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As a bonus, this set features appearances by many jazz greats-including Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Steve Swallow, and John McLaughlin-who have contributed to Bley's unique vision. While some jazz artists can exude a notable seriousness, Bley is possessed by an impish sense of fun and irreverence-note the endearingly satirical "Baseball" and "More Brahms." But Bley also combines beauty and humor ("Fleur Carnivore," for big band), is more than capable of writing abstract and cerebral ("Ictus"), and mixes art-song with pop and folk ("Why," sung by Linda Ronstadt).

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This edition of the RARUM series presents a fascinating, diverse cross-section of her decade-spanning work, including a tune performed by an early-1960s Jimmy Giuffre Trio. Bley also led groups ranging from trios to orchestras, formed her own record label, and, like Duke Ellington, wrote and arranged in accordance with her collaborators' skills. Live at the Village Vanguard Vol.Without a hint of compromise, pianist Carla Bley-inspired by bebop, jazz's avant-garde, Charles Ives, and Kurt Weill-carved a unparalleled niche for herself by contributing thoughtful compositions to others' bands (Gary Burton, ex-husband Paul Bley, even rockers NRBQ).Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band (1992).It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago (1984).Sam Brown - guitar, Tanganyikan guitar, thumb piano.Bob Northern - French horn, hand wood blocks, crow call, bells, military whistle.Don Cherry - cornet, flute, Indian wood & bamboo flutes (3,5).Dewey Redman - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone.Gato Barbieri - tenor saxophone, clarinet.

"War Orphans" ( Ornette Coleman) – 6:42."The Ending to the First Side" (Bley) – 2:07."Viva la Quince Brigada" ("Long Live the Fifteenth Brigade") (Traditional melody words by Bart Van Derschelling) – 20:58 "Los Cuatro Generales" ("The Four Generals") (Traditional arranged by Bley) "El Quinto Regimiento" ("The Fifth Regiment") (Traditional arranged by Bley)."The Introduction" (Bley) / "Song of the United Front" ( Bertolt Brecht, Hanns Eisler) – 3:07.

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An extremely tight, moving substantial record." Robert Christgau was less impressed in The Village Voice, regarding the album as merely "competent Jazz Composer’s Orchestra style ensemble jazz, full of nice dissonances and not much more".

Lester Bangs' Rolling Stone review stated, "The arrangements by Carla Bley are miracles of dynamics, rising and falling in volume and velocity and the awe-inspiring balance of collective ensembles improvising freely through swellings and contractions of individual voices entering and leaving the mysterious swirling circle of simultaneous songs as diverse as the number of performers yet never lacking in the kind of transporting telepathic unity that makes this multiplicity of musical lines such a far cry from the chaos of the charlatans in other sections of the avant-garde hiding under the mantle of these geniuses. The Liberation Music Orchestra's next album, The Ballad of the Fallen, didn't appear until 1983. In "Circus '68 '69" the musicians are thus divided into two bands in recreation of the events on the convention floor. To me this told the story, in music, of what was happening in our country politically." (Charlie Haden, original liner notes) ' You're a Grand Old Flag' and ' Happy Days Are Here Again' could then be heard trying to stifle 'We Shall Overcome'. Unable to gain control of the floor, the rostrum instructed the convention orchestra to drown out the singing. "After the minority plank on Vietnam was defeated in a vote taken on the convention floor, the California and New York delegations spontaneously began to sing ' We Shall Overcome' in protest.

Other tracks on the album include Ornette Coleman's "War Orphans", which Haden had played with Coleman in 1967, three pieces by Carla Bley, who also contributed much of the arranging, two of Haden's own compositions, one dedicated to Che Guevara and one inspired by the 1968 National Convention of the U.S.

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He included three of those songs on the album (the trilogy "El Quinto Regimiento", "Los Cuatro Generales", and " Viva la Quince Brigada", which are old Spanish folk songs given new words during the war, in that order "El Vito", previously adapted by John Coltrane as “ Olé", "Los Cuatro Muleros", for which Federico García Lorca also wrote lyrics, and "Ay Carmela"). Paul Bley, CM (Novem January 3, 2016) was a jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and ARP synthesizers. Carla Bley Selected Recordings Release date: JanuColor me overjoyed to see a :rarum compilation dedicated to Carla Bley, especially because most of its material does not appear on ECM proper but rather on Bley’s own WATT sublabel. The inspiration for the album came when Haden heard songs from the Spanish Civil War. Liberation Music Orchestra is a band and jazz album by Charlie Haden released in 1970, Haden's first as a band leader.