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Sextet (Carla Bley album)

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Released
  
1987

Sextet(1986-7)
  
Duets(1988)

Release date
  
1987

Label
  
ECM Records

Length
  
40:58

Artist
  
Carla Bley

Producer
  
Carla Bley

Genres
  
Jazz, Jazz fusion

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Recorded
  
December 1986 & January 1987

Studio
  
Grog Kill Studio, Willow, New York

Similar
  
Carla Bley albums, Jazz albums

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Sextet is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley released on the Watt/ECM label in 1987.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with a review by Richard S. Ginell stating, "The sound bathes in a polished golden ambience very much in keeping with a product distributed under the ECM banner". The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 2½ stars.

Track listing

All compositions by Carla Bley.

  1. "More Brahms" - 7:31
  2. "Houses and People" - 7:26
  3. "The Girl Who Cried Champagne" - 6:08
  4. "Brooklyn Bridge" - 6:35
  5. "Lawns" - 7:06
  6. "Healing Power" - 6:22

Personnel

  • Carla Bley - organ, synth bass (track 2)
  • Larry Willis - piano
  • Hiram Bullock - guitar, bass guitar (track 4)
  • Steve Swallow - bass guitar
  • Victor Lewis - drums
  • Don Alias - percussion

    • Songs

    1More Brahms7:29
    2Houses and People7:25
    3The Girl Who Cried Champagne6:06

    References

    Sextet (Carla Bley album) Wikipedia
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