Carla Bley

Originally Posted by Mike

I bought Big Band Theory on iTunes after listening to the sample on your site, Robin.

I'm sure Carla now owes you some commission!

An excellent choice!!

FYI, the majority of the band are UK cats - Guy Barker, Steve Waterman, Richard Edwards, Andy Sheppard, Julian Argüelles at el.

Gorgeous:

YouTube Video

Carla Bley with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra: 'Adagio' (Samuel Barber)

(Original Source)

She conducts? wow....barbers adagio tear jerking performance..

I'm sorry, this is just a personal thing, but I can't stand wind transcriptions of works for strings or a cappella chorus (I'm lookin at you Eric Whitacre, barf). Pretty good performance though...except for that trumpet player. I'm pretty sure jazz musicians are taught about intonation and good tone too, I guess he slept in during that class.

Originally Posted by gms5287

Pretty good performance though...except for that trumpet player. I'm pretty sure jazz musicians are taught about intonation and good tone too, I guess he slept in during that class.

Fair enough, I certainly can't disagree with that. Poor guy had an off night - In his defense, I did hear him live with that band this summer, and he was spot on.