9 Responses

1. As Carla Bley herself says, "The timing couldn't have been worse." 21 minutes of this (minute) album are taken up by a suite based around "The Star Spangled Banner"; the album was actually released as US forces assailed Iraq, not exactly a great time to be flagwaving, even with a dose of Carla Bley's characteristic irony/5(4).

   Reply
2. Label: WATT Works - WATT/31,ECM Records - • Format: CD Album • Country: Germany • Genre: Jazz • Style: Contemporary Jazz The Carla Bley Big Band - Looking For America (, CD) | Discogs/5(7).

   Reply
3. For over forty years, Carla Bley has written music that infuses jazz traditions with her own personality. She continues to lead a variety of ensembles, from small combos to large-scale big bands. With Looking for America, Bley returns to the big band format. Totaling 18 pieces, the group is a rich blend of 13 horns, two keyboards, and a rhythm section/5(4).

   Reply
4. In a year of patriotism run riot, leave it to composer, pianist, and bandleader Carla Bley to take a look for the heart of what makes it tick -- and what it means to be an Americanski. The Bley Big Band hadn't been around for a while, and this outing is a welcome return. Featuring soloists Lew Soloff, Gary Valente, the remarkable Andy Sheppard, and Wolfgang Puschnig, this most 8/

   Reply
5. This CD's title alone makes that clear. Like her Liberation Music Orchestra co-founder Charlie Haden, Ms. Bley loves America far too much, too deeply, and too intelligently to ever become one of its knee jerks. Indeed, LOOKING FOR AMERICA is one of her clearest, and best, statements to that effect/5(4).

   Reply
6. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about The Carla Bley Big Band - Looking For America at Discogs. Complete your The Carla Bley Big Band collection.

   Reply
7. Looking For America - CD *NEW Format: CD Artist: Carla Bley Big Band Runtime: n/a Retail Price: $ SALE PRICE: $ TRACKS Disc 1 1. Grand Mother 2. The National Anthem / OG Can UC? / Flags / Wh.

   Reply
8. Looking for America is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in and released on the Watt/ECM label in [1] [2] Contents.

   Reply
9. Looking for America by Carla Bley Audio CD $ Only 1 left in stock - order soon. this purchase, an album by her Very Big Band, ca. Calling it a Very Big Band is overstating it a bit, but it is Big, with four trumpets and four trombones (one a bass trombone), five reeds (in different mixes, there are soprano, alto, tenor and bari /5(9).

   Reply