Power Tools was a project from 1987 consisting of Bill Frisell on guitar, Melvin Gibbs on bass & Ronald Shannon Jackson on drums. They only recorded this one album, but it features some of Frisell's most brilliant playing outside of his own projects, imo. Also some of his most aggressive and "outside" playing on record outside of his work with Naked City. There's really nothing else like it in the Frisell catalogue. The material on the disc ranges from lyrical ballads to a couple of funky-in-a-Prime Time-sorta-way numbers by Jackson to absolutely scathing free improv, and the disc closes with a version of the old pop gem "Unchained Melody" which ends with about a minute of solo Frisell doing some hilarious loop mangling.
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