Carla Bley Selected Recordings
Carla Bley piano, organ Don Alias percussion Julian Argüelles baritone saxophone Gato Barbieri tenor saxophone Guy Barker trumpet Daniel Beaussier oboe Emma Black cello Paul Bley piano Hiram Bullock tuba Andrew Byrt viola Don Cherry pocket trumpet Tony Dagradi tenor saxophone Joe Daley euphonium Claude Deppa trumpet Richard Edwards trombone Sharon Freeman french horn Jimmy Giuffre clarinet Larry Goldings organ Charlie Haden double-bass, vocalist Alison Hayhurst flute Roger Jannotta soprano saxophone Jack Jeffers trombone Frank Lacy french horn Christof Lauer tenor saxophone Sara Lee clarinet Victor Lewis drums Jimmy Lyons alto saxophone Dennis Mackrel drums Karen Mantler organ
Baseball
Major
End of Vienna
Chicken
On The Stage In Cages
Fleur Carnivore
More Brahms
Walking Batteriewoman
Silence
Why
Ictus
Recordings 1961-1999
rarumECM 8015

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“This collection contains samples from almost all of my life’s musical efforts, starting with recent albums and going back, with a few selections from ECM releases of my work by other artists, to the early sixties.” This is the :rarum disc that reaches the furthest into history as Carla’s “Ictus” is played by Jimmy Giuffre’s 1961 trio: this was music that laid the groundwork for the “chamber jazz” ECM would later explore more extensively. There is music with the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra and with the Liberation Music Orchestra, and with Carla’s large and small ensembles as documented on WATT, and no shortage of star soloists… 
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