CURRENT CD RELEASE

MICHAEL MANTLER
REVIEW

Composer/trumpeter Mantler offers a review of his career (so far), a personal 'best-of' that goes all the way back to 1968 and traces his path from the Jazz Composer's Orchestra onwards, though his highly personal body of work on JCOA, WATT and ECM which includes many settings of literary texts (Beckett, Pinter, Auster, etc.) and juxtaposing of players from the worlds of jazz, classical music and rock. Twenty two tracks or excerpts (75 minutes in total) drawn from the albums Hide and Seek, Songs & One Symphony, The School of Understanding, Cerco Un Paese Innocente, Folly Seeing All This, Many Have No Speech, Live, Alien, Something There, Movies, Silence, The Hapless Child, 13 (first time on CD), No Answer, and The Jazz Composer's Orchestra. It's good to be reminded of the extraordinary line-ups Mantler has assembled over the years. Drummers here, for instance, range from Tony Williams and Jack DeJohnette to the Pink Floyd's Nick Mason. Singers include Jack Bruce, Robert Wyatt, Marianne Faithful. Don Cherry can he heard on trumpet, and Pharoah Sanders raises the roof with ecstatic tenor sax, plus a diversity of guitarists such as Terje Rypdal and Larry Coryell. (ECM Press Release)


ECM 1813
CD 985 3283


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FUTURE

Michael Mantler / Kammerensemble Neue Musik - Concertos Project

Michael Mantler is currently working on the CD production of his "Concertos" project featuring the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, conducted by Roland Kluttig, and soloists Roswell Rudd (trombone), Bob Rockwell (tenor saxophone), Bjarne Roupé (guitar), Majella Stockhausen (piano), Pedro Carneiro (marimba and vibraphone), Nick Mason (percussion), Michael Mantler (trumpet).

Tentative release date by ECM Records: Fall 2008