Carla Bley’s 1970s Experimental Masterpiece Gets a Belated Premiere
Cultic and unclassifiable — “clearly some sort of monstrous hybrid” — Bley’s “Escalator Over the Hill,” a 1971 album, is being staged at the New School.
Posted inGillespie, Dizzy Jazz Latin Music O'Farrill, Arturo O'Farrill, Chico Pozo, Chano Town Hall (Manhattan, NY)
75 Years Ago, Latin Jazz Was Born. Its Offspring Are Going Strong.
A concert at Town Hall this week that will be led by Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra celebrates the legacies of Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Chico O’Farrill.