It is hard for me to believe that this has only 415 views. Carla Bley is so awesome! Her compositions, arrangements and the players who she gets to play them are all superlative. Her big bands are consistently the best I have ever heard. I hope more people discover this musical treasure.
Steve Swallow- bass Carl Bley -piano Arturo O'Farrill - organ D Sharpe- drums Mike Mantler- trumpet Vincent Chancey -French horn Steve Slagle - soprano sax Tony DaGradi- tenor sax Gary Valente- trombone Earl McIntyre- tuba
Ok. Band is perfunctory offa charts. Not enough swing, sabrosa. Snare should be snapping more. Horns are lacking frisson, no listening to each others parts. Yeah, it's a written piece Ms. Bley is rightfully proud of, but too stern task-mistress. Maybe why US jazz cats kept a notorious distance. She needs to open the piece up; give performers some room to room n groove. Even Astor Piazzola understood that. Tango is about the soul and body in the moment.
And nobody has posted Escalator Over the Hill! (I'm too old to have any hair left to tear out...) Haven't heard the full triple lp box since '70s college. Harrumph.
Love this piece and all of Carla Bley's compositions and her keyboard playing. Her writing for the backgrounds is great. Steve Swallow always sounds wonderful, all the way back to the days when he played stand-up acoustic bass.
Thanks noahvale939 ! I have no doubt that Carla Blay is one of the most important Composers and Bandleaders of Jazz of recent time . I think , as Duke Ellingtion , she always was , and is letting the Band - Members and Solists , enfold themselves , and herself is stepping a little bit in the background .... dear greetings p.m.
Hello Marc Kustin , this composition i like especially. Ms. Bley is a great Composer and Bandleader . She allways understood and understands to combine Avantgarde withTradition . Thanks peter
Great. Beautiful melodic emotional playing by Swallow. The band is wonderful, the writing classic Carla and it's good to see my old bud D Sharpe on the drums.
There I was, coming into Poland from France I did attend this festival called Jazz Jamboree, that was in Warsaw on Nov 29, 1981. They also performed "the internationale" (and more of course), US & West European musicians playing behind the Iron Curtain since around 1959...
Thank you, Peteratanas, for posting this. Carla is one of the great ones. I was lucky enough to interview her about the time of this album. She was the best interview i ever had in my choppy career as a jazz critic who was paid in free LPs.
Thanks , James Murray , for that information . i never had the opportunity to talk to Mrs. Bley . In my `second job ` I am working for Otmar Klammer ...he runs a small jazz club in graz , austria ( since more than 25 years ) He was very proud , when " downbeat " -magazine was mentioning his Club " stockwerk jazz" as one of the 200 fine places for jazz in the world . he managed it , that carla bley was signing some of my CD´s of her . i would have been to shy to ask... all the best peteratanas
Koncert z Jazz Jamboree 1981 w Warszawie, a brak polskiego komentarza. Z tego co widać i słychać na końcu, to publiczność w Sali Kongresowej występ przyjęła entuzjastycznie. Słuchając tego po wielu latach, też przyłączam się do tych braw. Muzyka ta nadal brzmi przejmująco.
I always come back to thinking on what she was trying to do, and i just think its impossible to contain yourself from such beautiful music, music has moved me in so many ways.
"Music is a social art. If you don't let others in you're going to have a very lonely life." Chick Corea said. Maybe that's why so many people mourn his passing.
Hello Rod, no doubt, in europe we think the same way. Carla is a world class composer and musican. I am not sporty, but basketball is one of most elegant sports i know. the best, peter
merci , dear jeanne zaragoza ! i had the chance to see carla bley and , steve swallow and andy sheppard ...carla bley trio.. live in graz 2013 dez. , she was here for a month , playing with music students.... +++ .. gave several concerts ..... i was at the concert with her trio . ... and it was.... breathtaking...... all 3 musicians were totally together ... merci , peter postscriptum : i was always in love with french music , too . in pop / rock music with les rita mitsouko , in chanson especially with jaques brel..+++ but here now a hint for a british musician , who sings french , too ...bill pritchard... une parisienne.....Bill Pritchard live @ Tv studio 5 _Une parisienne_.flv
This is a concert of Carla Bley in Poland, shortly after the release of Poland from the communist regime. Carla Bley is not only pretty here but also witty when she asks Poles of not clapping between the parts of the concert, i.e. asks them for behaving like in a classical music concert. Poles were then known of their contribution to the classical music (Chopin, etc). Poles either did not understand what she was saying to them in English or they perfectly picked it up as a joke, as in fact it was a joke. They clapped.
