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Favoriting October 23, 2023: Carla Bley has taken the escalator over the hill.

Newport Jazz Festival 2005

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The amazing Composer /Pianist /Bandleader Carla Bley has taken her final ride. Irene and husband Peter Keepnews pay tribute to Bley through her hugely entertaining and influential music.

Artist Track Album Label Approx. start time
The Carla Bley Band  Spangled Banner Minor and Other Patriotic Songs   Favoriting European Tour 1977  WATT/ECM   

Music behind DJ:
Carla Bley & Steve Swallow 

Romantic Notions #3   Favoriting

Duets 

WATT/ECM 

0:07:32 (Pop-up)
The Very Big Carla Bley Band  Strange Arrangement   Favoriting The Very Big Carla Bley Band  WATT/ECM  0:09:20 (Pop-up)
Bley / Sheppard / Swallow / Drummond  Blind Mice: 1) 3 Blind Mice   Favoriting The Lost Chords  Watt  0:17:02 (Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Band  Musique Mecanique III   Favoriting Musique Mecanique  WATT/ECM  0:22:45 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Carla Bley & Steve Swallow 

Romantic Notions #3   Favoriting

Duets 

WATT/ECM 

0:29:14 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley  Ida Lupino   Favoriting Dinner Music  WATT/ECM  0:34:35 (Pop-up)
NRBQ  Ida   Favoriting NRBQ  Omnivore Recordings  0:44:23 (Pop-up)
Nick Mason (Robert Wyatt, vocals)  I'm a Mineralist   Favoriting Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports    0:44:24 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley / Paul Haines  Rawalpindi Blues   Favoriting Escalator Over The Hill  JCOA Records  0:50:33 (Pop-up)
Tony Williams Lifetime  Vashkar   Favoriting Emergency!  Verve  1:03:18 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Carla Bley & Steve Swallow 

Romantic Notions #3   Favoriting

Duets 

WATT/ECM 

1:08:17 (Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Band  8 1/2   Favoriting Amarcord Nino Rota (I Remember Nino Rota)  Hannibal Records  1:17:01 (Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Band  Misterioso (Monk)   Favoriting That's The Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk  A&M Records  1:28:47 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley / Steve Swallow  Lost in the Stars   Favoriting Are We There Yet?  WATT/ECM  1:37:22 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley, Steve Swallow  Baby Baby   Favoriting Duets  WATT/ECM  1:42:37 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley / Steve Swallow  Sing Me Softly of the Blues   Favoriting Go Together  WATT/ECM  1:49:05 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Carla Bley & Steve Swallow 

Romantic Notions #3   Favoriting

Duets 

WATT/ECM 

1:55:01 (Pop-up)
Paul Bley  Ojos De Gato (Carla Bley)   Favoriting Alone, Again: solo piano  Improvising Artists Inc.  2:03:50 (Pop-up)
George Russell Sextet  Dance Class (Live)   Favoriting at the Five Spot  Verve  2:08:26 (Pop-up)
Gary Burton  Syndrome   Favoriting Generations  Concord Jazz  2:14:42 (Pop-up)
Gary Burton  The Opening; Interlude (Shovels); The Survivors; Grave Train   Favoriting A Genuine Tong Funeral  One Way Records/BMG  2:19:58 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Carla Bley & Steve Swallow 

Romantic Notions #3   Favoriting

Duets 

WATT/ECM 

2:26:37 (Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Big Band  Old MacDonald Had a Farm   Favoriting Looking For America  WATT/ECM  2:33:10 (Pop-up)
Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra  America The Beautiful (Medley)   Favoriting Not in Our Name  Verve  2:39:27 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Carla Bley 

Reactionary Tango   Favoriting

Social Studies 

WATT/ECM 

2:56:26 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  11:57am
Dean:

I heard Alan Broadbent with Harvie S. last night at a piano store in Oakland. Fantastic. He played a gorgeous Fazioli grand. When Charlie Haden's LMO performed at Yoshi's a billion years ago, Broadbent took Carla Bley's place.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Dean @11:57
Glad you caught them-will try to catch them again at the next NYC area gig, dug them the last time I did see them.
Saw Fred Hersch at the Village Vanguard last week, with Miguel Zenon on alto sax, fine set!
And Hi Irene, Peter!
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listener james from westwood:

Morning, Irene and all!
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Summer and Michael and Sylvia:

Good morning-ish, Irene!
  12:01pm
Dean:

Hersch is due to appear at the same venue, as is Denny Zeitlin. Might have to make it to both of those.
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David (in London):

Afternoon Irene and all bespangled Trudelians here gathered: Dean, Doc, James, S&M&S, those yet to Irene.
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WR:

Always more good byes to say.

