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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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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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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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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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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Pharoah Sanders (category African-American jazz musicians)
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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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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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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Ayvazyan founded the Armenian State Jazz Orchestra, the first in the Soviet Union.[citation needed] The orchestra's first drummer Robert Yolchyan became...
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Michael Mantler (category American jazz composers)
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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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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Barry Guy (redirect from London Jazz Composers Orchestra)
formal composition received their grandest form in the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra. Originally formed to perform Guy's composition Ode in 1972 (released...
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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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Danish jazz dates back to 1923 when Valdemar Eiberg formed a jazz orchestra and recorded what are thought to be the first Danish jazz records in August...
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Carla Bley (category 20th-century jazz composers)
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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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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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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Gato Barbieri (category Latin jazz saxophonists)
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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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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Roswell Rudd (category American jazz trombonists)
New York Eye and Ear Control; the album Communications by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra; and in collaborations with Don Cherry, Larry Coryell, Pharoah...
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Third stream (redirect from Third Stream Jazz)
jazz musicians playing solely, or a jazz soloist performing with a symphony orchestra, as long as the musicians are able to interpret and play jazz music...
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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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Sharon Freeman (category American jazz composers)
Jazz Composer's Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Harlem Piano Trio. She has been cited by Jazz Times as the top-rated established jazz French...
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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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For Players Only (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra albums)
that year. On the album, Jenkins is joined by members of the Jazz Composer's Orchestra. The album presents a single, extended composition by Jenkins...
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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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Student Jazz Orchestra Nillihc - acid jazz MARUTYRI - jazz fusion Jazz in Belgium Dutch jazz history site (in Dutch) Dutch Jazz Connection Dutch Jazz Agency...
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Kent Carter (category American jazz double-bassists)
Sessions (Blank Forms, 2021) With the Jazz Composer's Orchestra Communication (JCOA, 1965) The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA, 1968) With Steve Lacy Disposability...
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