Sextet (Carla Bley album)

Sextet

Studio album by Carla Bley

Released

1987

Recorded

December 1986 & January 1987

Genre

Jazz, jazz fusion

Length

40:58

Carla Bley chronology

Night-Glo
(1985)

Sextet
(1986-7)

Duets
(1988)

Sextet is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley released on the Watt/ECM label in 1987.^[1]^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[4]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with a review by Richard S. Ginell stating, "The sound bathes in a polished golden ambience very much in keeping with a product distributed under the ECM banner".^[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 2½ stars.^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Carla Bley

"More Brahms" - 7:31
"Houses and People" - 7:26
"The Girl Who Cried Champagne" - 6:08
"Brooklyn Bridge" - 6:35
"Lawns" - 7:06
"Healing Power" - 6:22

Recorded at Grog Kill Studio, Willow, New York in December 1986 and January 1987.

Personnel

Carla Bley - organ, synth bass (track 2)
Larry Willis - piano
Hiram Bullock - guitar, bass guitar (track 4)
Steve Swallow - bass guitar
Victor Lewis - drums
Don Alias - percussion

References

↑ Carla Bley discography accessed August 5, 2010
↑ ECM/WATT discography accessed August 25, 2016
1 2 Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed August 5, 2010
1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.

Carla Bley

As leader	Tropic Appetites (1974) Dinner Music (1977) European Tour 1977 (1978) Musique Mecanique (1979) Social Studies (1981) Live! (1982) I Hate to Sing (1984) Heavy Heart (1984) Sextet (1987) Fleur Carnivore (1989) The Very Big Carla Bley Band (1991) Big Band Theory (1993) Songs with Legs (1994) The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church (1996) Fancy Chamber Music (1998) 4 x 4 (2000) Looking for America (2003) The Lost Chords (2004) The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu (2007) Appearing Nightly (2008) Carla's Christmas Carols (2009) Trios (2013) Andando el Tiempo (2016)

With Gary Burton	A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967)

With Jazz Composer's Orchestra	The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968) Escalator over the Hill (1968-71) Relativity Suite (1973)

With Michael Mantler	Jazz Realities (1966)

With Charlie Haden	Liberation Music Orchestra (1969) The Ballad of the Fallen (1983) Dream Keeper (1990) Not in Our Name (2005)

With Nick Mason	Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1979)

With Steve Swallow	Night-Glo (1985) Duets (1988) Go Together (1992) Are We There Yet? (1999)

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