# Bill Frisell discography

This discography features albums released by guitarist Bill Frisell, released recordings of bands and projects he was/is a member of, and albums on which he appears as guest musician. Labels and dates indicate first release.

## Albums
### Albums

| Title | Year | Label |
| In Line | 1983 | ECM |
| Rambler | 1985 | ECM |
| Lookout for Hope | 1988 | ECM |
| Before We Were Born | 1989 | Nonesuch |
| Is That You? | 1990 | Nonesuch |
| Where in the World? | 1991 | Nonesuch |
| Have a Little Faith | 1992 | Nonesuch |
| This Land | 1994 | Nonesuch |
| Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton | 1995 | Nonesuch |
| The High Sign/One Week: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton | 1995 | Nonesuch |
| Live | 1995 | Gramavision |
| Quartet | 1996 | Nonesuch |
| Nashville | 1997 | Nonesuch |
| Gone, Just Like a Train | 1998 | Nonesuch |
| Good Dog, Happy Man | 1999 | Nonesuch |
| The Sweetest Punch | 1999 | Decca |
| Ghost Town | 2000 | Nonesuch |
| Blues Dream | 2001 | Nonesuch |
| With Dave Holland and Elvin Jones | 2001 | Nonesuch |
| The Willies | 2002 | Nonesuch |
| The Intercontinentals | 2003 | Nonesuch |
| Unspeakable | 2004 | Nonesuch |
| Richter 858 | 2005 | Songlines |
| East/West | 2005 | Nonesuch |
| Further East / Further West (only available as a digital download) | 2005 | Nonesuch |
| Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian | 2006 | Nonesuch |
| Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian EP (only available as a digital download) | 2006 | Nonesuch |
| History, Mystery | 2008 | Nonesuch |
| Disfarmer | 2009 | Nonesuch |
| Beautiful Dreamers | 2010 | Savoy |
| Sign of Life: Music for 858 Quartet | 2011 | Savoy |
| All We Are Saying | 2011 | Savoy |
| Hunter S. Thompson – The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved | 2012 | 429/Paris |
| Silent Comedy | 2013 | Tzadik |
| Big Sur | 2013 | OKeh |
| Guitar in the Space Age! | 2014 | OKeh |
| When You Wish Upon a Star | 2016 | OKeh |
| Alfie / I Love Lucy (limited 7 inch vinyl single) | 2016 | OKeh |
| Small Town (with Thomas Morgan) | 2016 | ECM |
| Music IS | 2018 | OKeh |
| Epistrophy (with Thomas Morgan) | 2019 | ECM |
| Harmony | 2019 | Blue Note |
| Valentine | 2020 | Blue Note |
| Four | 2022 | Blue Note |
| Orchestras | 2024 | Blue Note |

### Live Download Series

The series is produced as a subsidiary label of Lee Townsend's Songline/Tone Field, and distributed online as lossless FLAC, MP3 and AAC files with printable cover art.
| Title | Year |
| #001 Live in Bochum, Germany - May 22, 2004 | 2008 |
| #002 Live in San Francisco, CA - March 16, 2007 | 2009 |
| #003 Live in San Francisco, CA - February 5, 2005, Set 2 | 2009 |
| #004 Live in New York, NY - May 1, 2004, Set 3 | 2009 |
| #005 Live in London, UK - November 15, 2005 | 2009 |
| #006 Live in Boulder, CO - November 5, 2003 | 2009 |
| #007 Live in Seattle, WA - February 21, 2006 | 2009 |
| #008 Live in New York, NY - September 26, 1996, Set 1 | 2010 |
| #009 Live in New York, NY - October 12, 1992 | 2010 |
| #010 Live in Oakland, CA - July 15, 1989 | 2010 |
| #011 Live in Budapest, Hungary - March 29, 2003 | 2010 |
| #012 Live in Seattle, WA - July 16, 2002 | 2010 |
| #013 Live in Tokyo, Japan - July 21, 2000 | 2010 |
| #014 Live in Chapel Hill, NC - March 22, 2009 | 2011 |
| #015 Live in Seattle, WA - August 6, 2011, Set 2 | 2011 |
| #016 Live in Florence, Italy - February 10, 1993 | 2012 |
| #017 Live in Portland, OR - February 25, 2012 | 2012 |
| #018 Live in Köln, Germany - March 27, 1995 | 2013 |
| #019 Live in Santa Monica, CA - January 10, 1998, Set 2 | 2014 |
| #020 Live in Austin, TX - March 8, 2015 | 2015 |
| #021 Live in California - April 11, 2010 - April 13, 2010 | 2015 |
| #022 Hurricane Harvey Relief (download series compilation) | 2017 |

