Carla Bley Band - Ravenna Jazz Festival 1996

 

Carla Bley: piano
Claude Deppa, Guy Barker, Lew Soloff & Steve Waterman: trumpets
Chris Dean, Gary Valente, Pete Bitchill & Richard Henry: trombones
Andy Sheppard, Jerry Underwood, Julian Arguelles, Roger Jannotta & Wolfgang Puschnig: saxophones
Karen Mantler: organ
Steve Swallow: bass
Dennis Mackrel: drums 

1. Settin' Calvin Waltz parts I-VI
2. Exaltation Carl Ruggles
3. Religious Experience
4. Major
5. One Way
6. On The Stage In Cages
7. Beads 

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The Carla Bley Band - Live in Hamburg (1986)

 

Carla Bley - cond, org
Wayne Krantz – g
Larry Willis – p
Steve Swallow – b
Victor Lewis – d
Donna ??? - ?
Bob Stewart – tuba
Hannes Kottek – tp
Karl „Bumi“ Fian – tp
Christian Radovan – tb
Didier Hatt – tp
Roger Janotta – saxes
Harry Sokal – saxes
Wolfgang Puschnig – saxes
Roman Schwaller – saxes
Maurice Magnoni – saxes

01 The Girl Who Cried Champagne
02 A Small Island in the South Pacific
03 Real Life Hits
04 Rut
05 Untitled
06 Healing Power
07 Lost In The Stars

Thalia-Theater, Hamburg, Germany, august 30, 1986

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Tom Van Der Geld and Children at Play - Patience (1978)

As yet to provide choice “vibes” for Kenny Wheeler’s around 6, in addition to his elusive but well-worth-owning Path, mallet man Tom van der Geld made his ECM debut with this, his second of four “Children at Play” recordings. Less specific than his later work with the group, which was perhaps never meant to be a stable collective/concept in the first place, Patience may require just that. That being said, the abstractions of the opening title track have a charm all their own, seeming to inhabit that blurry space between fading night and the coming dawn. This diurnal circle unrolls into a relatively straight line in the flute of multi-instrumentalist Roger Jannotta through the vibes’ infrared lobs. With “Golden Stabs” we feel that dawn acutely, warming our faces with a gorgeous soprano that always remains tonally centered despite its erratic rays. Those smooth reeds carry over into the even smoother melancholia of “Alison.” “Celia” is an ever-changing mosaic of continental winds and underwater railways. Like a broken vial of liquid mercury, it recedes, unrecoverable, into the cracks of a melodious tessellation. “And Then…” ends the album on a pointillist reverie with the oboe as storyteller. We get the barest intimations of traction in the bass (Ken Carter) and drums (Billy Elgart) before taking shelter in more densely woven brush. It is here where the album at last begins to gel and its trajectory becomes known to us.

Viscous and profoundly solitary, van der Geld’s is an intimate world to be sure. Like the flute that haunts its darkest corners, it is a half-remembered death given a new body through the resurrection of the musical act. One feels Patience in degrees of heat, each track an incremental setting on a toaster that sets the coils aglow with varying intensity, leaving us with a distinct char every time.

from http://ecmreviews.com/2011/03/15/patience/

Tom Van Der Geld, vibraharp, percussion
Bill Elgart, drums, percussion
Kent Carter, bass
Roger Jannotta, soprano and baritone saxophones, flutes, oboe, bass clarinet

1. Patience
2. Golden stabs
3. Alison
4. Celia
5. And then...

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The Carla Bley Band - Umbria Jazz 2002

Carla Bley - pianoforte
Wolfgang Puschnig - sax soprano e tenore
Andy Sheppard - sassofono
Julian Arguelles - sassofono
Roger Jannotta - sassofono
Christoph Panzani - sassofono
Lew Soloff - tromba
Ernie Hummers - tromba
Earl Gardner - tromba
Giampaolo Casali - tromba
Giuseppe Calamosca - trombone
Gigi Grata - trombone
Gary Valente - trombone
Richard Henry - trombone basso
Karen Mantler - organo
Steve Swallow - basso
Billy Drummond - batteria
Marceo Doctor - percussioni
 

1. United States part 1
2. United States part 2
3. United States part 3
4. United States part 4
5. Fast lane
6. El cucinero
7. Hip hop
8. Hotel ouverture
9. Tijuana Traffic

