The Very Big Carla Bley Band

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 2½ stars and stated "The result is a fairly solid, if slightly bland, date that may cause the listener to pine for her earlier "excesses"... in the end, Bley's themes and structures tend more toward the competent than the stirring or memorable, leaving one desirous of the richer fare that she has served in the past".^[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it 3 stars stating "A stirring live outfit the Very Big Band translates well to record, with plenty of emphasis on straightfoward blowing from featured soloists".^[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Carla Bley

"United States" - 15:32
"Strange Arrangement" - 7:46
"All Fall Down" - 12:46
"Who Will Rescue You?" - 7:12
"Lo Ultimo" - 9:25

Recorded at Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg, Germany on October 29 & 30, 1990.

Personnel

Carla Bley - piano
Lew Soloff, Guy Barker, Claude Deppa, Steven Bernstein - trumpet
Gary Valente, Richard Edwards, Fayyaz Virji - trombone
Ashley Slater - bass trombone
Roger Janotta - oboe, flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone
Wolfgang Puschnig - alto saxophone, flute
Andy Sheppard - tenor saxophone, clarinet
Pete Hurt - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Pablo Calogero - baritone saxophone
Karen Mantler - organ
Steve Swallow - bass guitar
Victor Lewis - drums
Don Alias - percussion

References

↑ Carla Bley discography accessed August 9, 2010
1 2 Olewnick, B. Allmusic Review accessed August 9, 2010
1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.

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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