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Escalator Over The Hill
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Track Listing
Disc 1:
- Hotel Overture
- This Is Here...
- Like Animals
- Escalator Over The Hill
- Stay Awake
- Ginger And David
- Song To Anything That Moves
- EOTH Theme
- Businessmen
- Ginger And David Theme
- Why
- It's Not What You Do
- Detective Writer Daughter
- Doctor Why
- Slow Dance
- Smalltown Agonist
Disc 2:
- End Of Head
- Over Her Head
- Little Pony Soldier
- Oh Say Can You Do?
- Holiday In Risk
- Holiday In Risk Theme
- A.I.R. (All India Radio)
- Rawalpindi Blues
- End Of Rawalpindi
- End Of Animals
- ...And It's Again
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #92629 in Music
- Released on: 2008-03-17
- Number of discs: 2
- Dimensions: .37 pounds
Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.co.uk
Even if you decide you hate this recording and everything it stands for, this is an essential classic if you have any interest at all in large-scale jazz-derived composition. Long sought-after as a rare LP, this work dates from 1971 when anything seemed possible, to the extent that a massive avant-garde quasi-opera by composer/pianist Carla Bley and writer Paul Haines, boasting a "plot" which is enigmatic to the point of incomprehensibility and which draws on musical sources which range from the classic blaring of the American big bands to the European Serialist school of post-classical composition almost seemed par for the course. Throughout her career Bley has always seemed more interested in manipulating the structural devices of jazz than in allowing full rein to its tradition of improvisation. While this can occasionally make her smaller-scale work sound somewhat constipated, here it succeeds in holding together this vast, sprawling, nothing-like-it-before-or-since musical and literary edifice which is as essential, in its own way, as the suites of Ellington. --Roger Thomas
Un Essentiel amazon.fr
Lorsque Carla Bley commence l'enregistrement d'Escalator Over The Hill en novembre 1968, la scène musicale toute entière est en pleine mutation. Aux bouleversements qu'apporte le free jazz, Miles Davis s'apprête à répondre par In a Silent Way et Bitches Brew. Les Beatles, Jimi Hendrix et bien d'autres donnent l'exemple, tendent la main aux musiques du monde. Les oreilles grandes ouvertes, perméables à toutes les cultures, Carla Bley va y puiser son inspiration et en effectuer la synthèse. Plusieurs formations à géométrie variable cohabitent dans ce vaste opéra réunissant de célèbres musiciens de jazz et de rock. Au registre grave des cuivres répondent les cordes de groupements plus réduits. Marches funèbres, valses tristes, fanfares dissonantes, Carla mélange tout, avec audace et réussite. À des moments de grande tension succèdent de calmes et lumineux paysages dans lesquels l'Inde occupe une large place, l'oeuvre toute entière tendant vers la lumière. --Pierre de Chocqueuse