Hello Irene and drummer streamers.
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Sylvia:

Hello Irene and fellow listeners
  12:03pm
WM:

Yesterday I suggested to Jeff of Destination Out that he dedicate his show to Carla Bley. He referred me to you, so here I am.
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Summer and Michael and Sylvia:

Hi, David!
  12:03pm
Dean:

Broadbent and Harvie S. played as a trio in OC the night before, darn it. Kendall Kay, a drummer with whom AB has worked, sat in for Billy Mintz. Wish I'd known!
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Irene Trudel:

Welcome Dean, doctorjazz, james, S&M&S, David, WR, Sylvia and all listening in today to our little Carla Bley tribute. Peter and I are also hoping to add to our Hellraiser total to support all we do here on GTDR.
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alanr:

Excited for today's show and your own musical take on Carla!! saludos from further south.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Spangled Banner Minor and Other Patriotic Songs" ...
I thought that issue was on my end (streaming at the office isn't optimal).
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doctorjazz:

↳ David (in London) @12:01
Hello DiL!
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Irene Trudel:

↳ Dean @11:57
Sounds like a wonderful night, Dean!
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doctorjazz:

Always loved Carla Bley's music, nice to catch the tribute today!
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alanr:

One would hope that the film made about her recording of Escalator Over The Hill would be available again. I saw it once too many years ago at Anthology Film Archives. Great fun to watch.
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WR:

Bley's website is fun and there is a lot there for the persistent.
www.wattxtrawatt.com...
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Irene Trudel:

↳ alanr @12:09
Hi alanr! I haven't seen it, but maybe with Carla's passing it will become available again.
  12:15pm
headcleaner:

Afternoon, peoples. Got to see Carla live my first and only time at the Jazz Standard, shortly before the pandemic. Wasn't familiar with her work, but as soon as she starts, you know it's on a completely different level.
  12:17pm
WM:

I was very lucky to hear the Carla Bley Band at the Bottom Line in NYC sometime in the early 1980s (I think). The band included Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Andrew Cyrille and Terry Adams. I only wish I had heard her live many times more.
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Andrew in Toronto:

Good afternoon Irene and all other listeners!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ David (in London) @12:01
Afternoon David!
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doctorjazz:

I never caught Bley in her own set, do believe I saw her with Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra (but that was a while ago, could be remembering incorrectly).
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ doctorjazz @12:20
Hiya doc!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:21
Hi Andrew!
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David (in London):

↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:19
Hey Andrew!
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alanr:

but look what I just found (you will find "escalator" excerpts: www.youtube.com...
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alanr:

www.facebook.com...
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Musique Mecanique III" by "The Carla Bley Band"
Love this, especially the skip, LP's rule!
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doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @12:24
(There's nothing wrong with the record-it was recorded that way, if you were wondering). Bley's humor.
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Sean in Bristol UK:

Good afternoon Irene,
Hello one and all
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Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ headcleaner @12:15
Hey, Headcleaner. a) that sounds amazing b) I'm still reeling from your performance at karaoke last Friday.
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Irene Trudel:

Hey headcleaner, WM and Andrew! Glad I got to see Carla play a couple of times, including at the 2005 Newport Jazz Festival (where today's picture came from). Peter, I'm sure has seen her many more times than I have. All memorable, I would think!
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Marshland:

Only got to see Carla play once, with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, at the Royal Festival back in 2009, was a great evening. Robert Wyatt made a guess appearance too.
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Irene Trudel:

Greetings Sean, Bryan and Marshland!
  12:28pm
Listener Robert:

On WFMU I never know whether this is intentional.
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Irene Trudel:

↳ Marshland @12:26
Cool that you got to see a show with Robert Wyatt guesting!
  12:29pm
Peter K.:

Every time I saw Carla Bley live was memorable. To say the least.
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WR:

↳ Song: "Musique Mecanique III" by "The Carla Bley Band"
Those "skip" repeats were amazing. And the solos were hot too. Great great great.
  12:32pm
Dean:

Bley was born in Oakland, yes? I wonder if she visited Piedmont Piano Co.
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Listener Bryan (the Professor):

↳ Marshland @12:26
wowza.
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Marshland:

Shades of "I'm a Mineralist" with those skip repeats...
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:25
Good afternoon Sean!
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Michael 98145:

Hello, Friends.

