| Jazz Realities | ||||
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| Released | 1966 | |||
| Recorded | January 11, 1966 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 38:07 | |||
| Label | Fontana | |||
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Jazz Realities is an album by Carla Bley, Michael Mantler and Steve Lacy with Kent Carter and Aldo Romano. The album was released on the Fontana label in 1966. [1]
The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars. [2]
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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 and producer. Many of the key figures in avant-garde jazz from the time contributed on the album including Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Gato Barbieri, Larry Coryell, Roswell Rudd, and Carla Bley. The album's finale features a two-part concerto for Cecil Taylor and orchestra.
Disposability is the fifth album by Steve Lacy and was released on the Italian RCA label in 1966 featuring three tunes written by Thelonious Monk, one by Cecil Taylor, one by Carla Bley and four by Lacy performed by Lacy, Aldo Romano and Kent Carter.
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