From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dinner Music
Dinner Music
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]
Penguin Guide to Jazz [3]
Dinner Music Track listing
1. "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" - 7:43
2. "Dreams So Real" - 5:36
3. "Ad Infinitum" - 5:54
4. "Dining Alone" (lyrics by Bley & John Hunt) - 4:36
5. "Song Sung Long" - 6:02
6. "Ida Lupino" - 7:57
7. "Funnybird Song" - 3:05
8. "A New Hymn" - 7:25
• Recorded at Grog Kill Studio, Willow, New York
in July-September 1976.
Studio album by Carla Bley
Personnel
• Carla Bley - organ, piano, tenor saxophone, vocals
Released 1977
• Michael Mantler - trumpet
Recorded July-September 1976 • Carlos Ward - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
• Roswell Rudd - trombone
Genre Jazz
• Bob Stewart - tuba
Length 48:09 • Richard Tee - piano, electric piano
• Cornell Dupree (tracks 1 & 7), Eric Gale, (tracks 2, 4 &
Label Watt/ECM
6) - guitar
Producer Carla Bley and George James • Gordon Edwards - bass guitar
Carla Bley chronology • Steve Gadd - drums
Tropic Appetites
(1973-4)
Dinner Music
(1976)
European Tour 1977
(1977)
References
[1] Carla Bley discography accessed July 23, 2010
Dinner Music is an album by American composer, band- [2] ^ Nastos, M. G. Allmusic Review accessed July 23,
leader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in 1976 and 2010
released on the Watt/ECM label in 1977.[1] [3] ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992] (in
English). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The
Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin.
Reception pp. 130. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the al-
bum 4½ stars and stated "First excursion on a funky trail,
executed immaculately. Near essential".[2] The Penguin
Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3 stars.[3]
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