- avant-garde jazz, third stream, experimental big band
- 121 min
- 27 tracks
- ECM Records
Escalator over the Hill is mostly referred to as a jazz opera, but it was released as a "chronotransduction", with "words by Paul Haines, adaptation and music by Carla Bley, production and coordination by Michael Mantler", performed by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra.
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Character
Prestige, contemporary, open-ended and epic.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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Tracks
- 1Hotel Overture13:12
- 2This Is Here…5:56
- 3Like Animals1:21
- 4Escalator Over the Hill4:52
- 5Stay Awake1:31
- 6Ginger and David1:40
- 7Song to Anything That Moves2:21
- 8EOTH Theme0:36
- 9Businessmen5:39
- 10Ginger and David Theme0:57
- 11Why2:19
- 12It’s Not What You Do0:16
- 13Detective Writer Daughter3:17
- 14Doctor Why1:28
- 15Slow Dance (Transductory Music)1:51
- 16Smalltown Agonist5:24
- 1End of Head0:38
- 2Over Her Head2:38
- 3Little Pony Soldier4:36
- 4Oh Say Can You Do?1:08
- 5Holiday in Risk3:10
- 6Holiday in Risk Theme0:48
- 7A.I.R. (All India Radio)3:55
- 8Rawalpindi Blues12:42
- 9End of Rawalpindi9:36
- 10End of Animals1:26
- 11…and It’s Again27:17
27 tracks, 121 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Carla Bley, Paul Haines
- Label
- ECM Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- AF
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