Sextet (Carla Bley album)

Sextet
Studio album by
Carla Bley
Released1987
RecordedDecember 1986 & January 1987
StudioGrog Kill Studio, Willow, New York
GenreJazz, jazz fusion
Length40:58
LabelWatt/ECM
ProducerCarla Bley
Carla Bley chronology
Night-Glo
(1985) 		Sextet
(1987) 		Duets
(1988)

Sextet is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley, released on the Watt/ECM label in 1987.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Tom HullB+ ((1-star Honorable Mention))[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[4]

AllMusic's Richard S. Ginell stated: "The sound bathes in a polished golden ambience very much in keeping with a product distributed under the ECM banner".[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 2½ stars.[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Carla Bley.

  1. "More Brahms" - 7:31
  2. "Houses and People" - 7:26
  3. "The Girl Who Cried Champagne" - 6:08
  4. "Brooklyn Bridge" - 6:35
  5. "Lawns" - 7:06
  6. "Healing Power" - 6:22

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Carla Bley discography accessed August 5, 2010
  2. ^ ECM/WATT discography accessed August 25, 2016
  3. ^ a b Ginell, R. S. AllMusic Review accessed August 5, 2010
  4. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
  5. ^ Hull, Tom (28 February 2018). "Streamnotes". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 9 July 2020.