RIP, Carla
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doctorjazz:

Bley mostly disparaged her piano playing in early interviews, but more recently she'd say she had a style all her own.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Ida Lupino" by "Carla Bley"
A funkier take on this than the earlier recordings of it I know of.
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doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @12:36
(Paul Bley would play it almost as a dirge)
  12:39pm
WM:

My introduction to Carla Bley was hearing Ida Lupino on the first NRBQ record that came out in 1969.
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Irene Trudel:

Hi Robert and Michael!
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doctorjazz:

Some Carla Bley interviews:
www.newyorker.com...

ethaniverson.com...
  12:42pm
Peter K.:

↳ WM @12:39
Keep listening!
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Stork:

Phew! Made it in time for Ida Lupino! Hi all! So sweet to hear Carla's beautiful music!!
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Irene Trudel:

↳ WM @12:39
You mean this track, WM??
  12:43pm
WM:

Yes!
  12:44pm
judy from croton:

Oh oh oh
Making so many connections, with your help, zirene and Peter
  12:44pm
WM:

I wonder who wrote the lyrics?
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ doctorjazz @12:41
Could you please cut &paste the Carla interview and send it to my email?
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Irene Trudel:

↳ judy from croton @12:44
Hey judy! Nice to hear from you.
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Stork:

I played this in a passing tribute to Carla yesterday - but i played a different track - the only one on the album without Robert Wyatt, actually. This record is under Mason's name, but he really only played drums - Carla put it all together.
  12:48pm
WM:

I should mention that after searching online for a long time I finally found the libretto to Escalator Over The Hill at the following website:
https://www.mattendahl.com/jco/eoth_libretto.txt
  12:49pm
Peter K.:

↳ WM @12:44
If you mean the lyrics to "Ida," the answer is Terry Adams.
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zzz:

thanks for doing the Carla Bley Tribute, DJ IT, and hello to you and all.

RIP to Carla Bley, incredible talent.

nice to hear Musique Mechanique. I got that record some time in college and it blew me away and i was obsessed with it never heard anything like that.
  12:49pm
headcleaner:

↳ Song: "I'm a Mineralist" by "Nick Mason (Robert Wyatt, v...
Never knew about the Mason-Wyatt-Bley collaboration -- so much more interesting than what certain other members of Mason's band were doing at the time
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zzz:

NRBQ Ida was a treat, never heard that version before
  12:52pm
judy from croton:

I did 'cut and paste' at a typesetter's for New Music Distribution Service on my arrival in NY. My intro to Carla Bley
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Irene Trudel:

↳ Stork @12:48
Hey Stork! If I'm remembering correctly, "Can't Get My Motor to Start" was somewhat of a hit on FM radio when it came out.
  12:52pm
WM:

Amy C. Beal published a biography of CB in 2011. I've only read part of it, but it seems very good. You can find the whole text @ archive.org.
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Irene Trudel:

↳ judy from croton @12:52
Wow, that's really cool, judy!
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Irene Trudel:

↳ zzz @12:49
Happy to oblige, zzz! We're big fans in this household.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:44
Done!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ doctorjazz @12:55
Thanks a bunch!
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zzz:

very possible i learned out it from this very radio program, but CB has/had the coolest website ever:
www.wattxtrawatt.com
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ zzz @12:57
She sure did!
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Stork:

↳ Irene Trudel @12:52
I can believe it. What a hoot!
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Stork:

↳ Song: "Rawalpindi Blues" by "Carla Bley / Paul Haines"
❤️❤️❤️
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zzz:

unmistakable Don Cherry on that escalator over the hill track.