Many thanks for your reaction on that piece of music of Carla Bley ! For my opinion a little bit of irony is in her statement (..`do not clap between the pauses` ) ..I guess she expected that . Today everyone is giving ovations for almost everything that seems glorious or famous . dear greetings peter ps: i like your interpretation of Lo que más te gustó de mi - (Enrique Bunbury) Renee Jiménez ua-cam.com/video/Jp4bA6ajMLw/v-deo.html
Extraordinaires musiciens! Oui, Gary Valente, mais ce saxo soprano est envoûtant! Et le son d'orgue Hammond, plutôt rarement utilisé en jazz... sans parler de cet excellent bassiste!
Carla Bley is a composer as brilliant and classy as can be. Her approach of big band may be too rigorous or logical for many (I need some Willem Breuker Band or Fanfara Ciocirlia from time to time, myself, but I had almost all her LPs on tape). And... Steve Swallow certainly is my favorite bass player : he makes it "cry and sing", ain't he ?
@jbell94521....hello jbell94521.... thank you for watching carla bleys live performance of ´reactionary tango`..... a good girlfriend of mine told me , that carla bley recently had a l concert in weiz , austria , a smalltown / may , 2012 /..... she was there and enjoyed it very much..... best wishes from austria , p. m. p. s . : wonderfull music , on your channel , links
Célafait. 50 ans qùe je l'àime Michel , qùî l'a. Vu. Plusieurs fois. ....quelle chançe. ....jél'àîme ne l'aime. Je l'aime .... Énvie de la. Revoir a Rôùen. Mais c'est pas sur ...adieù... Je t'aîme
@@peteratanas It may be inspired by tango, but it's definitely not tango. And not only the harmonic vocabulary, but also the rhythm rather evokes associations with Weill's early work, like the Threepenny Opera
Are you sure it isn't Earl McIntyre? He also worked with Carla, and also played tuba and bass bone. This guy looks a bit young and a bit skinny for Howard. Plus, I think that during that period, Howard was in the SNL Band.
Swallow on bass, Valente on trombone, Mantler on trumpet, Vincent Chancey on French Horn, prob. Earl McIntyre , on tuba, Tony Dagradi on tenor, D. Sharpe on drums and ? on organ
@Rolf Trappmann I didn't take any offense. We all come from different experience. Maybe you could say database of the mind. Seems you are an ardent fan.
Es habanera, le dicen tango habanera, pero no tiene nada que ver con el tango porteño de Buenos Aires. Es como el bolero de Ravel, que tampoco es bolero, es habanera jaja
Please please… and i can’t stress this enough, there will be no clapping between the three movements of this tango… thou shalt not clap after movement two. Nor shalt thou clap after movement three… ah… wait i mean movement one. You may clap before we start the piece, however most generally the clapping for this piece should be reserved for only after movement three… Or I’ll send our bass player Steve Swallow (not to be confused with an African Swallow) out there to spank each and every one of the audience members that incorrectly react during the performance of this.. ah these tangos that make up this one tango. lol
The music is good. Bley's attitude? Not so much. (a) Telling the audience they should not applaud after each movement is one thing. Going on about how "serious" the piece is is another. Bley is a bit pretentious, if you ask me. (b) Calling the piece "Reactionary Tango" seems to be a riposte directed against Astor Piazzola and his "new wave" conception of the tango. I know the CORRECT way to write tangos, she seems to say. Unlike that radical Piazzola.
It is hard for me to believe that this has only 415 views. Carla Bley is so awesome! Her compositions, arrangements and the players who she gets to play them are all superlative. Her big bands are consistently the best I have ever heard. I hope more people discover this musical treasure.
Yes yes yes
Beautiful music. Unfortunately most people these days get their music from a tv show where people wear masks and try to sing. 🖖
@@subdudebass7687 Unfortunately true. Sad.
Apparently now more than 73,000 have watched and listened!
@@danielandries6998 94 k !
Soon more than 100 000 :)
Steve Swallow- bass
Carl Bley -piano
Arturo O'Farrill - organ
D Sharpe- drums
Mike Mantler- trumpet
Vincent Chancey -French horn
Steve Slagle - soprano sax
Tony DaGradi- tenor sax
Gary Valente- trombone
Earl McIntyre- tuba
I'm so happy for folks like you existing
That was the most mindblowing wonderful Tango I've ever heard. RIP dear and unique Carla Bley.
