The Jazz Composer's Orchestra was an American jazz group, founded by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler in 1965, to perform orchestral avant-garde jazz. Its...
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The Jazz Composer's Orchestra is a 1968 album by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra recorded over a period of six months with Michael Mantler as composer, leader...
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Communication is the debut album by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra featuring compositions by Michael Mantler and Carla Bley performed by Paul Bley, Steve...
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Carla Bley (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra members)
her own magnum opus Escalator Over The Hill and Mantler's The Jazz Composer's Orchestra LPs. Bley and Mantler were pioneers in the development of independent...
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Gato Barbieri (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra members)
Jazz Composer's Orchestra The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968) With Alan Shorter Orgasm (Verve, 1968) With Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse...
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Pharoah Sanders (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra members)
Chappaqua Suite (Columbia) 1968 – Michael Mantler – Jazz Composer's Orchestra – The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA) 1968 – Gary Bartz – Another Earth (Milestone)...
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Don Cherry (trumpeter) (redirect from Don Cherry (jazz))
1969 [1972]) With Steve Lacy Evidence (New Jazz, 1962) With Michael Mantler The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (ECM, 1968) No Answer (WATT/ECM 1973) With Sunny...
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album) or the title song, 2009 Communication (Jazz Composer's Orchestra album), 1965 The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (album), sometimes referred to as Communications...
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Cecil Taylor discography (category Jazz discographies)
Evans Orchestra, Into the Hot (Impulse!, 1962) – rec. 1961. features tracks also released on Mixed. Jazz Composer's Orchestra, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra...
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Carla Bley discography (category Jazz discographies)
(RCA) With the Jazz Composer's Orchestra 1966: Communication (Fontana) Jazz Composer's Orchestra 1968: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA) (led by Michael...
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Michael Mantler (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra members)
up, he established the Jazz Composer's Orchestra Association (JCOA). Its purpose was to provide an outlet for new orchestral jazz compositions. For its...
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Escalator over the Hill (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra albums)
production and coordination by Michael Mantler", performed by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra. Escalator over the Hill is more than an hour and a half long...
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also worked on notable jazz albums, including the avant-garde jazz album Communications, performed by Jazz Composer's Orchestra and 1974's Musique du Bois...
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Maria Schneider (musician) (redirect from The Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra)
Maria Lynn Schneider (born November 27, 1960) is an American composer and jazz orchestra leader who has won multiple Grammy Awards. Born in Windom, Minnesota...
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Brussels Jazz Orchestra is a Belgian jazz orchestra with big band line up founded in 1993 by saxophonist and composer Frank Vaganée, Serge Plume, Marc...
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Village Voice, regarding the album as merely "competent Jazz Composer’s Orchestra style ensemble jazz, full of nice dissonances and not much more". LP side...
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jazz Irakere Illinois Jacquet Harry James Big Band - jazz Jazz Composer's Orchestra (founded by Carla Bley & Michael Mantler) - avant-garde jazz Jazz...
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Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO), established as the London Schools' Jazz Orchestra in 1965, is a British jazz orchestra. The National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO)...
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Relativity Suite (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra albums)
Relativity Suite is a free-jazz LP by Don Cherry on Jazz Composer's Orchestra Records which was released in 1973. Having appeared on the first two JCOA...
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Larry Coryell (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra members)
was an American jazz guitarist, widely considered the "godfather of fusion". Alongside Gábor Szabó, he was a pioneer in melding jazz, country and rock...
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Reggie Johnson (musician) (category American jazz double-bassists)
Booker 'n' Brass – Booker Ervin (Pacific Jazz) 1968: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra – Jazz Composer's Orchestra (ECM) 1968: Total Eclipse – Bobby Hutcherson...
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July 27, 2009) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and theorist. He is considered one of the first jazz musicians to contribute to general...
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The Gardens of Harlem (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra albums)
JCOA Records. On the album, Thornton is joined by members of the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, supplemented by seven musicians playing African percussion instruments...
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Wheeler, Windmill Tilter (Fontana, 1969) Barry Guy/The London Jazz Composers' Orchestra, Ode (Incus, 1972) Nguyen Le, NDR Big Band, Celebrating the Dark...
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Zurich Concerts is a double live album by Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra featuring recordings of two large-scale compositions, one by Guy...
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Julius Watkins (category Jazz musicians from Detroit)
For Someone I Love (Riverside, 1963) With The Jazz Composer's Orchestra The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA 1968) With Quincy Jones The Birth of a Band...
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The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra was a jazz big band formed by trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis in New York in 1965. The band performed...
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Cecil Taylor (redirect from Cecil Taylor's Orchestra of Two Continents)
poet. Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting...
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Paul Whiteman (redirect from King of Jazz (nickname))
groups handled jazz admirably as part of a larger repertoire. Critic Scott Yanow declares that Whiteman's orchestra "did play very good jazz...His superior...
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Karl Jenkins (category 20th-century jazz composers)
and oboe, as well as arranging and conducting the orchestra. In 1972, Jenkins joined the Canterbury jazz fusion rock band Soft Machine, playing saxophone...
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