Carla Bley

[Late]

Carla Bley tribute/cover album. I'd never heard of Lluís Vidal. 

Check out Vidal's version of "Ida Lupino" in particular. Interesting spin.

[Niko]

Nothing to do with Bley, but Vidal is the pianist on one of my favorite albums, the sole quartet Album of guitarist Sean Levitt

[T.D.]

4 hours ago, Late said:

Carla Bley tribute/cover album. I'd never heard of Lluís Vidal. 

Check out Vidal's version of "Ida Lupino" in particular. Interesting spin.

Thanks. That is indeed interesting. Even though it's a pretty radical deconstruction of the tune. I'm going to listen to the whole album.

[Patrick]

I’m also a fan of a fairly recent CB tribute by Ben Allison, Steve Cardenas, and Ted Nash. https://stevecardenas.bandcamp.com/album/healing-power-the-music-of-carla-bley
 

Ben discusses it a bit here:

 

[JSngry]

 

[T.D.]

Thanks. Reminds me in some ways of the tune (from her last recording?) you included in a recent BFT. I should get more familiar with the (both?) album(s).

[JSngry]

4 albums by that trio, this one-off chamber album, and some big-band albums. They all show her continued growth,as a composer.

And if, like maybe a lot of people (myself included), you sorta stopped paying attention after a certain point, there are plenty of delightful examples that you were wrong for that. Very wrong.

Love it when that happens!

[Dub Modal]

15 hours ago, JSngry said:

 

Nice tune. And interesting that it was released in Europe via ECM but it wasn't recorded or mixed by Eicher, nor were his studios used. 

[JSngry]

There was a long history with Bley/Mantler and Eicher. Their New Music Distribution Service provided ECM with their first real American outlet, and Eicher never forgot the favor.

NMDS was a wonderful thing for so much music and musicians. Check it out:

https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/carla-bley-new-music-distribution-service/

[gvopedz]

9 minutes ago, JSngry said:

There was a long history with Bley/Mantler and Eicher. Their New Music Distribution Service provided ECM with their first real American outlet, and Eicher never forgot the favor.

NMDS was a wonderful thing for so much music and musicians. Check it out:

https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/carla-bley-new-music-distribution-service/

I remember receiving those NMDS catalogs in the mail and reading them from cover to cover.

[Dub Modal]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

There was a long history with Bley/Mantler and Eicher. Their New Music Distribution Service provided ECM with their first real American outlet, and Eicher never forgot the favor.

NMDS was a wonderful thing for so much music and musicians. Check it out:

https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/carla-bley-new-music-distribution-service/

Great article. Thanks - edit to add that their discussion on distribution was really interesting as it was true insider info. 

[JSngry]

Hard to imagine it today, but ECM was really an "outsider" label in its earliest days. The availability that NMDS provided them was so crucial to their eventual success.