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WATT Records
WATT Records was a record label, recording studio, and music publisher founded by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler in May 1973. WATT was distributed by ECM Records. Bley and Mantler also set up New Music Distribution Service to promote WATT and new music. Discography Source: References {{Reflist External links Discogs - WATT Records American jazz record labels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Bley
Carla Bley (born Lovella May Borg; May 11, 1936 – October 17, 2023) was an American jazz composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader. An important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, she gained acclaim for her jazz opera ''Escalator over the Hill'' (released as a triple LP set), as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell (composer), George Russell, Art Farmer, Robert Wyatt, John Scofield, and her ex-husband Paul Bley. She was a pioneer in the development of independent artist-owned record labels, and recorded over two dozen albums between 1966 and 2019. Early life Bley was born in Oakland, California, in 1936, to Swedish parents. Her father, Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church choirmaster, encouraged her to sing and to learn to play the piano; her mother, Arline Anderson, died of a heart attack when Bley was eight years old. After giving up church to immerse herself in rolle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night-Glo
''Night-Glo'' is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley, with bassist Steve Swallow, recorded and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1985.Carla Bley discography accessed August 5, 2010 accessed August 25, 2016 Reception The review by Richard S. Ginell deemed the album "a relaxed, easygoing, easy-listening series of compositions that nearly spills over into fuzak... Bley permits the lazy pina-colada mood to amble undisturbed from track to track".Ginell, R. S.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Looking For America (album)
''Looking for America'' is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in 2002 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 2003.Carla Bley discography accessed August 12, 2010 Reception The review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "''Looking for America'' is a fun, innovative, and indefatigable album by one of the true geniuses in modern jazz".Jurek, T. accessed August 12, 2010 The '' |
4x4 (Carla Bley Album)
''4 x 4'' is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley with a chamber ensemble recorded in Oslo in 1999 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 2000.Carla Bley discography accessed August 12, 2010 Reception The review by David R. Adler awarded the album 3 stars and stated "This batch of compositions is informed by Bley's distinctive brand of tongue-in-cheek playfulness... While the entire eight-piece band is consistently a pleasure, some of the album's most appealing moments occur during several Bley/Swallow duet passages. The two have been performing and recording as a duo for many years, so in a certain sense the whole band seems to ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Are We There Yet? (Carla Bley Album)
''Are We There Yet?'' is a live album of duets by American composer, arranger, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley and bassist Steve Swallow recorded in Europe in 1998 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1999.Carla Bley discography accessed August 12, 2010 It is the pair's third duet recording following '' Duets'' (1988) and '' Go Together'' (1992). Reception The review by David R. Adler awarded the album 4 stars and state ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fancy Chamber Music
''Fancy Chamber Music'' is an album by the American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley, recorded in England in 1997 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1998.Carla Bley discography accessed August 12, 2010 accessed August 25, 2016 Reception The review by Tim Sheridan stated: "Always the iconoclast, here pianist Bley applies her keen musical skill on baroque and chamber styles with tongue firmly in cheek and a fine string section to set the mood".Sheridan, T. |
The Carla Bley Big Band Goes To Church
''The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church'' is a live album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in Perugia, Italy as part of the Umbria Jazz Festival and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1996.Carla Bley discography accessed August 12, 2010 Reception The review by Stacia Proefrock awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "''The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church'' is a perfect showcase for the forward-thinking compositions and arrangements of Carla Bley... Not quite as experimental as her earlier compositions, this album manages, regardless to be among her best work in the '90s".Proefrock, S. |
Songs With Legs
''Songs with Legs'' is a live album by the American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley with the saxophonist Andy Sheppard and the bass guitarist Steve Swallow recorded in Europe and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1994. Retrieved August 9, 2010. ECM/WATT discography Retrieved August 25, 2016. Reception The '''' review by Alex Henderson awarded the album 2½ stars and said, "For those who've said they wish Bley would solo more often, ''Songs with Legs'' is an album to hear."Henderson, A.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Band Theory
''Big Band Theory'' is an album by the American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley, recorded and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1993.Carla Bley discography accessed August 9, 2010 Reception The review by stated that "overall this set (which is enjoyable enough) is less memorable than one would expect from Carla Bley".Yanow, S. accessed August 9, 2010[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Swallow
Steve Swallow (born October 4, 1940) is an American jazz bassist and composer, known for his collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton, and Carla Bley. He was one of the first jazz double bassists to switch entirely to electric bass guitar. Biography Born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, United States, Swallow studied piano and trumpet, as a child, before turning to the double bass at the age of 14. While attending a prep school, he began trying his hand in jazz improvisation. In 1960, he left Yale University, where he was studying composition, and settled in New York City, playing at the time in Jimmy Giuffre's trio along with Paul Bley. After joining Art Farmer's quartet in 1963, Swallow began to write. It is in the 1960s that his long-term association with Gary Burton's various bands began. In the early 1970s, Swallow switched exclusively to electric bass guitar, of which he prefers the five-string variety. He was first introduced to the electric bass while doing a music trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go Together
''Go Together'' is an album of duets by the American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley and bassist Steve Swallow, recorded and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1993.Carla Bley discography accessed August 9, 2010 accessed August 25, 2016 It is the pair's second duet recording following '' Duets'' (1988). Reception The review by |
The Very Big Carla Bley Band
''The Very Big Carla Bley Band'' is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley released on the Watt/ECM label in 1991.Carla Bley discography accessed August 9, 2010 accessed August 25, 2016 Reception The review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album stars and stated "The result is a fairly solid, if slightly bland, date that may cause the listener to pine for her earlier "excesses"... in the end, Bley's themes and structures tend more toward the competent than the stirring or memorable, l ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
