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Looking for America

Label: Watt/ECM
Released: 2003
Track listing: Grand Mother; The National Anthem; Step Mother; Fast Lane; Los Cocineros; Your Mother; Tijuana Traffic; God Mother; Old MacDonald Had A Farm.

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The Carla Bley Big Band: Looking for America

Read "Looking for America" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Carla Bley is the love child of Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, and Charles Ives. But still, that does not seem to tell the whole story. Born into a musical family, pre-war, on the West Coast, Bley naturally became a musician and spent a good deal of time in church to boot. The latter of these biographical ...

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The Carla Bley Big Band: Looking for America

Read "Looking for America" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Composer / pianist Carla Bley, a Californian who has traveled all over the world playing her music, has devoted her latest album to Looking for America, an enormous undertaking by any measure. As a reviewer, my quest is far less ambitious; I am looking only for exciting big-band jazz that swings. I hope she had better ...


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