May Carla Bley rest in peace. And may her family and friends be healed and comforted.
This was a great line up of talent that C B united great post cheers
An absolute gem. What a joy to actually get to see this in performance!
Ok. Band is perfunctory offa charts. Not enough swing, sabrosa. Snare should be snapping more. Horns are lacking frisson, no listening to each others parts. Yeah, it's a written piece Ms. Bley is rightfully proud of, but too stern task-mistress. Maybe why US jazz cats kept a notorious distance. She needs to open the piece up; give performers some room to room n groove. Even Astor Piazzola understood that. Tango is about the soul and body in the moment.
Carla Bley always attracted the best musicians to play her works. This music sounds great. Been buying her albums ever since "Escalator..."
And nobody has posted Escalator Over the Hill!
(I'm too old to have any hair left to tear out...)
Haven't heard the full triple lp box since '70s college. Harrumph.
Love this piece and all of Carla Bley's compositions and her keyboard playing. Her writing for the backgrounds is great. Steve Swallow always sounds wonderful, all the way back to the days when he played stand-up acoustic bass.
Thanks noahvale939 !
I have no doubt that Carla Blay is one of the most important Composers and Bandleaders of Jazz of recent time . I think , as Duke Ellingtion , she always was , and is letting the Band - Members and Solists , enfold themselves , and herself is stepping a little bit in the background ....
dear greetings
p.m.
Carla Bley one of the best composer and arranger of the times, i love your music since eighties. Thanks for sahring, saludos desde Mexico
Woaooo!!...no doubt this is a Masterpiece, Carla Bley was a Master ( RIP )
The most emblematic piece about Carla Bleys' talent
huge fan of big band Bley ! in particlular the work with the late charlie haden. exciting stuff !!
Thank you , peter . I agree with your point of view.
peter atanas , austria
Superb. Carla Bley is a treasure.
Yhank you peteratanas for posting this little treasure from Carla Bley
Ms. Bley is a treasure. Her Reactionary Tango in all it's recordings is one of my favorites.
Hello Marc Kustin ,
this composition i like especially. Ms. Bley is a great Composer and Bandleader . She allways understood and understands to combine Avantgarde withTradition .
Thanks
peter
Réellement un trésor!
Great. Beautiful melodic emotional playing by Swallow. The band is wonderful, the writing classic Carla and it's good to see my old bud D Sharpe on the drums.
Thank you , SunSound7 , for your impressions
p.
D Sharpe is the perfect drummer for Carla Bley's music.
One of my favorite tracks of all time. So great to find it here!!!! Yay Carla - thanks for everything!
Great music and fantastic musicians! Thanks for sharing.
Thank`s Fabio for your nice and kind comment . I try to go on with good stuff .
peter
This is music from heaven!
J'en suis depuis très longtemps convaincu !
So great to reconnect with this music 30 years after discovering it. It's still so sublimely cool. thanks so much for posting.
❤ Love to you forever Carla
Carla Bley, Oh what a musical genious! Que viva la música!
Carla Bley with her group is a wonderful discovery for me.
Qué belleza! This is Music
There I was, coming into Poland from France I did attend this festival called Jazz Jamboree, that was in Warsaw on Nov 29, 1981. They also performed "the internationale" (and more of course), US & West European musicians playing behind the Iron Curtain since around 1959...
Thank you, Peteratanas, for posting this. Carla is one of the great ones. I was lucky enough to interview her about the time of this album. She was the best interview i ever had in my choppy career as a jazz critic who was paid in free LPs.
Thanks , James Murray , for that information . i never had the opportunity to talk to Mrs. Bley . In my `second job ` I am working for Otmar Klammer ...he runs a small jazz club in graz , austria ( since more than 25 years ) He was very proud , when " downbeat " -magazine was mentioning his Club " stockwerk jazz" as one of the 200 fine places for jazz in the world . he managed it , that carla bley was signing some of my CD´s of her . i would have been to shy to ask...
all the best
peteratanas
Don't EVER work for free, unless it's for charity
A sad day. Carla Bley - the girl who cried champagne RIP.
AMAZING. GENIAL.. REST IN PEACE
Koncert z Jazz Jamboree 1981 w Warszawie, a brak polskiego komentarza. Z tego co widać i słychać na końcu, to publiczność w Sali Kongresowej występ przyjęła entuzjastycznie. Słuchając tego po wielu latach, też przyłączam się do tych braw. Muzyka ta nadal brzmi przejmująco.
and thank you peteratanas for making this classic piece available here.
public didn't really understand.. this is a classical composition , wonderful ♥
seriously beautiful !!!!!!!!!