## Compilations

* Works (ECM, 1988)
* A-Collection (WEA, 2000)
* Rarum: Selected Recordings of Bill Frisell (ECM, 2002)
* The Best of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1 - Folk Songs (Nonesuch, 2009)

## Collaborations

* Theoretically with Tim Berne (Empire, 1984)
* Smash & Scatteration with Vernon Reid (Minor Music, 1985)
* Strange Meeting by Power Tools with Melvin Gibbs and Ronald Shannon Jackson (Antilles, 1987)
* Just So Happens with Gary Peacock (Postcards, 1994)
* American Blood/Safety in Numbers with Victor Bruce Godsey and Brian Ales (Intuition, 1995)
* Deep Dead Blue with Elvis Costello (Nonesuch, 1995)
* Time Again with Donald Rubinstein (Rhombus, 1997)
* Motion Pictures with Michael White (Intuition, 1997)
* Songs We Know with Fred Hersch (Nonesuch, 1998)
* Petra Haden and Bill Frisell with Petra Haden (True North, 2003)
* The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers with Jack DeJohnette (Golden Beams, 2006)
* Floratone with Matt Chamberlain, Lee Townsend, and Tucker Martine (Blue Note, 2007)
* Hemispheres with Jim Hall (ArtistShare, 2008)
* Floratone II with Matt Chamberlain, Lee Townsend, and Tucker Martine (Savoy, 2012)
* Lágrimas Mexicanas with Vinicius Cantuária (Naïve, 2011)
* Enfants Terribles with Lee Konitz, Gary Peacock, and Joey Baron (Half Note, 2012)
* Strata with Skúli Sverrisson (Newvelle, 2018)
* More Than Enough with Gregory Tardy (Newvelle, 2019)
* Clock Face with Elvis Costello (Concord, 2020)
* Americana with Grégoire Maret and Romain Collin (ACT, 2020)
* Breaking the Shell with Kit Downes, Andrew Cyrille (Red Hook, 2024)
* Live Forever, Vol. 3: Wayne Horvitz, Bill Frisell Duo: Frankfurt, Knitting Factory 89-90, (Wayne Horvitz, 2024)

## With Paul Motian and Joe Lovano

All albums with Paul Motian are with saxophonist Joe Lovano, except as noted.
* Psalm with Ed Schuller and Billy Drewes (ECM, 1982)
* The Story of Maryam with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper (Soul Note, 1984)
* Jack of Clubs with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper (Soul Note, 1985)
* It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago (ECM, 1985)
* Misterioso with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper (Soul Note, 1987)
* Monk in Motian with Geri Allen and Dewey Redman (JMT, 1988)
* On Broadway Volume 1 (JMT, 1989)
* One Time Out (Soul Note, 1989)
* On Broadway Volume 2 with Charlie Haden (JMT, 1989)
* Worlds with the Joe Lovano Wind Ensemble (Label Bleu, 1989)
* Bill Evans with Marc Johnson (JMT, 1990)
* Motian in Tokyo (JMT, 1991)
* On Broadway Volume 3 with Lee Konitz and Charlie Haden (JMT, 1991)
* Trioism (JMT, 1994)
* At the Village Vanguard (JMT, 1995)
* Sound of Love (Winter & Winter, 1997)
* I Have the Room Above Her (ECM, 2005)
* Time and Time Again (ECM, 2007)
* The Windmills of Your Mind with Petra Haden and Thomas Morgan w/o Lovano (Winter & Winter, 2011)

