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
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
The Monk album is every bit as good as the earlier classic Town Hall big band concert on Riverside. Thad Jones is great!
ReplyDeleteI agree.
ReplyDeleteHence the excellence of Jones's own orchestra, not long after.
ReplyDeleteJoe 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
And JJ Stick points us toward this Carla Bley interview:
ReplyDeletehttps://jazztimes.com/features/bright-moments-with-carla-bley/