Carla Bley
Live!
WATT (Germany) 1982
WATT/12 (LP) Gatefold sleeve.
sleeve : EX(some slightly wear on side)
media : EX+/EX+(some slightly noise)
Released in 1982, this album is by American pianist and composer Carla Bley, who co-founded the Jazz Composers Orchestra Association with her husband Michael Mantler and made an immense contribution to the jazz world through efforts such as protecting musicians from commercial exploitation. The album documents a 1981 performance at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco with a nine-piece ensemble featuring Michael Mantler on trumpet, Tony Dagradi on tenor saxophone, Steve Swallow on bass, and others. This is superb contemporary big-band jazz, transforming the respect for early jazz that had increasingly characterized Bley’s music since the late 1970s through her singular compositional vision. Her gospel-like organ playing on A2 and B3 is also outstanding. German pressing in a gatefold sleeve.
B1: Still in the Room
B3: Song Sung Long