Carla Bley

So this cut was produced by Matt Pearson, a great band.

It was arranged by Carla Bley.

It's Carla Bley on piano, Steve Swallow on bass, Peter Erskine on drums, Chuck Loeb and Jeff Marinov on guitars, and the great Art Farmer playing his customized flute horn.

In the yellow house Life was ideal By definition, something one imagines Painters, brothers, friends

At least till the end came

And I think today, when we talk about spiritual jazz as a contemporary form, a lot of the time, especially if you're talking about British artists, like people on the Gondwana label, you're talking about people whose very explicit key musical reference point is still Alice Coltrane.

i think that's it and that is interesting it's obviously it's interesting in terms of the kind of gender policy it's interesting in terms of the fact that you know there's a real desire to make sure that women aren't occluded from musical histories you know i first got really interested in jazz in the late 80s when i was a teenager and at that time alice coltrane was still really regarded as a bit of a footnote the the one like woman kind of band leader who was considered important from the early 70s was Carla Bley but of course you know it's all it's it's interesting to reflect as well that the the love is the message is patron saint kind of David Mancuso like was a big always a big fan about the

sport I don't I sometimes find listening to her is quite is quite is like more difficult than listening to a lot of spiritual jazz like you think it's going to be more spirit it's kind of leans more towards free jazz a lot of the time than The spiritual side.

But maybe I'm ignorant on this.

Yeah.

And in the booklet of the album, there's just like this very small sentence that you added that is very personal where you're saying, when Carla met Irene, she gave her her flowers.

Yes, that's true.

Irene is your mother?

we were

playing, the trio was playing.

My mother came backstage after the show, and it was one of those festivals where at the end of the gig, people came on the stage with the big bouquet of flowers for Carla, that kind of thing.

They give you flowers and roses.

Everyone went crazy for the music, so we decided to record that.

Then, um, it was Steve's turn to come up with an idea, and he had the thought of focusing on the music of Carla Bley, who he got to play with quite a bit.

And I studied with Steve Swallow as a, as a young person.

Oh, he was just on recently.

that album

Well, there was a Carla Bley episode a few months back that came up.

And who's the singer on that album, my friend? I do not remember.

Robert Wyatt.

Oh my goodness.

Okay, so I have heard Robert Wyatt before and didn't even realize it.

Robert Wyatt does 80% of the lead vocals that aren't Carla Bley on that album.

Nick