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Carla Bley Big Band: Appearing Nightly
by C. Michael Bailey
Carla Bley Big Band Appearing Nightly WATT 2008 Bandleader and musical provocateur Carla Bley is the Hector Berlioz of jazz. Her command of her large ensembles is complete and potent. Her composition, arrangement, and adaptation are intelligent with a sophisticated sense of humor. A superb pianist, Bley's true ...
Songs With Legs: Carla Bley, Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard At Birdland, NYC
by Budd Kopman
Carla Bley / Steve Swallow /Andy SheppardBirdlandNew York, NYApril 10, 2008 The Lost Chords is the name of the quartet led by pianist Carla Bley with her partner, bassist Steve Swallow, saxophonist Andy Sheppard and drummer Billy Drummond. The group has recorded The Lost Chords (Watt, 2004) and, with the ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
by Jim Santella
Founded in 2003, Carla Bley's quartet The Lost Chords interprets her music with emotional depth and superior musicianship. By adding guest trumpeter Paolo Fresu for this session, she has stumbled on a formula that emphasizes camaraderie and spirit-sharing. The five artists fuse well together through blues, ballads, lyrical arias and the occasional ruckus. Far from predictable, ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
by Martin Gladu
Is Carla Bley a Naive artist? The commercial exploitation of her works notwithstanding, one finds, in the simplicity and recurrence of themes; progressions and forms; and idiosyncratic style--as well as in the peculiar ponderous feel to much of her compositions, self-trained, instinctive approach to music-making and libertarian personality--many of the same features found in Naive artistry.
The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
By Carla Bley
Label: Watt/ECM
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Banana Quintet: One Banana, Two Banana, Three Banana, Four, Five Banana, One Banana More; Liver of Life; Death of Superman/Dream Sequence #1--Flying; Ad Infinitum.
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu
by AAJ Italy Staff
Era scritto nelle stelle l’incontro tra la gran signora del jazz e il trombettista sardo. Sembrava perlomeno strano che la sofisticata, elegante, sottilmente ambigua scrittura di Carla Bley non avesse ancora incrociato la voce pura, essenziale, ricca di poesia di Paolo Fresu. E alla fine, come raccontato nelle divertenti note di copertina, complice la “soffiata“ del ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
by Budd Kopman
On The Lost Chords Meet Paolo Fresu, Carla Bley has composed music for her quartet, plus the outstanding Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu that is just about the ideal mixture of beauty and intellect. It is almost scandalous to write about a recording and give away its secrets to the unsuspecting listener who, in ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
by John Kelman
Once Carla Bley finds musicians she likes, she sticks with them. Bassist Steve Swallow, also Bley's life partner, dates back with the pianist/composer/bandleader to Musique Mecanique (WATT, 1979). Saxophonist Andy Sheppard first appeared on Bley's classic Fleur Carnivore (WATT, 1989). She's recorded with both on the trio Songs with Legs (WATT, 1995), but it was on ...
The Lost Chords
By Carla Bley
Label: Watt/ECM
Released: 2005
Track listing: 3 Blind Mice: 3 Blind Mice, Wink Leak/Traps/Leonard Feather, The Maze/Blind Mice Redux; Hip Hop; Tropical Depression; Red; Lost Chords: I, II, III.
Carla Bley's Lost Chords at Yoshi's
by Roy Strassman
Carla Bley Yoshi's Oakland, CA September 14, 2005 Last night I slid into Yoshi's a few minutes late and the band was called “out . With seemingly a stellar cast of musicians I was dismayed when the music began with what sounded like a hoaky, low-key bossa nova. ...
