Duets (Carla Bley & Steve Swallow album)

Duets is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley with bassist Steve Swallow recorded and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1988.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by David Nelson McCarthy awarded the album 4½ stars and stated that "their tremendous musical rapport and precise wit are really beautiful. It comes highly recommended".^[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it 3 stars, stating that it is "an entertaining album and an ideal primer on Bley's compositional and improvising techniques".^[3]

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

Track listing

All compositions by Carla Bley except as indicated

"Baby Baby" - 6:28
"Walking Batteriewoman" - 4:01
"Útviklingssang" - 4:42
"Ladies in Mercedes" (Steve Swallow) - 5:44
"Romantic Notion No. 3" - 7:02
"Remember" (Swallow) - 5:24
"Ups and Downs" - 6:16
"Reactionary Tango (In Three Parts)" (Bley, Swallow) - 8:44
"Soon I Will Be Done With the Troubles of This World" (Traditional) - 6:58

- Recorded at Grog Kill Studio, Willow, New York in the Summer of 1985.

Personnel

Carla Bley - piano
Steve Swallow - bass guitar

References

↑ Carla Bley discography accessed August 6, 2010
1 2 McCarthy, D. N. Allmusic Review accessed August 6, 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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