CD ECM Records Carla Bley And Her Remarkable Big Band: Appearing Nightly

2008

Carla Bley - pian, dirijor
Lew Soloff - trompeta
Earl Gardner - trompeta
Giampaolo Casati - trompeta
Florian Esch - trompeta
Gary Valente - trombon
Beppe Calamosca - trombon
Gigi Grata - trombon
Richard Henry - trombon
Roger Jannotta - saxofon sopran si tenor, flaut
Wolfgang Puschnig - saxofon alto, flaut
Andy Sheppard - saxofon tenor
Christophe Panzani - saxofon tenor
Julian Argüelles - saxofon bariton
Karen Mantler - orga
Steve Swallow - bas
Billy Drummond - tobe

“Carla Bley and Her Remarkable Big Band” – as it says on the cover - recorded live at Paris’s famous New Morning club in a set of new but nostalgically-inflected material. “We couldn’t bring back the past, but this was a chance to pay our respects to the wonderful big bands and great American songwriters that dominated American popular music in the first half of the 20th century”. Warm and witty playing by all of Bley’s cast in charts that bear out Nat Hentoff’s judgement: “Her scores for big jazz bands are matched only by those of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus for yearning lyricism, explosive exultation and other expressions of the human condition.”

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Jazzman - Événement

Appearing Nightly is the latest soulful big band effort from one of the wittiest composers in the genre. The album … retrofits an image of old-fashioned nightclub glamour with flickers of good-natured irony.
Nate Chinen, The New York Times

Any appearance of eccentricity of personality or style masks a mind honed to razor-edged perfection. Bley knows a thing or more about tunes and how to build them to almighty crescendos, how to lend them sardonic wit and wry humour and how to move your body as well as your mind. … A fine record. Put it on your Xmas list now.
Duncan Heining, Jazzwise