Looking for America (album)
Looking for America is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in 2002 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 2003.[1][2]
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| Released | 2003 | |||
| Recorded | October 7–8, 2002 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Watt/ECM | |||
| Producer | Steve Swallow | |||
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Reception
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Looking for America is a fun, innovative, and indefatigable album by one of the true geniuses in modern jazz".[3] The JazzTimes review by Harvey Siders said "Inevitably, sardonic wit pervades her search on Looking for America as fragments of "The Star-Spangled Banner" materialize-dreamlike, impressionistically and, above all, whimsically-throughout the CD".[4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it 3⅓ stars stating "As an exploration of Americana, this is a fine and fun album".[5]
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [3] |
| Penguin Guide to Jazz |  [5] |
Track listing
All compositions by Carla Bley except where noted.
- "Grand Mother" - 0:53
- "The National Anthem: OG Can UC?/Flags/Whose Broad Stripes?/Anthem/Keep It Spangled" - 21:49
- "Step Mother" - 3:18
- "Fast Lane" - 5:17
- "Los Cocineros" - 10:57
- "Your Mother" - 1:41
- "Tijuana Traffic" - 8:05
- "God Mother" - 1:27
- "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" (Traditional) - 6:15
- Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, NY on October 7 & 8, 2002.
Personnel
- Carla Bley - piano, conductor
- Earl Gardner, Lew Soloff, Byron Stripling, Giampaolo Casati - trumpet
- Robert Routch - french horn (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 8)
- Jim Pugh, Gary Valente, Dave Bargeron - trombone
- David Taylor - bass trombone
- Lawrence Feldman - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
- Wolfgang Puschnig - alto saxophone, flute
- Andy Sheppard - tenor saxophone
- Gary Smulyan - baritone saxophone
- Karen Mantler - organ, glockenspiel
- Steve Swallow - bass guitar
- Billy Drummond - drums
- Don Alias - percussion
References
- Carla Bley discography accessed August 12, 2010
- ECM/WATT discography Archived 2016-09-16 at the Wayback Machine accessed August 25, 2016
- Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed August 12, 2010
- Siders, H. Looking for America Review JazzTimes, June, 2003
- Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 131. ISBN 0-14-102327-9.