The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu is a highly attractive new studio album from Carla Bley. It introduces the pensive, romantic trumpet of Paolo Fresu to her Lost Chords ensemble and to the ECM-distributed WATT label. The recording features all new compositions from Bley that make the most of the great stylistic affinity between Fresu and British saxophonist Andy Sheppard. Carla has said that the blending of Fresu's sound with Sheppard's is the raison d'ętre for the current line-up, and it is beautifully explored on the whimsically titled "Banana Quintet," a suite of many moods. The Lost Chords was founded in 2003 when Carla Bley added her big band drummer Billy Drummond to her established trio with Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard, with whom she has collaborated for over 40 and 20 years respectively. Bley is one of the great composers of modern jazz and her writing has been compared to that of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus. Paolo Fresu is firmly established as one of the most interesting figures in the new Italian jazz, his clear vibratoless horn sound sometimes compared with that of Miles Davis.
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Sextet Music Artist : Carla Bley Music Label : Ecm Import Release Date : 2000-07-25 Artistopia's Price :$18.98
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The Lost Chords Music Artist : Carla Bley Music Label : Ecm Records Release Date : 2004-07-13 Artistopia's Price :$17.98
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This record kicks off with a suite based on "Three Blind Mice" - the first tune Carla learned to play as a child. The music has a nostalgic component, and is witty also in its allusions to modern jazz history, but it swings and dances and has terrific power. **This package includes a 16-page booklet with tour photos and liner notes.
"Carla Bley and her Remarkable Big Band", as the cover has it, in a resolutely contemporary performance of nostalgia-inflected material, recorded live! Rich and robust performances of new Bley material (plus an arrangement of a Ray Noble chestnut) with particularly stellar contributions by saxophone soloists Andy Sheppard and Wolfgang Puschnig, by trumpeter Lew Soloff, and trombonist Gary Valente. Centrepiece of the album is the 25 minute title track "Appearing Nightly At The Black Orchid" - commissioned for the Monterey Jazz Festival and heard here in a premiere recording. This major work reflects on Carla's first musical engagement as a pianist back in the 1950s, and alludes to the spirit and atmosphere of the jazz clubs of the day. The spirit of Gershwin informs Carla's "Someone To Watch". And "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" is a rare instance of Carla arranging another musician's work.