Tony Williams Lifetime is so intense!
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Mxter Baba:

greetings, Irene and WFMU folx in the stream!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Mxter Baba @1:06
Hiya Baba!
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Sean in Bristol UK:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:06
Hey Andrew
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Sean in Bristol UK:

↳ Mxter Baba @1:06
Salutations, Baba
  1:09pm
WM:

Wait… Vashkar was written by CB? I bought Emergency when it first came out in 1970. It was - and still is - one of my favorite records, but I never realized one of the best songs on the record was written by CB.
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David (in London):

↳ Mxter Baba @1:06
Mx Beekins!
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Mxter Baba:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:06
hey there, A in T! S in B! D (in L)!
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Stork:

Be a leader - listen to Irene and Peter!
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Stork:

↳ Stork @1:12
ugh - who wrote that?
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alanr:

Paul Haines was around the NYC scene, friends with Michael Snow, Roswell Rudd, and others in NYC in the early 60s. He helped do recordings on his reel to reel, including the NY Art Quartet. So, this put him into the mix of the new music scene at the time
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David (in London):

Ida was a good south London girl.
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Irene Trudel:

↳ Mxter Baba @1:11
Hi Mxter Baba!
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alanr:

His poetry to very open and sometimes odd, which was reflected in a conversation we once had about remembering those days. He was too obtuse (I was recording on video) to use in my NY Art Quartet doc. A sweet, friendly, but obtuse guy.
  1:15pm
WM:

Recently I discovered on YouTube video of Tony Williams Lifetime on the Beat Club in 1970. And the band includes Jack Bruce!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfy3Urhtsc
  1:15pm
WM:

Recently I discovered on YouTube video of Tony Williams Lifetime on the Beat Club in 1970. And the band includes Jack Bruce!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfy3Urhtsc
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alanr:

Yes, Escalator was simply a document of the making of the recording. Fun to see a lot of familiar musicians in their much younger days and a hilarious retake and retake and retake (audio) of Jack Bruce in a sound booth
  1:17pm
Dean:

Haines recorded Albert Ayler's Ghosts, per wikipedia!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ WM @1:15
Thanks for the link WM.
  1:18pm
Peter K.:

↳ WM @1:15
Jack Bruce was actually a member of the Tony Williams Lifetime for a minute. He's on at least a few tracks of the band's second album. The group disbanded after that, and later incarnations never quite captured the magic of the original.
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Mxter Baba:

Most def gotta go back to the archives and listen to this entire program from the start!
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David (in London):

I like to imagine that back in the 60s and 70s, if Nino Rota was commissioned to do a high profile score, Ennio Morricone would stomp about the house swearing and breaking things. And vice versa.
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zzz:

the Hal Willner tribute records are so wonderful
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WR:

A well written article I found in the playlist comments of Rich in Washington's most recent Friday Drummer stream show that has some interesting details about Escalator Over the Hill as well as overview of Carla's life and career:
thequietus.com...
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Mxter Baba:

↳ David (in London) @1:20
that sparks my imagination to play each other's soundtracks to the movies that used the other one!!!
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Irene Trudel:

↳ WR @1:20
Thanks for pointing that out, WR!
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Michael 98145:

This is great
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David (in London):

↳ Mxter Baba @1:24
Good call! Worth trying I reckon.

Hmm, watching The Godfather with the soundtrack of The Thing playing - that could prove interesting...
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ WR @1:20
Thanks for the link WR.
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Mxter Baba:

↳ WR @1:20
oooh, coool! thanks WRkins!
  1:28pm
WM:

In 2007 Bill Laswell put out an expanded and remastered version of TWL Turn It Over on which Jack Bruce can be heard more prominently than the original release. You can find it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYUAtox95Y
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Mxter Baba:

↳ David (in London) @1:27
right?!??!?!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Misterioso (Monk)" by "The Carla Bley Band"
This is a great compilation, Hal Wilner empresario!
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Soule:

Good morning, Irene Trudel and other fellow admirers of Carla!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ WM @1:28
Thanks WM.
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Soule @1:36
Hi there Soule!
  1:37pm
WM:

The connections continue for me… As a kid I saw the movie The Trouble with Angels (1966). Its features Hailey Mills as a rebellious student at a Catholic Girls’ School and Rosalind Russelll as Mother Superior. I liked it as a kid and still think it’s a pretty good film. As it turns out it was directed by Ida Lupino. I wonder if IL ever heard CB’s composition.
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Soule:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @1:36
Hi, Andrew! Good to see ya.
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Irene Trudel:

Good day to you, Soule!
  1:43pm
Dean:

Just sent you an interview with Carla from a 2012 issue of Musician, Irene.
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Irene Trudel:

