, 1990)
Half A Million
Hello Nellie
Hope And Fear
Is That You?
No Man’s Land
Rag
Someone In My Backyard
Twenty Years
The Way Home

Before We Were Born (Elektra 60843, 1989)
Before We Were Born
Freddy’s Step*
Goodbye*
Hard Plains Drifter
Love Motel*
Pip, Sqeak*
Steady, Girl
The Lone Ranger
(*Some Song And Dance)

The Paul Bley Quartet (ECM 1365, 1988)
After Dark

Lookout For Hope (ECM 1350, 1988)
Alien Prints
The Animal Race
Hangdog
Little Bigger
Little Brother Bobby
Lookout For Hope
Lonesome
Melody For Jack
Remedios The Beauty

Billy Hart: Rah (Gramavision, 1988)
Break Up
Reminder

Works (ECM 225273, 1988)
The Beach
Monica Jane
Throughout
When We Go
Wizard Of Odds

Marc Johnson: Second Sight (ECM 1351,  833038, 9/87)
Nineteen Hundred Fifty-One (1951)
Small Hands

Power Tools: Strange Meeting (Island/Antilles 90627, 9/87)
Strange Meeting
Unscientific Americans
When We Go

Vernon Reid & Bill Frisell: Smash & Scatteration
(Minor Music MM 001, 9/85; Rykodisc RCD 10006, 7/1/86)
Amarillo, Barbados
Black Light
Fr, Fr, Frisell
Size 10 1/2 Sneaks
Small Hands

Paul Bley: Fragments  (ECM 1320, 9/86)
Monica Jane

Rambler (ECM 1286, 5/85)
Music I Heard
Rambler
Resistor
Strange Meeting
Tone
When We Go
Wizard Of Odds

Tim Berne/Bill Frisell: Theoretically
(Empire EPC 72K, 11/84; Minor Music MM008, 5/86)
Carolina
M. (50%)
Perky Music

Billy Hart: Oshumare (Gramavision 18-8502, 10/85; GCD 79506, 11/95)
Waiting Inside (NA only, Gramavision Music intn’l)

In Line (ECM 1241, 3/83)
Godson Song
In Line
Shorts
Smile On You
Start
The Beach
Three
Throughout
Two Arms

Soundtracks:

Walk the Line (20th Century Fox, 2005)
Ghost Town/Poem for Eva (film only/not on soundtrack CD)

Finding Forrester (Sony Music, 2000)
Beautiful E
Coffaro’s Theme
Under A Golden Sky

Around the Fire (2000)
State Dependent Thinking (50%)

Gary Larson’s Tales From The Far Side (CBS-TV, 1994)
Bacon Bunch Theme & Incidental Music
Bob’s Dawn
Bob’s Monsters
Bug Plane 1st Class
Bug ‘The Fly’ Sting & Storm Music
Carrot Ghost Story
Dead Ranch
Deer Hunters’ Theme
Egg Kissin’ Theme
Eggbeater Lady
Explosing Kid
Farworks Theme
Headhunter Theme
Tales From The Far Side - Main Theme

La Scuola (Italy, 1994)
After Bomb
Alternate Verona
Badrock Bad
Corn
Crazy Lady
Dog Hotel
Ear On Gift
End
Guitar
Lady Theme
Long Surf Trio
Rock Verona
Silent Movie
Slow Motion
Titoli Testa
Verona In Pigiama
Walk To Car