Carla Bley - Heavy Heart (1984)

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Artist: Carla Bley
Title: Heavy Heart
Year Of Release: 1984
Label: WATT Works[WATT/14]
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 39:02
Total Size: 228 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. Light or Dark (C.Bley) - 6:05
02. Talking Hearts (C.Bley) - 6:50
03. Joyful Noise (C.Bley) - 5:08
04. Ending It (C.Bley) - 6:04
05. Starting Again (C.Bley) - 5:04
06. Heavy Heart (C.Bley) - 9:51

personnel :

Carla Bley - organ, synthesizer
Steve Slagle - flute, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
Hiram Bullock - guitar
Gary Valente - trombone
Kenny Kirkland - piano
Steve Swallow - bass
Victor Lewis - drums
Manolo Badrena - percussion
Michael Mantler - trumpet
Earl McIntyre - tuba

In a fanciful press release for this record, Carla Bley wrote that she wanted to make a record that would "put people in a mellow, sensual mood" as opposed to getting them all riled up as usual. She must have meant some of this ironically, for while Heavy Heart is a somewhat bright, light-minded album, there are plenty of dark undercurrents to be heard. For example, take the fascinating "Light or Dark," where a light, happy texture is undercut by Hiram Bullock's intruding dissonant guitar and Kenny Kirkland's discordant comping. Or the ominously titled "Ending It," with Gary Valente's abrasive trombone dominating everyone -- or the dissonant, almost inaudible wind backings to Kirkland's big-hearted piano on "Starting Again." In any case, Bley's iconoclastic imagination and ear for unusual sonorities is definitely in gear writing for her ten-tet -- and true to her word, a number like "Talking Hearts," an alleged romantic dialogue between Bullock's smooth guitar and Bley's sly synthesizer, is saunteringly attractive stuff.~Richard S. Ginell

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