Sextet (album)

Sextet
Studio album by Carla Bley
Released 1987
Recorded December 1986 & January 1987
Genre Jazz
Length 40:58
Label Watt/ECM
Producer Carla Bley
Carla Bley chronology
Night-Glo
(1985)		 Sextet
(1986-7)		 Duets
(1988)

Sextet is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley released on the Watt/ECM label in 1987.[1]

Contents

Reception

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

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with a review by Richard S. Ginell stating, "The sound bathes in a polished golden ambience very much in keeping with a product distributed under the ECM banner".[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 2½ stars.[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Carla Bley
  1. "More Brahms" - 7:31
  2. "Houses and People" - 7:26
  3. "The Girl Who Cried Champagne" - 6:08
  4. "Brooklyn Bridge" - 6:35
  5. "Lawns" - 7:06
  6. "Healing Power" - 6:22
  • Recorded at Grog Kill Studio, Willow, New York in December 1986 and January 1987.

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Carla Bley discography accessed August 5, 2010
  2. ^ a b Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed August 5, 2010
  3. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992] (in English). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 131. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.