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"Escalator Over The Hill" by The New School Studio Orchestra and Vocal Ensemble

by Paul Reynolds
May 8, 2025

The New School Studio Orchestra and Vocal Ensemble The Tishman Auditorium at The New School “Escalator Over The Hill" New York, NY May 2, 2025 Ask greying jazz-rock fans about long-lost projects they never saw live and Escalator Over The Hill by Carla Bley is likely to come up. Released as a triple album in 1971, Bley's wonky operatic creation --"A chronotransduction," in her lingo--has barely been performed, save for a 1998 tour of ...