Lovely
One of my absolute favorites of hers. Rest in peace Carla.
I have this album. Beautiful. Thanks!
Mercie , album `Social Studies` still moves me, after all the years.
atanas
Wonderful Music!!!
Just cool. Very classical.
Fantastíca
rest in peace my master
Espléndida música.
"Please don't clap between the sections."
Five minutes later, audience immediately claps at the first pause.
a true portrait of your typical concert
... I think she wuz kidding..
I always come back to thinking on what she was trying to do, and i just think its impossible to contain yourself from such beautiful music, music has moved me in so many ways.
Did it myself at a classical concert. Felt like a fool but the pianist gave me a nice smile.
"Music is a social art. If you don't let others in you're going to have a very lonely life." Chick Corea said. Maybe that's why so many people mourn his passing.
happy birthday Carla!
One of our great American composers.
Hello Rod, no doubt, in europe we think the same way. Carla is a world class composer and musican.
I am not sporty, but basketball is one of most elegant sports i know.
the best,
peter
Entre la música más bella de la Historia
precius document, very good!
thank you for your positive reaction and statement. for me , this is important music .
all the best,
peteratanas
merci , dear jeanne zaragoza ! i had the chance to see carla bley and , steve swallow and andy sheppard ...carla bley trio.. live in graz 2013 dez. , she was here for a month , playing with music students.... +++ .. gave several concerts ..... i was at the concert with her trio . ... and it was.... breathtaking...... all 3 musicians were totally together ...
merci ,
peter
postscriptum : i was always in love with french music , too . in pop / rock music with les rita mitsouko , in chanson especially with jaques brel..+++ but here now a hint for a british musician , who sings french , too ...bill pritchard... une parisienne.....Bill Pritchard live @ Tv studio 5 _Une parisienne_.flv
+peteratanas thanks for your comment
Thanks ,Peteranas
Bien sur
Merci.
Incredible
This is a concert of Carla Bley in Poland, shortly after the release of Poland from the communist regime. Carla Bley is not only pretty here but also witty when she asks Poles of not clapping between the parts of the concert, i.e. asks them for behaving like in a classical music concert. Poles were then known of their contribution to the classical music (Chopin, etc). Poles either did not understand what she was saying to them in English or they perfectly picked it up as a joke, as in fact it was a joke. They clapped.
Perfectly.
hermoso
Rien l'ennuie mais que j'aime
Love it !
The great Steve Swallow on electric bass.
Hate when people just don't understand the part of "not clapping"-_-
Many thanks for your reaction on that piece of music of Carla Bley ! For my opinion a little bit of irony is in her statement (..`do not clap between the pauses` ) ..I guess she expected that . Today everyone is giving ovations for almost everything that seems glorious or famous .
dear greetings
peter
ps: i like your interpretation of
Lo que más te gustó de mi - (Enrique Bunbury) Renee Jiménez
ua-cam.com/video/Jp4bA6ajMLw/v-deo.html
There were some pretty dim bulbs in that audience. Most of them caught on by the second pause though.
1:00 - I part; 5:20 - II part; 8:55 - III part
Extraordinaires musiciens! Oui, Gary Valente, mais ce saxo soprano est envoûtant! Et le son d'orgue Hammond, plutôt rarement utilisé en jazz... sans parler de cet excellent bassiste!
Carla Bley is a composer as brilliant and classy as can be. Her approach of big band may be too rigorous or logical for many (I need some Willem Breuker Band or Fanfara Ciocirlia from time to time, myself, but I had almost all her LPs on tape). And... Steve Swallow certainly is my favorite bass player : he makes it "cry and sing", ain't he ?
thanks , for your comment and information , i think steve swallow is "carrying" this tune ( and many others ) with his captivating bass playing .
p.
7:00 YES Tuba SOLO
@jbell94521....hello jbell94521.... thank you for watching carla bleys live performance of ´reactionary tango`..... a good girlfriend of mine told me , that carla bley recently had a l concert in weiz , austria , a smalltown / may , 2012 /..... she was there and enjoyed it very much.....
best wishes from austria ,
p. m.
p. s . : wonderfull music , on your channel , links
trop forte
Dear fucking Google: Please no break between chapters. Even no commercials! It's great art. Hear what Carla says and please respect it!
around the 8:02 mark you can faintly hear the soprano sax accidentaly doing an early entry. we're all human!
