The Jazz Composer's Orchestra / Michael Mantler

[ep1str0phy]

IIRC, some of the score is printed in the booklet that came with the LP.

Yeah (I have a CD copy, but the print is really small). To those who were there--was the Cecil number arranged as on the album?

[brownie]

If anyone knows where a CD copy of this album can be purchased (*), or is selling one, please PM! I'm aching to hear this record.

* If buying it directly from ECM in Munich for (approximately) $30 is the only route — well, I guess that's what I'll have to do. When it was available domestically (U.S.), it was around $13.

Late, check Amazon.com

[erhodes]

To those who were there--was the Cecil number arranged as on the album?

Yes...essentially the same arrangement with no pause between parts 1 and 2.

[AllenLowe]

get the music, if you will, but don't try and talk to Mantler, who's a nasty SOB -

[brownie]

don't try and talk to Mantler, who's a nasty SOB -

Thomas Bernhard would have said 'typical Austrian'.

[Guest donald petersen]

did he write "the woodcutters"?

i was reading that on the subway the other day. it was aight.

[brownie]

did he write "the woodcutters"?

i was reading that on the subway the other day. it was aight.

Yes, the unique Thomas Bernhard. Haven't read that one. 'Holzfallen' is the original title. It does not seem to have been translated into French!

[Clunky]

Picked up this on LP today, a toss up between this and a Gene Ammon's LP. I left Bad Bossa in the racks on the basis that the Mantler would be more challenging and something new.

It's certainly quite challenging. Cecil Taylor seems to get plenty of space in what are forbiddingly impenetrable charts. A quick run through does suggest the need to play loud but what will have to wait till a more suitable time.

[Guy Berger]

Just listening to this on CD (picked it up as an import from amazon). Wow. The earlier pieces will probably require some more time for absorption but Cyrille and Taylor are out of frickin control (in a good way) in the last two pieces. A masterpiece.

[Chuck Nessa]

Just listening to this on CD (picked it up as an import from amazon). Wow. The earlier pieces will probably require some more time for absorption but Cyrille and Taylor are out of frickin control (in a good way) in the last two pieces. A masterpiece.