7 May 2010

Carla Bley Big Band "Escalator Over The Hill" - Live in Perugia '98


















In 1997, a live version of "Escalator Over The Hill", re-orchestrated
by Jeff Friedman, was performed for the first time in Cologne,
Germany, then, in July 1998, "the Escalator" toured Europe :
this recording was made at the "Umbria Jazz Festival".
In comparison with the original recording, here are missing track 1
"Hotel Overture" and track 19 "Little Pony Soldier".

Rec. live at "Teatro Turreno", Perugia, Italy, on July 13, 1998
(radio broadcast)

Carla Bley,conductor
Paul Haines,narrator
Phil Minton/Lindsey Richardson/Syd Straw/David Moss/Linda Sharrock, vocals
Baikida Carroll/Guy Barker,trumpets
Gary Valente/Richard Edwards/Adrian Lane/Roger Williams,trombones
Wolfang Pusching,alto sax,flute,vocal
Andy Sheppard,tenor sax,vocal
Julian Arguelles,baritone sax,bass clarinet,vocal
Pamela Attariwala,violin
Karen Mantler,keyboards,vocal
Steve Lowther,keyboards
Brad Shepik,guitar
Steve Swallow,electric bass
Dennis Mackrel,drums
Ramesh Shotham,percussion

01. This Is Here... (04:25)
02. Like Animals (01:29)
03. Escalator Over The Hill (05:01)
04. Stay Awake (01:34)
05. Ginger And David/Song To Anything That Moves (04:33)
06. EOTH Theme/Businessmen (04:22)
07. Ginger And David Theme (0:47)
08. Why (02:30)
09. It's Not What You Do (0:21)
10. Detective Writer Daughter (03:35)
11. Doctor Why (01:22)
12. Slow Dance/Smalltown Agonist (06:54)
13. End Of Head (0:57)
14. Over Her Head (02:48)
15. Oh Say Can You Do ? (01:04)
16. Holiday In Risk (03:18)
17. Holiday In Risk Theme (0:52)
18. A.I.R. (All India Radio) (07:08)
19. Rawalpindi Blues (15:59)
20. End Of Rawalpindi (06:53)
21. End Of Animals/...And It's Again (12:00)

Total Time 1:28:01
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26 comments:

  1. longbranch7 May 2010 at 23:15:00 CEST

    This looks fantastic, thanks!

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  2. Wallofsound8 May 2010 at 21:43:00 CEST

    Carla Bley's always welcome. Thanks.

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  3. Kyle8 May 2010 at 23:44:00 CEST

    I've been looking for something from this tour for so long, absolutely thrilled to listen. Sort of in awe that there's no Little Pony Soldier... they skipped it? It demands an enormous male vocal range, but I'd say it's probably the most fantastic vocal piece in the whole work

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  4. Anonymous9 May 2010 at 10:55:00 CEST

    ... it's again ... and again ... !

    Thank you.

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  5. Anonymous16 July 2010 at 10:17:00 CEST

    Please, reupload flac files part 2,3,&4

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  6. Anonymous17 July 2010 at 10:52:00 CEST

    Thank you for the LIVE Miroslav Vitous. There was no link to post my comment, so I'm doing it here. By the way, I still treasure the original box with ESCALATOR.

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  7. riccardo18 July 2010 at 17:24:00 CEST

    mp3 (198 MB) :
    http://rapidshare.com/files/384512864/CBBB_Perugia_98_mp3.part1.rar

    http://rapidshare.com/files/384523075/CBBB_Perugia_98_mp3.part2.rar

    flac (338 MB) NEW LINKS :
    http://rapidshare.com/files/407596077/EOTH_Perugia_98_flac.part1.rar

    http://rapidshare.com/files/407596078/EOTH_Perugia_98_flac.part2.rar

    http://rapidshare.com/files/407607922/EOTH_Perugia_98_flac.part3.rar

    http://rapidshare.com/files/407607926/EOTH_Perugia_98_flac.part4.rar

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  8. Anonymous12 July 2012 at 07:38:00 CEST

    still sounds wonderful, the words are hilarious.interesting without Jack and john and linda and so on. thanks heaps.

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  9. Bhowani18 October 2013 at 08:19:00 CEST

    links still work ! thanks a lot, Riccardo !

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  10. volumeselector18 August 2019 at 22:02:00 CEST

    Priority re up! I just re up 50 Riccardo's and I'm calling in a favor on this one.

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  11. Vincenz24 January 2020 at 11:20:00 CET

    OH PLEASE COULD YOU RE-UP THIS GEM?

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  12. Dr. Fu Man Chu13 February 2020 at 07:23:00 CET

    I also like to beg for a re-up!

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  13. francisco santos16 June 2020 at 19:50:00 CEST

    REPOST, PLEASE!...
    THX!...

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  14. JRAC11 November 2021 at 15:37:00 CET

    I would love to hear this.
    Can you reupload this,please?

    Sincerely

    JRAC

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  15. Dr. Fu Man Chu2 March 2023 at 00:16:00 CET

    In case it has been forgotten: please re-up! Or is it not possible?

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  16. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth2 March 2023 at 09:41:00 CET

    I do not have this recording. So the only chance for a reup is someone who actually downloaded it back then, reads this and is willing/able to do a reup.

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  17. Dr. Fu Man Chu2 March 2023 at 13:55:00 CET

    I see. Anyway, thanks for your response.

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  18. volumeselector25 May 2023 at 23:40:00 CEST

    New link for the highly sought after 'Carla Bley Big Band "Escalator Over The Hill" - Live in Perugia '98' FLAC version courtesy Carville. Enjoy this long lost treasure. :)

    https://mega.nz/file/r9gQQRwA#4BvB4TQIlbxR3I00mXPZZcM30_w6RFHohLdCmZ45RDk

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  19. DRONSZ26 May 2023 at 03:18:00 CEST

    Thanks!

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  20. JColtrane26 May 2023 at 18:45:00 CEST

    Thank you very much

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  21. Dr. Fu Man Chu26 May 2023 at 23:35:00 CEST

    aaah, eventually .................. great. Thank you very much !

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  22. rev.b28 May 2023 at 22:52:00 CEST

    Well worth the wait, many thanks.

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  23. dolphyfan21 June 2023 at 23:44:00 CEST

    Folder empty?? I've tried to DL several times and different ways but get message that the filename is incompatible with windows. My suspicion is the quotation marks but I'm not really sure what I'm talking about. Any chance of a windows-friendly reload of the Escalator/Perugia files? Thank you :)

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  24. Mark29 August 2023 at 17:11:00 CEST

    Very many thanks for this one. The original album was the favourite of a now departed friend of mine. RIP Mike W.

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  25. Brewing Luminous15 September 2023 at 17:53:00 CEST

    Thank you

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  26. propylaen200125 October 2023 at 13:40:00 CEST

    Thanks so much...must have overlooked this one so far.

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