Carla Bley

Carla Bley : Looking for America


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In a year of patriotism run riot, leave it to composer, pianist, and bandleader Carla Bley to take a look for the heart of what makes it tick -- and what it means to be an Americanski. The Bley Big Band hadn't been around for a while, and this outing is a welcome return. Featuring soloists Lew Soloff, Gary Valente, the remarkable Andy Sheppard, and Wolfgang Puschnig, this most Yankee band goes through the mysterious humor of Bley's sense of irony, harmony, and history to find out where the soul of America lies: in its music, its humor, its over-inflated vision of itself, its funkiness, its innovation, its blindness and crass gift for overstatement, or all of the above. Here, the nearly 22-minute "National Anthem" (comprised of a suite of short pieces with titles such as "OG Can UC?," "Whose Broad Stripes?," "Keep It Spangled," etc.) quotes from America's musical past, including "America the Beautiful," both football and military marches (is there a difference?), swing tunes, Dixieland, pop, and country & western, to state with verve that America is best viewed through the lens of a telescope. "Fast Lane" relies on a hard swinging bebop melodic figure to kick its reed and wind heavy harmonics into gear. The rhythm section chops it down and builds it up again as the horns play startling counterpoint. There are four tracks with the word "mother" in them, and all feature various aspects of that eternal mother Lady Liberty as well as moms everywhere. In "Los Cocineros" and "Tijuana Traffic," you have to wonder which way the American tide is flowing, to or from South of the borderline. Song figures worthy of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass meet complex Cuban and mariachi rhythms and harmonics in intervallic motions of line and impression. The set ends with the most bluesed-out read of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" in the history of American popular music. Soloff plays the grit and sweat in both the blues and the barnyard with his opening statement. Stan Kenton would have been proud of this arrangement with its funky rhythmic structure, interwoven solos, and bassline harmonic architecture that expands as the tune goes. Looking for America is a fun, innovative, and indefatigable album by one of the true geniuses in modern jazz. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Song Title
1. Grand Mother 0:54
2. The National Anthem: OG Can UC?/ Flags/ Whose Broad Stripes?/ Anthem/ Keep It Spangled 21:48
3. Step Mother 3:18
4. Fast Lane 5:16
5. Los Cocineros 10:58
6. Your Mother 1:40
7. Tijuana Traffic 8:06
8. God Mother 1:27
9. Old MacDonald Had A Farm 6:17

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Carla Bley - Fancy Chamber Music (1998)




MP3 CBR @ 320kbps - 120MB | 50 min | Cover
Label : ECM | Genre : Jazz | Realease : 1998

Carla Bley has always been a composer of great precision, examining and elaborating subtle nuances with fine detail. It therefore comes as no surprise
that she recorded this set of six compositions for a small ensemble of primarily classical-based players. Starting with several commissioned pieces
already written, she completed additional work and then recorded the album in London during a tour and musical residency.

European traditions have empowered much of Bley's work and do so again here. Her scoring for strings eschews the wit usually associated with her
more jazz-based work. "End Of Vienna" is a stirring nine-minute melancholic reverie. "Tigers In Training" (at 19 minutes, the longest work on the album)
boldly melds percussion into the mix, creating an undulating tapestry that more than deserves its duration.

Recorded at Snake Ranch Studios, London, England on December 5 & 6, 1997. Includes liner notes by Phillip Norris, Carla Bley.


TRACKLIST
1. Wolfgang Tango
2. Romantic Notion #4
3. End Of Vienna
4. Tigers In Training
5. Romantic Notion #6
6. JonBenet


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