Gallagher on soprano sax! Gallagher just being Gallagher, I guess.
❤️
still have a crush on her
❤😢❤
Unlike keith jarrett she said coughing is o.k...thank you carla. Very serious😬...otherwise wonderful music!
Does the FULL concert performance on video appear anywhere here on You Tube, please? Thanks!
Célafait. 50 ans qùe je l'àime
Michel , qùî l'a. Vu. Plusieurs fois. ....quelle chançe. ....jél'àîme
ne l'aime.
Je l'aime ....
Énvie de la. Revoir a Rôùen. Mais c'est pas sur ...adieù... Je t'aîme
wonderful habanera, miss tango hier...
Sublime, but then again I’ve never heard a Carla Bley piece that I don’t like
Very Kurt Weill. Liking-issimo.
i don´t think so, ....did kurt weil tango ?
greetings
peter
@@peteratanas It may be inspired by tango, but it's definitely not tango. And not only the harmonic vocabulary, but also the rhythm rather evokes associations with Weill's early work, like the Threepenny Opera
Who is on Organ, Tenor, Tuba and Drums please? Thanks!
70,694 views by Nov 11, 2011
Vous faites chier à n'importe quel heure qu'elle bonheur
Entire concert please?
thanks ,
sadly , i don`t have the entire concert .
greetings p.
@@peteratanas no problem. Cheers.
I assume that's Howard Johnson on tuba? RIP
this is very serious
Is Howard Johnson playing Tuba? He's a great musician.🌝🌅
Yes. It's Howard.❤️❤️❤️
Are you sure it isn't Earl McIntyre? He also worked with Carla, and also played tuba and bass bone. This guy looks a bit young and a bit skinny for Howard. Plus, I think that during that period, Howard was in the SNL Band.
Far too young to be Howard Johnson.
Lineup?
Swallow on bass, Valente on trombone, Mantler on trumpet, Vincent Chancey on French Horn, prob. Earl McIntyre , on tuba, Tony Dagradi on tenor, D. Sharpe on drums and ? on organ
oups Steve Slagle on soprano for sure
the pretty young (20 yo) organist is Arturo O'Farrill (Chico's son !)
Yummy
sounds a bit zappa-ish very cool
Perspective. Zappa sounds a bit Bley-lish.
In this peace i hear her salute to: Kurt Weil
@Rolf Trappmann Thanks for raising my awareness of my cerebral associations.
@Rolf Trappmann I didn't take any offense. We all come from different experience. Maybe you could say database of the mind. Seems you are an ardent fan.
DE TANGO NO TIENE NADA!
Es habanera, le dicen tango habanera, pero no tiene nada que ver con el tango porteño de Buenos Aires. Es como el bolero de Ravel, que tampoco es bolero, es habanera jaja
Please please… and i can’t stress this enough, there will be no clapping between the three movements of this tango… thou shalt not clap after movement two. Nor shalt thou clap after movement three… ah… wait i mean movement one.
You may clap before we start the piece, however most generally the clapping for this piece should be reserved for only after movement three…
Or I’ll send our bass player Steve Swallow (not to be confused with an African Swallow) out there to spank each and every one of the audience members that incorrectly react during the performance of this.. ah these tangos that make up this one tango.
lol
Et puisque 0
lol That hairdew
jajajaj eso no es tango carajo! saludos desde Argentina!!!
este concepto gringo del tango es un estereotipo de mala calidad de lo que es el verdadero tango argentino
Thus, the word "reactionary"?
Dont make other music bad.
The music is good. Bley's attitude? Not so much. (a) Telling the audience they should not applaud after each movement is one thing. Going on about how "serious" the piece is is another. Bley is a bit pretentious, if you ask me. (b) Calling the piece "Reactionary Tango" seems to be a riposte directed against Astor Piazzola and his "new wave" conception of the tango. I know the CORRECT way to write tangos, she seems to say. Unlike that radical Piazzola.
I don't think that's what she was meaning...
You missed the fact that she herself was not being serious when she said that. She has a fantastic sense of humor in her life and music.
It seemed to me that she was just joking.
Exactly! She was smiling when she said how 'serious' it was; I'd say it's one of the more 'unserious' (i.e. playful) pieces I know..
i found piazzolas youtube account
jajajaj eso no es tango carajo! saludos desde Argentina!!!