## With John Zorn

Albums mostly written and produced by Zorn, in part with Zorn playing alto saxophone (or other instruments), sometimes conducting the ensemble.
* The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone (Elektra/Nonesuch, 1986)
* "Godard" on French compilation Godard ça vous chante? (Nato, 1986, Tzadik reissue on Godard/Spillane, 1999)
* Cobra (Hathut, 1987)
* Spillane (Elektra/Nonesuch, 1987)
* News for Lulu with George E. Lewis (Hathut, 1988)
* Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour (CBS/Sony (Japan), 1989)
* More News for Lulu (Hathut, 1990)
* Filmworks 1986–1990 (Elektra Nonesuch, 1992)
* Filmworks III: 1990–1995 (Toys Factory, 1996)
* New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands (Tzadik, 1997)
* Masada Guitars (Tzadik, 2003)
* Spinoza (Tzadik, 2022)
* Perchance to Dream (Tzadik, 2022)
With Naked City
* Naked City (Elektra Nonesuch, 1989)
* Torture Garden (Shimmy Disc, 1990)
* Grand Guignol (Avant, 1992)
* Leng Tch'e (Toys Factory, 1992)
* Heretic (Avant, 1992)
* Radio (Avant, 1993)
* Absinthe (Avant, 1993)
* Live, Vol. 1: The Knitting Factory 1989 (Tzadik, 2002)
* Complete Studio Recordings (compilation, Tzadik, 2005)
With the Gnostic Trio (with Carol Emmanuel, Kenny Wollesen)
* The Gnostic Preludes (Tzadik, 2012)
* The Mysteries (Tzadik, 2013)
* In Lambeth (Tzadik, 2013)
* The Testament of Solomon (Tzadik, 2014)
* Transmigration of the Magus (Tzadik, 2014)
* The Mockingbird (Tzadik, 2016)
* The Book Beri'ah, Vol. 7: Netzach (Tzadik, 2019)
* Gnosis: The Inner Light (Tzadik, 2021)
With Julian Lage & Gyan Riley
* Nove cantici per Francesco d'Assisi (Tzadik, 2019)
* Virtue (Tzadik, 2020)
* Teresa de Avila (Tzadik, 2021)
* Parables (Tzadik, 2021)
* A Garden of Forking Paths (Tzadik, 2021)
* Nothing Is as Real as Nothing (Tzadik, 2023)
* Lamentations (Tzadik, 2024)

