Carla Bley & The Jazz Composer's Orchestra — Escalator Over the Hill: A Chronotransduction by Carla Bley & Paul Haines

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Pianist and composer Carla Bley’s earliest leader projects were under the auspices of the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, a unit she co-founded in 1965 with trumpeter and then-husband Michael Mantler. Her Mantler-produced 1971 epic <i>Escalator Over the Hill</i> is like nothing else of the period: An abstract jazz opera with libretto by poet and lyricist Paul Haines, and a cast including giants of free improvisation, fusion and what came to be called world music. The vocal line-up grabs one’s attention, featuring Jack Bruce (of Cream and The Tony Williams Lifetime) in one of the most prominent roles; Linda Ronstadt as the character Ginger, singing “Why” and “Doctor Why”; Don Preston (of The Mothers of Invention) on “Like Animals” and “End of Animals”; the great vocal improviser Jeanne Lee on “End of Rawalpindi”; the exploratory bebop-rooted virtuoso Sheila Jordan on “Holiday in Risk”; and even Bley and Mantler’s then four-year-old daughter, Karen Mantler, on the title track. (The kid, growing up fast, returned to sing “Funnybird Song” on the smaller-scale 1974 follow-up <i>Tropic Appetites</i>, another work with Haines.) Five different line-ups are heard in this “chronotransduction”, as Bley and Haines termed it, including the Hotel Lobby Band, Jack’s Travelling Band, the Desert Band, the Original Hotel Amateur Band and a trio playing “Phantom Music”. The orchestration is texturally rich and ever-changing, with soloists including the Argentinian tenor shredder Gato Barbieri; violinist and AACM visionary Leroy Jenkins; guitar hero John McLaughlin (of Miles Davis and the Mahavishnu Orchestra) destroying on “Rawalpindi Blues”; trumpeter Don Cherry (of Ornette Coleman fame) on “A.I.R. All India Radio”; Italian trumpet master Enrico Rava; and the iconic rhythm partners Charlie Haden and Paul Motian on bass and drums—with Motian doubling on the Egyptian dumbek, or goblet drum. The quasi-burlesque, absurdist atmosphere of the piece doesn’t take away from its beauty. <i>Escalator Over the Hill</i> did much to establish Bley as a unique and prescient voice in American music.

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Carla Bley & The Jazz Composer's Orchestra

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  1. Hotel Overture 13:11
  2. This Is Here... 5:56
  3. Like Animals 1:21
  4. Escalator Over the Hill 4:52
  5. Stay Awake 1:31
  6. Ginger and David 1:39
  7. Song to Anything That Moves 2:20
  8. Eoth Theme 0:35
  9. Businessmen 5:38
  10. Ginger and David Theme 0:57
  11. Why 2:19
  12. It's Not What You Do 0:15
  13. Detective Writer Daughter 3:16
  14. Doctor Why 1:28
  15. Slow Dance (Transductory Music) 1:50
  16. Smalltown Agonist 5:24
  17. End of Head 0:38
  18. Over Her Head 2:38
  19. Little Pony Soldier 4:36
  20. Oh Say Can You Do? 1:08
  21. Holiday In Risk 3:09
  22. Holiday In Risk Theme 0:47
  23. A.I.R. (All India Radio) 3:55
  24. Rawalpindi Blues 12:41
  25. End of Rawalpindi 9:35
  26. End of Animals 1:26
  27. ...And It's Again 27:17