| Steve Swallow Ecm/watt music Real Book CD (1993)
$15.55 The album's title plays off the concept of the "fakebook," a collection of standards frequently found on the stands of pick-up musicians, and this set evokes the feeling of the familiar. From the bluesy "Second Hand Motion" to the Caribbean-inflected
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| Carla Bley Ecm/watt CDs 4 X 4 CD (2000)
$15.55 The eight players on board include four horns (trumpet, trombone, and alto and tenor saxophones), organ bass, drums, and Bley herself on piano. 4X4 is Carla Bley's attempt to create music for a sort of stripped-down big band.
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| Carla Bley Ecm/watt Records Looking For America CD (2003)
$14.79 LOOKING FOR AMERICA was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.
With an unlikely amalgam of influences including Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, Oliver Nelson, Charles Ives, and Woodstock-fatback-groove, Carla Bley's musical palette is a quirky and
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| Carla Bley Ecm/watt music Big Band Theory CD (1993)
$15.55 BIG BAND THEORY was nominated for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.
This 1993 set debuts three new compositions by Carla Bley as well as her arrangement of Charles Mingus's "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." BIG BAND
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| Carla Bley Ecm/watt CDs Escalator Over The Hill CDs (1971)
$49.35 ESCALATOR OVER THE HILL is a jazz/rock musical. Included with the 2 discs are complete cast personnel listings, script and black and white photographs.
Orchestra (& Hotel Lobby Band): Carla Bley (piano); Jimmy Lyons (alto saxophone); Gato Barbieri (tenor saxophone); Chris
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| Carla Bley Ecm/watt music Live! CD (2000) Germany
$37.25 This is a live set recorded in 1981 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Much of this same band also recorded the half-live I HATE TO SING album at the same venue a few years later.
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| Carla Bley Ecm/watt Records Fancy Chamber Music CD (1998)
$15.55 It therefore comes as no surprise that she recorded this set of six compositions for a small ensemble of primarily classical-based players. Carla Bley has always been a composer of great precision, examining and elaborating subtle nuances with fine detail.
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| Carla Bley / Andy Sheppard / Steve Swallow Ecm/watt CDs Songs With Legs CD (1995)
$15.55 Recorded live in France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Turkey and England in May 1994.
SONGS WITH LEGS was recorded live in Europe in '94 and, though billed collectively, is ostensibly the work of Carla Bley's. Saxophonist Andy Sheppard has been on all
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| Carla Bley Ecm/watt music Go Together CD (1992)
$15.55 This is the second album of duets from this piano and bass playing pair, following 1988's DUETS. As with the early offering, an easy rapport between Bley and Swallow (attributable to their long professional and personal relationship) lends this album
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| Carla Bley Ecm/watt Records Very Big Carla Bley Band CD (1991)
$15.55 The "very big"
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