## Albums featured

| Leading artist and/or band | Album | Year | Label | Notes |
| Michel Herr, Bill Frisell, Vinton Johnson, Kermit Driscoll | Good Buddies | 1978 | EMI Belgium | |
| Eberhard Weber | Fluid Rustle | 1979 | ECM | |
| Emil Viklický, Bill Frisell, Kermit Driscoll, Vinton Johnson | Okno | 1981 | Supraphon | reissued as Okno & Dveře / Door & Window on Bonton in 1997 |
| Various | Amarcord Nino Rota: Interpretations of Nino Rota's Music from the Films of Federico Fellini | 1981 | Hannibal | Hal Willner production |
| Arild Andersen | A Molde Concert | 1982 | ECM | |
| Jan Garbarek | Paths, Prints | 1982 | ECM | |
| Mike Metheny | Blue Jay Sessions | 1982 | Headfirst | |
| Eberhard Weber | Later That Evening | 1982 | ECM | |
| Jan Garbarek | Wayfarer | 1983 | ECM | |
| Bob Moses | When Elephants Dream of Music | 1983 | Gramavision | |
| Jim Pepper | Comin' and Goin' | 1983 | Europa | |
| Bob Moses | Visit with the Great Spirit | 1984 | Gramavision | |
| Gunter Hampel | Fresh Heat: Live at Sweet Basil | 1985 | Birth | |
| Billy Hart | Oshumare | 1985 | Gramavision | |
| Herb Robertson | Transparency | 1985 | JMT | |
| Leni Stern | Clairvoyant | 1985 | Passport | |
| Emil Viklický, Bill Frisell, Kermit Driscoll, Vinton Johnson | Dveře / Door | 1985 | Supraphon | reissued 1997 with Okno / Window on Bonton |
| Paul Bley | Fragments | 1986 | ECM | |
| Marc Johnson | Bass Desires | 1986 | ECM | |
| Lyle Mays | Lyle Mays | 1986 | Geffen | |
| Stefan F. Winter | The Little Trumpet | 1986 | JMT | |
| Tim Berne | Fulton Street Maul | 1987 | Columbia | |
| Paul Bley | The Paul Bley Quartet | 1987 | ECM | |
| Marianne Faithfull | Strange Weather | 1987 | Island | Hal Willner production |
| Wayne Horvitz | The President | 1987 | Dossier | |
| Marc Johnson's Bass Desires | Second Sight | 1987 | ECM | |
| Bob Moses | The Story of Moses | 1987 | Gramavision | |
| Hank Roberts | Black Pastels | 1987 | JMT | |
| Mathilde Santing | Out of This Dream: A Third Side | 1987 | Megadisc | Hal Willner production |
| Billy Hart | Rah | 1988 | Gramavision | |
| Julius Hemphill | Julius Hemphill Big Band | 1988 | Elektra/Musician | |
| Robin Holcomb | Todos Santos ... Play Robin Holcomb | 1988 | Sound Aspects | one half of the album with duos by Frisell and Doug Wieselman |
| Lyle Mays | Street Dreams | 1988 | Geffen | |
| Bobby Previte | Claude's Late Morning | 1988 | Gramavision | |
| Various | Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films | 1988 | A&M | Hal Willner production |
| Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer | Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves | 1989 | Island | Hal Willner production |
| Allen Ginsberg | The Lion for Real | 1989 | Great Jones, Antilles | Hal Willner production |
| Caetano Veloso | Estrangeiro | 1989 | Philips | |
| Robin Holcomb | Robin Holcomb | 1990 | Elektra/Musician | |
| Gavin Bryars | After the Requiem | 1991 | ECM New Series | |
| Mike Gibbs | Big Music | 1991 | Venture | |
| Ryuichi Sakamoto | Heartbeat | 1991 | Virgin | |
| David Sanborn | Another Hand | 1991 | Elektra/Musician | Hal Willner production |
| Don Byron | Tuskegee Experiments | 1992 | Elektra/Musician | |
| Rinde Ekert | Finding My Way Home | 1992 | DIW | |
| Robin Holcomb | Rockabye | 1992 | Elektra/Musician | |
| Wayne Horvitz | Miracle Mile | 1992 | Elektra Nonesuch | |
| John Scofield | Grace Under Pressure | 1992 | Blue Note | |
| Various | Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus | 1992 | Columbia | Hal Willner production featuring Elvis Costello and the instruments designed and built by Harry Partch |
| Brian Ales | Naiveté | 1993 | Intuition | on "Personal Montuno" and "This Dream" |
| Jerry Granelli | A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing | 1993 | Evidence | |
