Carla Bley, Sextet - 41m 13s

Tracks & Durations

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	6:21

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Review

Recorded in 1987, Sextet belongs with Heavy Heart and Night-Glo as a radical departure for Bley from her big bands' frequent high-art mix of satire and experimentation. Here, she's emphasizing relaxed grooves, almost straight-ahead melodies, and a lush carpet of electronic sounds. If Erik Satie has always been a key inspiration for Bley, this is her equivalent to his "furniture music," intended as functional, comfortable, and lightly entertaining. It's all of that, with Bley's Hammond B-3 creating warm grooves in a polished band of Hiram Bullock on guitar, Larry Willis on piano, Victor Lewis on drums, Don Alias on percussion, and Steve Swallow on bass. The slow "Lawns" has beautiful piano playing from Willis, while "Healing Power" is restrained, deeply felt gospel. This may aspire to be background music, but it has some surprising depths that take time to reveal themselves. --Stuart Broomer

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Sextet

Tracks: 6, Disk length: 41m 15s (+0m 2s)

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