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Tom Van Der Geld - Children at play (1975)

Tom Van Der Geld  :  vibes, percussion 
Roger Jannotta  :  reeds, percussion 
Larry Porter  :  piano, electric piano, percussion 
Richard Appleman  :  bass 
Jamey Haddad  :  drums on 4 
Bob Gullotti  :  drums 

1. Tamarind (Tom Van Der Geld)
2. Wandering I (Tom Van Der Geld)
3. Sweet my sweet (Tom Van Der Geld)
4. Reason (Tom Van Der Geld)
5. Patch of blue (Larry Porter)

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Tom Van Der Geld - Path (1979)

Roger Jannotta on winds, and vibraphonist Tom van der Geld for a network of pellucid improvisations entwining the barest of compositional skeletons. Connors’s twangy steel drops us immediately into an ethereal sound-world with “One,” mediating a pleasant conversation between flute and vibraphone. Thus begins a kaleidoscope of duets, trios, and quartets (the latter courtesy of some non-intrusive overdubbing). Mallets provide a resonant trunk in “Eevee,” from which branches Connors’s crisp foliage, all of it animated by the breath of a majestic flute. This blends smoothly into the pastels of “Joujou,” where familial nostalgia abounds. The title of “Michi” is Japanese for “path,” which makes it the title track by way of translation. Jannotta switches to soprano sax in this new enigmatic territory, landmarked by gossamer flags and empty way stations, before fluting a veil of Aeolian sounds over our ears. “Joys And Sorrows” works stretches our heartstrings and plucks each with the gentility of a raindrop on a spider’s web. Two ghostly guitars shine inside its nocturnal halo of vibes, bisected by soprano with a comet’s grace.

Like a meteor shower, one spends a long time waiting for excitement in Path, only to realize that the pregnant darkness to which one has held such rapt attention harbors far greater wonderment. As one of ECM’s most transparent statements, this positively exquisite album is an easy candidate for president of the label’s Bizarrely Out of Print Club. Find it any way you can and be moved, as you will.

from http://ecmreviews.com/2011/01/21/path/

Tom van der Geld: Vibraharp
Bill Connors: Guitars
Roger Jannotta: Flute, Soprano Saxophone, Oboe

1. One (Tom Van Der Geld)
2. Eevee (Tom Van Der Geld)
3. Joujou (Bill Connors)
4. Michi (Tom Van Der Geld)
5. Joys and sorrows (Tom Van Der Geld)

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Tom Van Der Geld and Children at Play - Out Patients (1980)

Wayne Darling - bass
Bill Elgart - Drums, Percussion
Roger Jannotta - Saxophones, Bass Clarinet, Oboe, Flute, Whistle
Tom van der Geld - Vibraphone

01 Things have changed
02 How gently sails the moon twixt the arbour and the bough (and the world is waiting for the sun)
03 Dreamer
04 Ballade Matteotti
05 I hope it's you

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The very big Carla Bley band - Umbria jazz 2006

The very big Carla Bley band, featuring
Andy Sheppard, saxophones
Bill Drummond, drums
Carla Bley, piano
Christophe Panzani,
Earl Gardner,
Florian Esch,
Gary Valente,
Giampaolo Casati,
Gigi Grata,
Giuseppe Calamosca,
Julian Arguelles,
Karen Mantler, keyboards
Lew Soloff,
Richard Henry,
Roger Jannotta, flute
Steve Swallow, bass
Wolfgang Puschnig, saxophones

01 (Appearing nightly at) Black Orchid (Cocktail music) - part 1
02 (Appearing nightly at) Black Orchid (Cocktail music) - part 2
03 Greezy gravy (Food music for Orchestra Jazz della Sardegna)
04 Owful coffee (Food music for Orchestra Jazz della Sardegna)
05 Ouverture from 'Escalator over the hill'
06 Band introduction
07 Someone to watch (Tin Pan Alley)
08 Till you (Tin Pan Alley)
09 Tijuana Traffic (a terrible accident in Mexico)
10 Ending

Registrato a Perugia, Teatro Morlacchi, il 13 luglio 2006
Trasmesso da Rai Radio Tre il 31 ottobre 2006

Part one
Part two
Part three