| Ginger Baker | Going Back Home | 1994 | WEA | |
| Michael Shrieve | Fascination | 1994 | CMP | |
| William S. Burroughs | Naked Lunch | 1995 | Warner | Hal Willner production |
| Don Byron | Music for Six Musicians | 1995 | Nonesuch | |
| Michael Shrieve | Two Doors | 1995 | CMP | |
| Arto Lindsay | O Corpo Sutil / The Subtle Body | 1996 | Rykodisc | |
| Ginger Baker | Falling Off the Roof | 1996 | WEA | |
| Joey Baron | Down Home | 1997 | Intuition | |
| Gabriela | Detrás del sol | 1997 | Intuition | |
| Ron Miles | Woman's Day | 1997 | Gramavision | |
| Donald Rubinstein | Time Again | 1997 | Rhombus | |
| Kenny Wheeler | Angel Song | 1997 | ECM | |
| Marc Johnson | The Sound of Summer Running | 1998 | Verve | |
| Douglas September | Ten Bulls | 1998 | Sampson | |
| Don Byron | Romance with the Unseen | 1999 | Blue Note | |
| Vinicius Cantuaria | Tucumã | 1999 | Verve/PolyGram | |
| Ron Carter | Orfeu | 1999 | Blue Note | |
| Gabriela | Viento rojo | 1999 | Intuition | |
| Mike Stern | Play | 1999 | WEA | |
| David Sylvian | Dead Bees on a Cake | 1999 | Virgin | two tracks with Frisell, another two outtakes on 2000 compilation Everything and Nothing |
| Joey Baron | We'll Soon Find Out | 2000 | Intuition | |
| Eyvind Kang | The Story of Iceland | 2000 | Tzadik | |
| John Scofield | The Story of Iceland | 2000 | Tzadik | |
| Living Daylights | Electric Rosary | 2000 | Liquid City | on four tracks |
| Various | The Million Dollar Hotel: Music from the Motion Picture | 2000 | Interscope | Hal Willner production |
| Dale Bruning | Reunion | 2001 | Jazz Link | |
| Vinicius Cantuaria | Vinicius | 2001 | Transparent | |
| Norah Jones | Come Away with Me | 2002 | Blue Note | on "The Long Day Is Over" |
| Robin Holcomb | The Big Time | 2002 | Nonesuch | |
| Wayne Horvitz | Film Music 1998–2001 | 2002 | Tzadik | |
| Ron Miles | Heaven | 2002 | Sterling Circle | |
| Sarah Siskind | Covered | 2002 | Infrasound Collective | |
| Danny Barnes | Dirt on the Angel | 2003 | Terminus | |
| Rickie Lee Jones | The Evening of My Best Day | 2003 | V2 | |
| Laura Veirs | Troubled by the Fire | 2003 | Bella Union | |
| Dave Douglas | Strange Liberation | 2004 | RCA | |
| Viktor Krauss | Far from Enough | 2004 | Nonesuch | |
| Mount Analog | New Skin | 2004 | Filmguerro | |
| Mylab | Mylab | 2004 | Terminus | collaboration by Tucker Martine and Wayne Horvitz |
| David Binney | Out of Airplanes | 2005 | BeenKnee | |
| Vic Chesnutt | Ghetto Bells | 2005 | New West | |
| Renée Fleming | Haunted Heart | 2005 | Decca | |
| Heather Greene | Five Dollar Dress | 2005 | BHM | |
| Jazzensemble des Hessischen Rundfunks | Atmospheric Conditions Permitting (Radio Recordings 1967–1993) | 2005 | ECM | compilation with one long track featuring Frisell |
| Jenny Scheinman | 12 Songs | 2005 | Cryptogramophone | |
| Cuong Vu | It's Mostly Residual | 2005 | Intoxicate | |
| Loudon Wainwright III | Here Come the Choppers | 2005 | Sovereign | |
| Lizz Wright | Dreaming Wide Awake | 2005 | Verve Forecast | |
| Various | Fusion for Miles: A Guitar Tribute | 2005 | Tone Center | on "Nefertiti" |
| Gabriela | El viaje | 2006 | Intuition | |
| Carrie Rodriguez | Seven Angels on a Bicycle | 2006 | Train Wreck/Back Porch | |
| Jonah Smith | Jonah Smith | 2006 | Relix | |
| Gianmaria Testa | Da questa parte del mare | 2006 | Le Chant du Monde | |
| Various | Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys | 2006 | Anti- | Hal Willner production |
| Paul Simon | Surprise | 2006 | Warner | on "Everything About It Is a Love Song" |
| Joe Henry | Civilians | 2007 | Anti– | |
| Viktor Krauss | II | 2007 | Narada | |
| Donald Rubinstein | Knightriders | 2007 | Perseverance | on two tracks; reissued as on Scare Flair in 2023 |
| John Scofield | This Meets That | 2007 | EmArcy | |
