Description: To me, an absolutely beautiful piece! There's no easy way to describe Escalator over the Hill, one of the most ambitious works in 20th century music and one that seems to sum up much of the creative energy that was loose between 1968 and 1972, when it was conceived, composed, and recorded. Beginning with a collection of Paul Haines's distinctive poems--brief, wittily surreal, sometimes aphoristic or elliptical--Carla Bley set out to arrange them as a continuous musical-theater piece, giving specific characters to them as well as melodies. In the process, she drew on available musical genres from Kurt Weill's theater music to free jazz and rock to create her own style, dispensing pieces among several instrumental groupings, from jazz orchestra to "hotel lobby band" to an electronic "phantom band." Bley then drew on an extraordinary collection of singers and musicians to realize the score, casting Jack Bruce and Linda Ronstadt as the lead voices, with appearances by jazz singers Sheila Jordan and Jeanne Lee. The soloists include Don Cherry, Gato Barbieri, Roswell Rudd, and Charlie Haden, while the fusion-oriented "Jack's traveling band" features Bruce and John McLaughlin. Bley's closing comment in the notes--"Anything not told, wasn't yet known"--is a fitting summary. Escalator's accomplishment is even more remarkable than its ambitions, creating syntheses of music and language that hadn't appeared before (and haven't since), and blazing a trail that few have had the creativity or energy to imagine following. As durable as it is visionary, its first public performances took place on European tours mounted in the late 1990s. --Stuart Broomer(I couldn't have said it better...Thanks To Stuart for the best description ever!) Note to Buyers:Smoke free environment Also i don't receive messages about offers so feel free to send offer to me as a message through ebay. I will see it then in my email as well. Thank you.Please make offers...reasonable offers...Welcome questions too. All my items are from my personal collection. I was (tried to be) fanatical about their condition. All pics are from my phone and i will show the flaws as well, so there is no guessing on your part. Thanks!
Price: 70 USD
Location: Los Angeles, California
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Shipping Cost: 10.4 USD
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Artist: Carla Bley-Paul Haines with Jack Bruce
Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan
Style: 1970s, Experimental
CD Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Inlay Condition: Excellent (EX)
Composer: Paul Haines
Instrument: various
Case Type: Double Jewel case
Format: CD
Type: Double CD
Features: Import
Release Title: Escalator Over The Hill
Color: Silver
Record Label: JCOA, ECM
Case Condition: Excellent (EX)
Release Year: 1988
Language: English
Edition: Japanese
Genre: Jazz,Progressive music, and spoken word,, Alternative, Rock
Era: 1970s
