‘Since 1962 I was the honoured recipient of many wonderful letters, poems and personally composed audio tapes by Paul Haines. Buy Carla Bley, Paul Haines - Escalator Over The Hill - JCOA Records - 3xLP, Album + Box - 3LP-EOTH, includes Hotel Overture. Most of it was composed in advance, but there was one tune Don Cherry was playing onthey just started playing and they played for 15 minutes and then they stopped. Escalator Over The Hill is mostly known as a jazz opera, but was released as a chronotransduction with. 'Actively associated with some of the most progressive musicians in jazz for almost thirty years, Haines’s writing moves in quirky, unpredictable rhythms, with a love for sound, surprise and tart, understated humor.’ – Fernando Gonzales, Boston Globe Carla Bley/Paul Haines Escalator Over the Hill (JCOA, 1971) Advertisement.

Including uncollected fictions, epigrammatic poems and lyrics and writings on music composed between 19, this book finally places a major talent under the spotlight. 3LP-EOTH Carla Bley / Paul Haines Escalator Over The Hill 3 LP box set Box condition Excellent Cart. Carla Bley is an American jazz musician who has had success as a solo artist and with ensembles including her Big Band for many decades. Secret Carnival Workers is the first volume to bring together Haines’ poems, short fiction and music journalism – influenced by jazz, Dada and the Surrealists – in all its complex and creative breadth. Since Haines's death in 2003, his daughter, singer-songwriter Emily Haines, has endeavoured to collect his writings, many of which were known only to his circle of musician friends.

Alternately sly, humorous, cryptic and outrageous, much of Haines’ writing has gone unpublished for years. Listen to Escalator Over The Hill - A Chronotransduction By Carla Bley And Paul Haines by Carla Bley & The Jazz Composers Orchestra on Apple Music. Admired as much for his insightful jazz criticism as for his liner notes and lyrics, Paul Haines collaborated throughout his life with some of the world’s most adventurous artists, including Evan Parker, Carla Bley, Derek Bailey, Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, Alex Chilton, Robert Wyatt, Jack Bruce and Mary Margaret O’Hara.

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