Lunatic creativity and great technical polish are seldom heard in close combination, but Carla Bley's 1978 band had plenty of both, making it a brilliant forum for some of her most playful and challenging compositions. Tenor saxophonist Gary Windo and trombonist Roswell Rudd are the outstanding soloists--Windo an explosive compound of free-jazz wailing and R&B punch, and Rudd the wry and romantic master of every vocal sound effect in the jazz trombone legacy (he literally sings on "At Midnight"). They're matched with consummate sectional players like Michael Mantler on trumpet and John Clark on French horn, as well as unclassifiable musicians like anarchic guitarist Eugene Chadbourne. The opener, with its title reference to concert pitch, is an exercise in tuning, while "Jesus Maria..." is an extended pastiche of most things musically Spanish. The title suite, inspired by a broken musical toy, is the pièce de résistance, complete with erratic interruptions and mechanistic repetition. --Stuart Broomer
Musique Mecanique,Carla Bley Band,Ecm Records,Experimental Big Band,Jazz,Jazz Music,Pop,Post-Bop
Jazz Music:
- New Wave [Original recording remastered] [Import]
- New Wine
- Night Cap [Import]
- No Static At All: An Instrumental Tribute to Steely Dan
- One O'Clock Jump and Other Hits
- Opaque
- Opportunity Please Knock
- Orgasm
- Person to Person
- Purple Violets
Jazz Music
Music: Sings a Song of Mulligan
Tales from the Iron Pillow [Explicit Lyrics]
The Ike & Tina Turner Revue Live [Live]
Selva De Pedra 1972 [Soundtrack] [Import]
The Art of the Song [Soundtrack]