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Genre
  
Jazz

Members
  
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Record labels
  
ECM Records, Universal Music LLC

Albums
  
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra, Relativity Suite, The Gardens of Harlem, Communication, Numatik Swing Band

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The Jazz Composer's Orchestra was an American jazz group founded by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler in 1965 to further orchestral avant-garde jazz.

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Its origins lay in the Jazz Composers Guild, an organization founded by Bill Dixon which grew out of the series of 1964 concerts in New York, known as the "October Revolution in Jazz" and subsequent regular performance settings. A big band, formed by Bley and Mantler, became known as the Jazz Composers Guild Orchestra, which made its first record in April 1965. After the demise of the Guild, the big band continued as the Jazz Composer's Orchestra. A non-profit organisation was established in 1966, the Jazz Composers Orchestra Association Inc. (JCOA).

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The Orchestra's first release was Communication in 1965. Their 1968 double-album The Jazz Composer's Orchestra featured soloists Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Pharoah Sanders, Larry Coryell, and Gato Barbieri.

JCOA Records was founded for releases from the Orchestra and its members.

The albums included commissioned works by Roswell Rudd, Clifford Thornton, Don Cherry, Leroy Jenkins and Grachan Moncur III. The group's last performance was in 1975. The activities of the group led to the creation of a record distribution company known as New Music Distribution Service (NMDS).

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Discography

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  • 1965: Communication
  • 1968: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (produced by Michael Mantler)
  • 1971: Escalator over the Hill (a chronotransduction by Carla Bley & Paul Haines)
  • 1973: Relativity Suite (produced by Don Cherry)
  • 1973: Numatik Swing Band (produced by Roswell Rudd)
  • 1975: The Gardens of Harlem (produced by Clifford Thornton)
  • 1975: Echoes of Prayer (produced by Grachan Moncur III)
  • 1975: For Players Only (produced by Leroy Jenkins)
  • Songs

    Communications #9The Jazz Composer's Orchestra · 1968
    Communications #10The Jazz Composer's Orchestra · 1968
    Communications #11 - Part 2The Jazz Composer's Orchestra · 1968

    References

    Jazz Composer's Orchestra Wikipedia