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Track Listing
1. What Will Be Left Between Us and the Moon Tonight?
2. In India
3. Enormous Tots
4. Caucasian Bird Riffles
5. Funnybird Song
6. Indonesian Dock Sucking Supreme
7. Song of the Jungle Stream
8. Nothing
Album Notes
Personnel: Carla Bley (vocals, recorder, piano, electric piano, celeste, Clavinet, organ, marimba, percussion); Howard Johnson (vocals, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano, baritone & bass saxophones); Julie Tippetts (vocals); David Holland (cello, acoustic & electric basses); Toni Marcus (violin, viola); Gato Barbieri (tenor saxophone, percussion); Michael Mantler (trumpet, valve trombone); Paul Motian (drums, percussion).
Recorded at Blue Rock Studio, New York, New York & Island Studios, London, England between September 1973 & February 1974.
After the sprawling and ambitious ESCALATOR OVER THE HILL, which found Carla Bley setting the words of Paul Haines to music, the pair undertook this much more relaxed album of separate songs. As always, Bley's choice of players is critical to the project; here she's in sterling and sympathetic company again. Tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri is a featured soloists and drummer Paul Motian and bass player David Holland deftly propel the rhythm section. The vocalist is the under-celebrated Julie Tippetts.
There are also several "character" roles sung by tuba and reed player Howard Johnson, Bley herself, and her's and Michael Mantler's daughter, the approximately ten-year-old Karen Mantler. Bley's compositions and arrangements buoy the lyrics and envelop Tippetts in wonderful and mysterious ways--"Song Of The Jungle Stream" moves between vocal and instrumental passages like a journey down a rain forest river.
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