Looking for America

Studio album by Carla Bley

Released

2003

Recorded

October 7 & 8, 2002

Carla Bley chronology

4 x 4
(1999)

Looking for America
(2002)

The Lost Chords
(2003)

Looking for America is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in 2002 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 2003.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Looking for America is a fun, innovative, and indefatigable album by one of the true geniuses in modern jazz".^[2] The JazzTimes review by Harvey Siders said "Inevitably, sardonic wit pervades her search on Looking for America as fragments of "The Star-Spangled Banner" materialize-dreamlike, impressionistically and, above all, whimsically-throughout the CD".^[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it 3⅓ stars stating "As an exploration of Americana, this is a fine and fun album".^[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Carla Bley except as indicated

"Grand Mother" - 0:53
"The National Anthem: OG Can UC?/Flags/Whose Broad Stripes?/Anthem/Keep It Spangled" - 21:49
"Step Mother" - 3:18
"Fast Lane" - 5:17
"Los Cocineros" - 10:57
"Your Mother" - 1:41
"Tijuana Traffic" - 8:05
"God Mother" - 1:27
"Old MacDonald Had a Farm" (Traditional) - 6:15

Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, NY on October 7 & 8, 2002.

Personnel

Carla Bley - piano, conductor
Earl Gardner, Lew Soloff, Byron Stripling, Giampaolo Casati - trumpet
Robert Routch - french horn (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 8)
Jim Pugh, Gary Valente, Dave Bargeron - trombone
David Taylor - bass trombone
Lawrence Feldman - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
Wolfgang Puschnig - alto saxophone, flute
Andy Sheppard - tenor saxophone
Gary Smulyan - baritone saxophone
Karen Mantler - organ, glockenspiel
Steve Swallow - bass guitar
Billy Drummond - drums
Don Alias - percussion

References

↑ Carla Bley discography accessed August 12, 2010
1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed August 12, 2010
↑ Siders, H. Looking for America Review JazzTimes, June, 2003
1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 131. ISBN 0-14-102327-9.

Carla Bley

Studio albums	Tropic Appetites (1974) Dinner Music (1977) European Tour 1977 (1978) Musique Mecanique (1979) Social Studies (1981) Live! (1982) I Hate to Sing (1984) Heavy Heart (1984) Sextet (1987) Fleur Carnivore (1989) The Very Big Carla Bley Band (1991) Big Band Theory (1993) The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church (1996) Fancy Chamber Music (1998) 4 x 4 (2000) Looking for America (2003) The Lost Chords (2004) The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu (2007) Appearing Nightly (2008) Carla's Christmas Carols (2009) Trios (2013)

With Gary Burton	A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967)

With Jazz Composer's Orchestra	The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968) Escalator over the Hill (1968-71) Relativity Suite (1973)

With Michael Mantler	Jazz Realities (1966)

With Charlie Haden	Liberation Music Orchestra (1969) The Ballad of the Fallen (1983) Dream Keeper (1990) Not in Our Name (2005)

With Nick Mason	Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1979)

With Steve Swallow	Night-Glo (1985) Duets (1988) Go Together (1992) Songs with Legs (1994) Are We There Yet? (1999)

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