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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Carla Bley - Austin 1978 (re-up)

One of the links wasn't there any longer, so I'm putting it up anew here! Make sure to check out the other two Carla Bley shows I posted:
Chateauvallon 1977
Paris 1980

Here's a smoking hot show by the great Carla Bley. Sound isn't stellar, but believe me, the music is! Phillip Wilson is kicking on the traps, and the horns are quite a bunch of greats: Carla Bley. Sound isn't stellar, but believe me, the music is! Phillip Wilson is kicking on the traps, and the horns are quite a bunch of greats: Gary Windo (going apeshit, of course...), John Clark and George Lewis, Bob Stewart, Mike Mantler and Alan Braufman. Swallow hadn't arrived at this point (or was he just not available? I don't know the history of the Bleys/Peacocks/Mantlers/Hadens/Swallows - quite a bunch of great gals and guys who were involved quite, uhm, deeply, it seems...), instead we get one Patty Price (no trace I found on google). Also keyboardist Blue Gene Tyranny (what a name!) is a total unknown to me as well.


Carla Bley Band 1977 (l.t.r. standing: Bob Stewart, Terry Adams, Mike Mantler, Roswell Rudd, Hugh Hopper, Andrew Cyrille, Elton Dean, sitting: Carla Bley, John Clarke, Gary Windo)
[Photo from inside of European Tour CD]


Carla Bley
Austin, TX (USA), Armadillo World HQ
March 27, 1978


Carla Bley - piano, organ, arrangements
Mike Mantler - trumpet
John Clark - french horn
George Lewis - trombone
Bob Stewart - tuba
Alan Braufman - alto sax
Gary Windo - tenor sax
Blue Gene Tyranny - keyboards
Patty Preiss - bass
Phillip Wilson - drums

1. 440 (12:01)
2. Ida Lupino (8:57)
3. Drum-Solo > Jesus Maria & Other Spanish Strains (11:59)
4. Drinking Music (5:40)
5. unknown [encore] > band intros/radio outro (15:01) [spliced at 8:46]

Compositions by Carla Bley

TT: 53:43

Sound: A-

Lineage: no info (fm)
Additional Lineage: FLAC > WAV > GoldWave (editing) > FLAC (8)(asb)

Note: either Braufman or Windo can also be heard on flute

6 comments:

ubu said...

FLAC

http://rapidshare.com/files/300660293/Carla_Bley_1978-03-27_Austin.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/125683905/Carla_Bley_1978-03-27_Austin.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/125685525/Carla_Bley_1978-03-27_Austin.part3.rar

8mmbolex said...

"instead we get one Patty Price (no trace I found on google)"- I believe that is because "Price" is spelled: PREISS - check it out: http://www.pattipreiss.com/home.html

ubu said...

Hmm, so she's a pianist?
Who's on bass then?
Swallow?

I haven't played the show for a while, don't know if there are band intros in there anywhere...

ubu said...

ah no, sorry - found this on the bio on her website (it's well-hidden there, for it's about her musical beginnings, it seems):

"Patti began her professonal career as a bassist, performing in Europe and North America with the Carla Bley Jazz Orchestra; she switched to piano in 1980."

So only the spelling is wrong, but the rest is correct then!

8mmbolex said...

yes! (i guess it's also patti with an 'i") great post! it seems she plays many local gigs in what must be her home: connecticut. i'm going to try to catch her one of these days.

hulaboy said...

Thanks for making this available again, Ubu. I'd regretted missing it.