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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