| Lucinda Williams | West | 2007 | Anti- | |
| Earth | The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | 2008 | Southern Lord | |
| Jakob Bro | Balladeering | 2009 | Loveland | |
| Richard Hell & The Voidoids | Destiny Street Repaired | 2009 | Insound | |
| Sam Shrieve | Bittersweet Lullabies | 2009 | Colorburst Soundfield | on Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and another track |
| Vinicius Cantuaria | Samba Carioca | 2010 | Naïve | |
| Scott Colley | Empire | 2010 | CAM Jazz | |
| Kermit Driscoll | Reveille | 2010 | Nineteen-Eight | |
| Hans Koller | Cry, Want | 2010 | PSI | with Evan Parker a.o. |
| Buddy Miller | Buddy Miller's Majestic Silver Strings | 2010 | New West | with Marc Ribot and Greg Leisz |
| Carrie Rodriguez | Love and Circumstance | 2010 | Ninth Street Opus | |
| Jakob Bro | Time | 2011 | Loveland | |
| Hank Roberts | Everything Is Alive | 2011 | Winter & Winter | |
| Dale Bruning | Just Between Us | 2012 | Jazz Link | |
| Vinicius Cantuaria | Indio de Apartamento | 2011 | Naïve | on three tracks |
| Shawn Colvin | All Fall Down | 2012 | Nonesuch | |
| Ron Miles | Quiver | 2012 | Enja/Yellowbird | |
| Bonnie Raitt | Slipstream | 2012 | Redwing | |
| Jan Erik Vold | Blackdird Bye Bye | 2012 | Hot Club | |
| Joey Baron | Just Listen | 2013 | Relative Pitch | |
| Jakob Bro | December Song | 2013 | Loveland | |
| Sam Amidon | Lily-O | 2014 | Nonesuch | |
| Stefano Bollani | Joy in Spite of Everything | 2014 | ECM | feat. Mark Turner |
| Ron Miles | Circuit Rider | 2014 | Enja/Yellowbird | trio with Brian Blade |
| Greg Cohen | Golden State | 2014 | Relative Pitch | |
| Jenny Scheinman | The Littlest Prisoner | 2014 | Song | |
| Lucinda Williams | Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone | 2014 | Highway 20 | |
| Dale Bruning | Thanks for the Memory... Jim Hall | 2015 | Jazz Link | |
| Vinicius Cantuária | Vinicius Canta Antonio Carlos Jobim | 2015 | Song X Jazz (Jp)/ Sunnyside | on "Só Dango Samba" and "Inútil Paisagem" |
| William S. Burroughs | Let Me Hang You | 2016 | Khannibalism | Hal Willner production |
| Kris Davis | Duopoly | 2016 | Pyroclastic | on two tracks |
| Andrew Cyrille | The Declaration of Musical Independence | 2016 | ECM | |
| Charles Lloyd & The Marvels | I Long to See You | 2016 | Blue Note | |
| Carrie Rodriguez | Lola | 2016 | Luz | |
| Allen Toussaint | American Tunes | 2016 | Nonesuch | |
| Jerry Granelli | Dance Hall | 2017 | Justin Time | |
| Kramer | The Brill Building, Book Two | 2017 | Tzadik | |
| Ron Miles | I Am a Man | 2017 | Enja/Yellowbird | |
| Cuong Vu 4-Tet | Ballet (The Music of Michael Gibbs) | 2017 | RareNoise | |
| Andrew Cyrille | Lebroba | 2018 | ECM | trio with Wadada Leo Smith |
| Mary Halvorson | The Maid with the Flaxen Hair | 2018 | Tzadik | |
| Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams | Vanished Gardens | 2018 | Blue Note | |
| Cuong Vu 4-Tet | Change in the Air | 2018 | RareNoise |
| Paul Simon | In the Blue Light | 2018 | Legacy |
| Sarah Siskind | Modern Appalachia | 2020 | Red Request | on "Modern Appalachia" and "Porchlight" |
| Jesse Harris, Vinicius Cantuária | Surpresa | 2021 | Sunnyside | |
| Andrew Cyrille | The News | 2021 | ECM | |
| Charles Lloyd & The Marvels | Tone Poem | 2021 | Blue Note | |
| Charles Lloyd | Trios: Chapel | 2022 | Blue Note | |
| Noël Akchoté | Loving Highsmith | 2022 | Ayler | |
| Ches Smith | Interpret It Well | 2022 | Pyroclastic | |
| Julian Lage | View with a Room | 2022 | Blue Note | |
| Julian Lage | The Layers | 2023 | Blue Note | |
| Ambrose Akinmusire | Owl Song | 2023 | Blue Note |
| Chantal Acda/The Atlantic Drifters | Silently Held | 2024 | Challenge Classics | |
| Jenny Scheinman | All Species Parade | 2024 | Royal Potato Family | |