↳ WM @1:37
Amazing how many connections there are!
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Soule:

↳ WM @1:37
My wife and I have watched "The Trouble With Angels" many times. "Scathingly brilliant idea" is a phrase we use often. Ida Lupino directed 3 episodes of "Gilligan's Island."
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Irene Trudel:

↳ Dean @1:43
Thanks Dean!
  1:44pm
WM:

Tangential to CB’s career, I’d like to mention No Answer - music by Michael Mantler with words taken from Samuel Beckett’s novel How It Is.CB plays piano with Jack Bruce on bass & vocals and Don Cherry on trumpet. For many years I couldn’t find it online but then recently it turned up. Well worth a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWOekc5aNA0
  1:45pm
Dean:

Geez, D. Sharpe played in one of her big bands. You know, later day Modern Lovers drummer.
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Soule:

↳ WM @1:44
I agree, Michael Mantler's "No Answer" is great.
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Irene Trudel:

↳ WM @1:44
Another great link to check out! I think Peter and I will be spending the evening watching You Tube.
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alanr:

wow.... that was quite Monkish, baby, baby!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" by "Carla Bley / Ste...
Swallow is the guitar-iest bass player ever!
  1:53pm
Dean:

Swallow's work with Giuffre is similar.
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Michael 98145:

This is going to be an excellent archive show ...
  1:57pm
WM:

Both Ida Lupino and Carla Bley produced accomplished works long before the term Feminism was ever whispered. I don’t think they ever put themselves in a special category of Women Artists, they just instinctively produced first rate works with out stopping to classify themselves. (This is meant not as a criticism of anyone but only as to a compliment to artists beyond classification.)
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Soule:

↳ doctorjazz @1:52
There's a Jazz Weekly interview where Swallow talks about being attracted to the guitar-ish aspect of the instrument, but continues, "On the other hand, I have also kind of insisted whenever anybody asks over the years, that it is a bass, that even though it doesn't look like an acoustic bass and sound like an acoustic bass, it is there to perform the same functions." www.jazzweekly.com...
  2:01pm
WM:

I that last comment does not seem too cranky or argumentative... now that I think of it...
  2:03pm
Dean:

Marian McPartland wasn't an important composer?
  2:05pm
Dean:

"Feminism" as politics/ideology was first uttered before the end of the 19th C.
  2:05pm
WM:

First like should read "I hope that..."
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Stork:

↳ Michael 98145 @1:54
I concur.
  2:06pm
WM:

@Dean: I stand corrected.
  2:06pm
Peter K.:

↳ Dean @2:03
She was a great pianist and a pretty good composer but not, in my opinion, an important one.
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joe mulligan:

it seems that Carla influenced "Chilly" Gonzales
  2:09pm
Dean:

Fair enough, Peter K.
  2:10pm
Dean:

Then how about Nina Simone?
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doctorjazz:

↳ Soule @2:00
Thanks for the link, Soule (he can definitely comp like a bassist, but when he's soloing on the upper register, he sounds like a guitar player; you can tell it's not, but it's pretty close).
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Stork:

↳ Song: "Dance Class (Live)" by "George Russell Sextet"
Great track!!
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Soule:

↳ doctorjazz @2:13
Yes - to me it often sounds like the low end of Larry Coryell's guitar in particular.
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Irene Trudel:

↳ Dean @2:10
I think Nina is up there too, but different. She was focused more on songs and Carla on instrumental music.
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Stork:

↳ Dean @2:10
I think Nina was transcendent on so many levels - I'm not sure she can be fairly compared to Marian McPartland
  2:17pm
Dean:

Also fair.
  2:19pm
Dean:

That @2:17 was meant for Irene, but applies as well to Stork. I agree that Nina transcends so many musicians in so many ways. I also recognize that Mary Lou Williams and Carla Bley delivered more in the way of long-form work.
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Stork:

↳ Dean @2:19
Just to clarify: I love Marian M's music, her pianism, and her radio show!!
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Dean:

Last night Alan Broadbent performed two works he introduced explicitly as composed by women, "Struttin' With Some Barbecue," and "Lullaby of the Leaves."
  2:22pm
WM:

