Mastodawn

Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
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Aaro Koskinen Nov 7

"The Jazz Composer's Orchestra" by #MichaelMantler.

This is a nice blend of "orchestral music" and free jazz soloing. The orchestral textures are similar to his later work, but what really makes this album to stand out is that free jazz chaos. And what a lineup!

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Andi Chorley Jun 5, 2025

13 3/4 by Micheal Mantler / Carla Bley released on Watt in 1975.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

"After sleeping in separate beds, so to speak, in the first two WATT releases, Carla Bley and Michael Mantler share a marquee for the label’s third. The program here is bipartite, sporting one composition by each in a resolutely multi-dimensional form of jazz that pairs Bley’s piano with orchestral forces.

Mantler’s 13 is a morose dive into some light-starved chambers of nature. Sounding like a storm turned into a symphony, it has the climatic features of rain and hail...

Bley’s 3/4 is just as distinctly her own, though its breadth of vision may be compared to the classical hybrids of Keith Jarrett (who, incidentally, gave this piece’s premiere)..."

https://ecmreviews.com/2020/04/19/michael-mantler-carla-bley-13-3-4-watt-3/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcouHjCuLmc

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