• The Jazz Composer's Orchestra was an American jazz group, founded by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler in 1965, to perform orchestral avant-garde jazz. Its...
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  • The Jazz Composer's Orchestra is a 1968 album by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra recorded over a period of six months with Michael Mantler as composer, leader...
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  • Communication is the debut album by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra featuring compositions by Michael Mantler and Carla Bley performed by Paul Bley, Steve...
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    1969 [1972]) With Steve Lacy Evidence (New Jazz, 1962) With Michael Mantler The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (ECM, 1968) No Answer (WATT/ECM 1973) With Sunny...
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  • Carla Bley discography (category Jazz discographies)
    (RCA) With the Jazz Composer's Orchestra 1966: Communication (Fontana) Jazz Composer's Orchestra 1968: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA) (led by Michael...
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    Pharoah Sanders (category African-American jazz musicians)
    Chappaqua Suite (Columbia) 1968 – Michael Mantler – Jazz Composer's Orchestra – The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA) 1968 – Gary Bartz – Another Earth (Milestone)...
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  • album) or the title song, 2009 Communication (Jazz Composer's Orchestra album), 1965 The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (album), sometimes referred to as Communications...
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  • Cecil Taylor discography (category Jazz discographies)
    Evans Orchestra, Into the Hot (Impulse!, 1962) – rec. 1961. features tracks also released on Mixed. Jazz Composer's Orchestra, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra...
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    Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO), established as the London Schools' Jazz Orchestra in 1965, is a British jazz orchestra. The National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO)...
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  • Escalator over the Hill (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra albums)
    production and coordination by Michael Mantler", performed by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra. Escalator over the Hill is more than an hour and a half long...
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    Maria Lynn Schneider (born November 27, 1960) is an American composer and jazz orchestra leader who has won multiple Grammy Awards. Born in Windom, Minnesota...
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  • also worked on notable jazz albums, including the avant-garde jazz album Communications, performed by Jazz Composer's Orchestra and 1974's Musique du Bois...
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  • Relativity Suite (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra albums)
    Relativity Suite is a free-jazz LP by Don Cherry on Jazz Composer's Orchestra Records which was released in 1973. Having appeared on the first two JCOA...
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  • Village Voice, regarding the album as merely "competent Jazz Composer’s Orchestra style ensemble jazz, full of nice dissonances and not much more". LP side...
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  • The Gardens of Harlem (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra albums)
    JCOA Records. On the album, Thornton is joined by members of the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, supplemented by seven musicians playing African percussion instruments...
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    Michael Mantler (category American jazz composers)
    up, he established the Jazz Composer's Orchestra Association (JCOA). Its purpose was to provide an outlet for new orchestral jazz compositions. For its...
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    groups handled jazz admirably as part of a larger repertoire. Critic Scott Yanow declares that Whiteman's orchestra "did play very good jazz...His superior...
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  • Wheeler, Windmill Tilter (Fontana, 1969) Barry Guy/The London Jazz Composers' Orchestra, Ode (Incus, 1972) Nguyen Le, NDR Big Band, Celebrating the Dark...
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  • July 27, 2009) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and theorist. He is considered one of the first jazz musicians to contribute to general...
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  • Rondo/Schaffhausen Concert is a live album by Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra with pianist Irène Schweizer. It was recorded on May 21, 2008...
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    Brussels Jazz Orchestra is a Belgian jazz orchestra with big band line up founded in 1993 by saxophonist and composer Frank Vaganée, Serge Plume, Marc...
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  • For Players Only (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra albums)
    that year. On the album, Jenkins is joined by members of the Jazz Composer's Orchestra. The album presents a single, extended composition by Jenkins...
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  • The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra was a jazz big band formed by trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis in New York in 1965. The band performed...
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  • Zurich Concerts is a double live album by Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra featuring recordings of two large-scale compositions, one by Guy...
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    Gato Barbieri (category Latin jazz saxophonists)
    Jazz Composer's Orchestra The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968) With Alan Shorter Orgasm (Verve, 1968) With Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse...
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    formal composition received their grandest form in the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra. Originally formed to perform Guy's composition Ode in 1972 (released...
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    Julius Watkins (category Jazz musicians from Detroit)
    For Someone I Love (Riverside, 1963) With The Jazz Composer's Orchestra The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA 1968) With Quincy Jones The Birth of a Band...
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  • Ode is an album by the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra composed by bassist Barry Guy and conducted by his teacher, Buxton Orr. It was recorded as part...
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  • Echoes of Prayer (category Jazz Composer's Orchestra albums)
    an album by trombonist and composer Grachan Moncur III on which he is joined by members of the Jazz Composer's Orchestra and the Tanawa Dance Ensemble...
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