Carla Bley
Studio 104 de la Maison de la Radio
Paris, France
March 16th 1982
This is a fabulous FM broadcast.
Carla has a shit-hot band including Michael Mantler on trumpet.
Quirky jazz with a sense of humour.
Mostly instrumental but when they sing it is excellent.
I'm addicted to The Internationale with it's Tower-of-Babelesqueness.
Carla wrote all the music on Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports:
I strongly recommend that, somewhat ignored, album
which also has Robert Wyatt on vocals.
Just because it isn't Floydy doesn't mean it's crap.
regards
Titus
Disc 1
01 Blunt Object
02 Egyptian
03 Major
04 Still in the Room
05 band intros/Time and Us
06 The Piano Lesson
07 The Lord is Listenin' to Ya, Hallelujah!
Disc 2
01 King Korn
02 A New Hymn
03 8½
04 The Internationale
05 I Hate to Sing
excellent titus, thanks! and agreed: Fictitious Sports is excellent.
ReplyDeletethere's a berklee (boston) NPR FM broadcast from 1980-03-12 that's excellent that features much of the mason album, and includes a great interview where carla talks about her interest in rock music...disinterest in jazz (except for older music), life on the road...
another rec: paul bley improvisie - with carla and drum monster han bennink. paul plays an analogue synth exclusively on this LP...likely the weirdest thing bley ever recorded.
cheers, mikeL
ps:yes superb sound on this...thanks again!
ReplyDeletemikeL
That sounds interesting...do you have a copy Mike?
ReplyDeleteof the NPR broadcast
ReplyDeletei got it here:
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one of 3 links still good
was unable to email last night as i don't have a google account
mikeL
Cheers Mike. I found a copy anyway
Deletethank you
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