Search results for "Carla Bley"

Carla Bley: United States (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

“Very big.” Now that is an understatement. Very big in size, sound, attitude and subtlety. Bley's composition seems t...

Carla Bley & Paul Haines: Rawalpindi Blues (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music April 06, 08

Escalator Over the Hill, an epic jazz-rock opera, was probably pretentious in 1971, and is definitely pretentious now...

Charlie Haden: Ida Lupino (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 06, 08

The 1989 Montreal Jazz Festival honored the career of bassist Charlie Haden by inviting him to lead a different group...

Carla Bley: Ad Infinitum (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 27, 07

Here we have a Carla Bley composition being given its third context. “Ad Infinitum” first appeared on her essential, ...

Carla Bley: Utviklingssang (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 21, 08

"Evolution Song," in the language of her Swedish ancestors, was penned by Carla Bley for the great band she had at th...

Carla Bley and Her Remarkable Big Band: Awful Coffee (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music August 29, 08

Carla Bley evokes the Swing Era on this up-tempo jump tune, which features wonderful, idiomatically incorrect solos b...

Carla Bley & Her Remarkable Big Band: Appearing Nightly At The Black Orchid (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music September 13, 08

I used to have this theory about Carla Bley's hair. It was formulated right around the time that her first Very Big B...

Jack Bruce (featuring Carla Bley): Spirit (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music February 07, 09

One of the more intriguing forays into rock by a jazz musician was Carla Bley's brief membership in Jack Bruce's band...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WHEN JAZZ CATS MEET ROCKERS

Jazz musicians performing sidemen roles on recording dates of non-jazz performances is a practice nearly as old as ja...

Carla Bley: One Banana (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music September 13, 08

With Carla Bley tunes, it's always about cleverly constructed compositions, and "One Banana" is no exception. She use...

Liberation Music Orchestra: America the Beautiful (Medley: America the Beautiful/Lift Every Voice and Sing/Skies of A... (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music April 22, 09

"Oh beautiful for spacious skies," but post-9/11 the skies of America seemed less safe; and the honorably intended "N...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MUSICAL AMERICANA

         Jazz Americana, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Shortly ...

Charlie Haden: Too Late (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 06, 08

This 1983 release is the first reunion of the Liberation Music Orchestra, Haden's influential large ensemble that rel...

Charlie Haden: War Orphans (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

In 1969, even though Charlie Haden & Co. were clearly staunch opponents of the Vietnam War, the Liberation Music Orch...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MODERN BIG BANDS

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Michael Franks: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music May 29, 08

Jazz to the World is my favorite Christmas CD. I like jazz and I like Christmas. Lots of times these hybrid holiday "...

Charlie Haden: Song for Ché (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 21, 09

Charlie Haden’s distinction is his unmatched ability to use the precise intonation and note choice to wring human emo...

Paul Bley: Seven (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

A profoundly beautiful composition by Carla Bley, brought to life patiently and selflessly by Paul Bley, John Surman,...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AARON PARKS SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL PAUL BLEY TRACKS

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Paul Bley: Batterie (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 17, 08

Carla Bley has had a career-long flair for writing theatrical pieces that sometimes sound like they should accompany ...

Paul Bley: Syndrome (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 04, 07

The words "lyrical" and "Free Jazz" rarely appear in the same context. Indeed, perhaps only in a Paul Bley review. An...

Paul Bley: Walking Woman (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

Vicious. That's the word. With Eddie Gomez and Milford Graves holding down the low end, Sun Ra's not-so-secret weapon...

Paul Bley: Closer (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

Solo jazz piano was a lost art during the 1960s. Most of the leading keyboardists of the era preferred to work in a ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ECM - THE FIRST DECADE

The ECM record label, founded by Manfred Eicher in 1969, continues to expand our musical horizons after almost four d...

Paul Bley: Closer (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

A masterpiece. Bley starts by creating these crystalline sound structures which hang uncertainly in the air and grad...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AARON PARKS SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL PAUL BLEY TRACKS

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