To continue my personal process of association... The first NRBQ record also contained a version of Sun Ra's Rocket Number 9. I at least knew about Sun Ra by then but that version of R#9 was probably the first Sun Ra composition I ever heard. I went on to become a huge Sun Ra fan. I first heard the Arkestra live in 1973 and the performance was eventually released on CD as Concert for the Comet Kohoutek. So I can honestly brag that I have been listening to both Sun Ra and Carla Bley for the last 50 years.
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Dean:

I'm partial to this oldie but goodie: https://www.discogs.com/release/5479575-Marian-McPartland-At-The-Hickory-House
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Stork:

↳ Song: "The Opening; Interlude (Shovels); The Survivors; ...
I was waiting with baited breath for this rekkid!!
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BLCKDGRD:

Checking in late, thanks for this, will listen to the first 140 minutes once they're archived!
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Irene Trudel:

I love Marian's "Ambiance" album. When I briefly worked for NPR's NY bureau, I recorded an interview at her house.
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Soule:

↳ Stork @2:23
Yes! Hurray for Genuine Tong Funeral!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Soule @2:26
Agreed!
  2:29pm
Dean:

So cool, interviewing Marian! All this talk of female artists puts me in mind of Jessica Williams, whom we lost last year. Saw her live only once, in SF. Or did I see her a second time at Piedmont Piano?
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Soule:

↳ Stork @2:20
AND there's a great episode of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Carla and Steve!: www.npr.org...
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Stork:

↳ Dean @2:29
I'm also a fan of Jessica Williams. She was a double threat as a classical and jazz player. Love the album Birks Works
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Stork:

Whadda show!! Whadda duo!! Thanks, Irene & Peter. This is just pure joy!!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Stork @2:35
Also dig Jessica Williams, discovered her not long ago.
  2:42pm
Peter K.:

↳ Stork @2:36
Thanks for the kind words, Stork. We love Carla Bley and were happy to have the chance to show it!
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Irene Trudel:

↳ Stork @2:36
Aww, shucks! It was really fun spreading our love for Carla.
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doctorjazz:

Almost the end, so glad you could do a tribute to Carla Bley, I also love her music (been missing any WFMU tributes that may have happened).
Thanks, Irene and Peter!
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Irene Trudel:

Thanks for all the kind words everybody! We could go another three hours I'm sure, but we must make way for Wendy. I'll be back next Monday at noon with some Halloween foolishness. Stay streaming for Wreck Your Own Adventure, up next! wfmu.org...
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Andrew in Toronto:

What a classic episode!
Thanks Irene and Peter!
  2:47pm
WM:

Great show! Thank you and WFMU for allowing me to ramble, rant, reminisce and make recommendations. I'll make a point of listening to your show from now on.
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Irene Trudel:

↳ WM @2:47
Thanks so much, WM!
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Stork:

↳ WM @2:47
ramble, rant, reminisce and make recommendations. - Those are just 4 of the traits one must have as a DJ.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "America The Beautiful (Medley)" by "Charlie Haden...
Lovely, Lovely, Lovely!
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Irene Trudel:

↳ Stork @2:49
You got that right, Stork!
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Mxter Baba:

ah, thank you, Irene—what a glorious tribute this has been. Thanks, everyone who supports WFMU!
  2:52pm
Peter K.:

↳ Stork @2:49
Rambling, ranting, reminiscing and making recommendations: These are a few of my favorite things!
  2:53pm
Peter K.:

Thanks for listening, everyone. Thanks to Irene for allowing me to share the airwaves with her. And thanks to Carla Bley for being Carla Bley.
  2:53pm
WM:

Thanks to everyone for your indulgence.
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Soule:

↳ Peter K. @2:53
Thank you, Irene and Peter, for this show. A lovely tribute.
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doctorjazz:

↳ WM @2:47
What else is a chat board for?
  2:55pm
erik-O-vert:

Super Duper extra thanks to ALL who participated today sharing and delving (as always) with all the Link-y delights and discoveries! Y’all are the best community.
  2:57pm
Listener Robert:

Yay!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Reactionary Tango" by "Carla Bley"
One of my favorite Bley tunes, was on constant repeat mode on my turntable when I first got it.
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WR:

Many thanks, Irene and Peter for this loving tribute. Onward.
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alanr:

FANTASTIC SHOW!!!!!! THANK YOU PETER & IRENE!!!!!
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David (in London):

Thanks for a great show today, Irene.
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Listener Bryan (the Professor):

Thanks, Irene!
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Stork:

THANKS U TWO!
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