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Five Banana - The Music of Carla Bley

Carl Zinsius

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Duration: 00:48:43
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Tracks

Five Banana; Three Blind Mice; Donkey; Ida Lupino; Ad Infinitum; Sad Song; Jesus Maria; Real Life Hits; King Korn; Dreams So Real.

Personnel

Album Description

In January 2024, the The Carl Zinsius Project presents its debut album "Five Banana - The music of Carla Bley". On it, the five musicians interpret the repertoire of composer Carla Bley with great curiosity, joy of playing and open ears. The US-American Bley, who died in October 2023, is certainly one of the most important jazz composers of our time. Bley wrote pieces for the pianist & her first husband Paul Bley as early as the 1960s and thus became part of the avant-garde jazz movement. As conductor & arranger for Charlie Haden's "Liberation Music Orchestra", composer of the jazz opera "Escalator Over The Hill", founder of her own label and leading woman in a male domain, Bley has always been a role model without equal. On "Five Banana", strange & humorous compositions meet beautiful, simple yet surprising melodies and give an insight into the work of this unique composer. A program in the field of tension between jazz, avant-garde and gospel with the typical Bley wink.

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