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| 1. | Preview / No Answer
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| 2. | Slow Orchestra Piece 3 (Prisonniers)
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| 3. | For Instance
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| 4. | Slow Orchestra Piece 8 (L'Abattoir)
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| 5. | When I run
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| 6. | The Remembered Visit
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| 7. | Slow Orchestra Piece 6
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| 8. | The Hapless Child
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| 9. | The Doubtful Guest
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Jazz
Recorded February 1987
Jack Bruce vocals
Michael Mantler trumpet
Rick Fenn guitar
Don Preston synthesizers
John Greaves bass, piano
Nick Mason drums
From a concert at The First International Art Rock Festival in Frankfurt, Germany, this Mantler ensemble certainly lives up to the art rock portion of the billing and trundles out a quasi-greatest-hits performance. With ex-members of bands like Cream, 10cc, the Mothers of Invention, Henry Cow, and Pink Floyd there are chops and pretensions aplenty, but Mantler's dour approach reigns in most extravagances and provides a largely compelling show. They begin with an odd interpolation of his ecstatic "Preview" (which originally featured explosive work by Pharoah Sanders) and "No Answer" from his album of the same name based on Samuel Beckett texts. Much of the rest of the disc seesaws between versions of his Edward Gorey songs from The Hapless Child and several dark instrumental passages featuring his own clear, bleak trumpet work. Jack Bruce's vocals on the former don't have quite the wit or passion of Robert Wyatt's in the original, however, and these pieces come off as somewhat flaccid interpretations. His insistent trilling of his rs grows tiresome after a while and makes it sound a little as if he considers the whole thing a bit of a joke. Nonetheless, the purely musical content of the pieces is solid and substantial, making Live a reasonable entryway to Mantler's world, especially for listeners coming in from a rock or prog rock point of view.
--- Brian Olewnick, All Music Guide
Michael Mantler
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Aug 10, 1943 in Vienna, Austria
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Avant-Garde, Avant-Garde Jazz
Never a major trumpeter, Michael Mantler was most important as an organizer of projects and for his work behind the scenes, most notably for the WATT label. After studying at the Vienna Academy of Music and University, he emigrated to the U.S. so as to attend Berklee in 1962. Mantler, who moved to New York two years later, played trumpet for a time with Cecil Taylor and in the mid-'60s, he helped with the formation of the Jazz Composer's Guild. He co-led a big band with Carla Bley, toured Europe in 1965-1966 with the Jazz Realities group (a quintet including Bley and Steve Lacy), and formed the Jazz Composers' Orchestra Association (JCOA), a non-profit organization that performed and recorded new music. Mantler, who married Carla Bley (their daughter is keyboardist Karen Mantler), recorded with Gary Burton (A Genuine Tong Funeral) and the JCOA (most notably Communications). He was also a part of Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. Mantler worked with Bley on her large projects, formed the New Music Distribution Service in 1972, and then the following year founded the label WATT Works with Bley. He has since recorded on an irregular basis for WATT (usually ambitious and somewhat dry works), led an occasional orchestra, and continued running the label.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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