Her intricate dissonant unstable multi-stylistic structures amounted to a refounding of jazz music.īy comparison, Tropic Appetites (february 1974) was a mini-opera for vocalists (Julie Driscoll, Karen Mantler) and jazz septet (Gato Barbieri on tenor, Michael Mantler on trumpet and trombone, Howard Johnson on clarinets, saxophones and tuba, Toni Marcus on violin and viola, Dave Holland on bass and cello, Carla Bley on piano and organ, Paul Motian on percussion), but the stylistic excursion was no less breathtaking, from the What Will Be Left Between Us and the Moon Tonight? to Indonesian Dock Sucking Supreme to Song of the Jungle Stream. Hotel Overture, Rawalpindi Blues and the closing And It's Again. Most of the pieces were brief, like a lattice of morphing ideas, except for In a way that had not been tried before in jazz music. The singers ranged from country star Linda Ronstadt to avantgarde vocalist Jeanne Lee.īley's score, spanning jazz, electronic, rock and Indian music, was of Jack's Traveling Band consisted of Carla Bley on organ and the power-trio of John McLaughlin (guitar), Jack Bruce (bass) and Paul Motian (drums).įinally, the "silent music" was performed by Michael Mantler on prepared piano, Don Preston on synthesizer and Carla Bley on organ, celeste and calliope. The Original Hotel Amateur Band comprised Bley (piano), Mantler (valve trombone), Motian (drums), Michael Snow (trumpet), Howard Johnson (tuba), Perry Robinson and Peggy Imig (clarinets), Nancy Newton (viola), Richard Youngstein (bass). The Desert Band featured Bley (organ), Don Cherry (trumpet), Souren Baronia (clarinet), Leroy Jenkins (violin), Calo Scott (cello), Sam Brown (guitar), Ron McClure (bass) and Motian (percussion). The Orchestra proper (and Hotel Lobby Band) was a 19-piece unit with Carla Bley (piano), Jimmy Lyons (alto saxophone), Gato Barbieri (tenor saxophone), Chris Woods (baritone saxophone), Michael Mantler and Enrico Rava (trumpets), Roswell Rudd, Sam Burtis and Jimmy Knepper (trombones), Jack Jeffers (bass trombone), Bob Carlisle and Sharon Freeman (French horns), John Buckingham (tuba), Nancy Newton (viola), Karl Berger (vibraphone), Charlie Haden (bass), Paul Motian (drums), Roger Dawson (congas), Bill Morimando (bells, celeste). The large orchestra was actually structured in Perhaps these contradictions were precisely what made her music so uniqueīley topped everything she had done so far with the colossal three-LP jazz operaĮscalator Over The Hill (june 1971), the result of three years of recordings, one of the greatest albums in the Her compositional ambitions clearly collided with the aesthetic of free-jazz,Īlthough she displayed an ideological affinity with free jazz. Her public image was quite schizophrenic, on one hand a living advertisement for the bohemian lifestyle of the hippie generation, on the other hand an austere The whole of Gary Burton's A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967)Īnd most of Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra (1969),īy the end of the decade, she could vie for the title of greatest living ![]() Those collaborations would have been enough to establish her as a major figure In between those albums, Mike Mantler on trumpet, Steve Lacy on soprano saxophone, Carla Bley on piano and two bassists recorded Jazz Realities (january 1966), including Bley's Oni Puladi (the habanera Ida Lupino played in reverse). Jazz Composers' Orchestra (june 1968), obtaining immense The Jazz Composers' Orchestra, that debuted Mantler and Bley formed a large star-studded jazz orchestra, She left Paul Bley for trumpeter Michael Mantler in 1965. Ida Lupino and Syndrome on Turning Point (1964), She became her husband's main composer, penning:įloater and King Korn on Footloose (1963), White Oakland-born pianist Carla Borg (1938) married Paul Bley in 1957 and movedīent Eagle for George Russell's Stratusphunk (1960)Īnd Ictus for Jimmy Giuffre's Thesis (1961), Michael Mantler - Carla Bley (1975), 7/10Īrmadillo World Headquarters Austin Texas (2018), 5/10 Michael Mantler: Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968), 8.5/10Ĭharlie Haden: Liberation Music Orchestra (1969), 8/10 ![]() Gary Burton: Genuine Tong Funeral (1967), 8.5/10 ( Copyright © 2006 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use) ![]() Carla Bley: biography, discography, review, ratings
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