## Film soundtracks

Beside his music for Buster Keaton's silent films Go West, The High Sign and One Week (see album section above), his collaborations with producer Hal Willner (cf. section above), and with John Zorn on his music for films (cf. section above), Frisell provided also original soundtracks for the following films
* Gary Larson's Tales from the Far Side I & II directed by Gary Larson and Marv Newland (CBS, 1994 & 1997)
* La scuola, feature film directed by Daniele Luchetti (1995)
* American Hollow, documentary film directed by Rory Kennedy (HBO, 1999)
* Almost Heaven [de], feature film directed by Ed Herzog [de] (O.S.T. on Island, 2005)
* All Hat, feature film directed by Leonard Farlinger (O.S.T. on EmArcy, 2008)
* Disfarmer: A Portrait of America on photographer Mike Disfarmer directed by Martin Lavut (2010)
** The Disfarmer Project, DVD with live performances and interviews (La Huit, 2012)
* Portrait of a Man, documentary film directed by Visa Koiso-Kanttila (2010)
* The Great Flood, documentary film on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 directed by Bill Morrison (DVD, Icarus Films, 2014)
* Change in the Air, feature film directed by Dianne Dreyer (2018)
For the Music from the Motion Picture Finding Forrester (2000) starring Sean Connery Hal Willner chose –alongside music by Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman– several tracks from Frisell's already existing œuvre. His music was exclusively used by photographer Joel Meyerowitz' portrait of his dad, Pop, that was produced for HBO Frontline (Season 17, Episode 10, 1999). For The Lobster and the Liver: The Unique World of Jim Woodring (2010) on cartoonist Jim Woodring directed by Jonathan Howells featured his music as well.

### Personal appearances in music documentary films and TV shows

Appearances as himself as musician and/or pundit
* Bill Frisell: A Portrait directed by Emma Franz (2017)

#### In music documentary films

* Icons Among Us on jazz today, directed by Lars Larson, Michael Rivoira and Peter J. Vogt (2009)
* Weightless: A Recording Session with Jakob Bro featuring Jakob Bro, directed by Sune Blicher (2009)
* In Good Time: The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland on Marian McPartland, directed by Huey (2011)
* Every Other Summer on Wilco's 2013 Solid Sound music festival, directed by Christoph Green and Brendan Canty (2015)
* Carmine Street Guitars directed by Ron Mann (2018)
* Music for Black Pigeons featuring Jakob Bro, directed by Andreas Koefoed and Jørgen Leth (2022)

#### On TV shows

* Spectacle: Elvis Costello with..., Season 1, Episode 7 and 9, accompanying Renée Fleming and Rufus Wainwright (Channel 4/CTV, both 2009)
* The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Season 2, Episode 156, as guest musician accompanying Paul Simon (CBS, 2017)