Saturday, February 25, 2017

Big Jazz Bands Writ Large: Saturday Music Club

Carla Bley/Michael Mantler Orchestra: Escalator Over the Hill


Anthony Braxton Orchestra: Creative Orchestra Music 1976


Gunther Schuller Orchestra: Jazz Abstractions


Thelonious Monk Big Band and Quartet: In Concert (Columbia)


Charles Mingus Quartet and Toshiyuki Miyama's New Herd Orchestra: 
Charles Mingus with Orchestra (Denon. 1971)


Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band: "Sumie"


Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra: The New Continent


David Amram Orchestra: The Young Savages

4 comments:

Jim C. said...

The Monk album is every bit as good as the earlier classic Town Hall big band concert on Riverside. Thad Jones is great!

Todd Mason said...

I agree.

Todd Mason said...

Hence the excellence of Jones's own orchestra, not long after.

Joe Megalos on FaceBook plumps quite sensibly for at least some of Franz Koglmann's Pipetet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AEX3bfaa0E&feature=youtu.be

Todd Mason said...

And JJ Stick points us toward this Carla Bley interview:
https://jazztimes.com/features/bright-moments-with-carla-bley/