European Tour 1977 is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley. Recorded in 1977 in Munich, Germany, it was released on the Watt/ECM label in 1978.^[1]^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Christgau's Record Guide	A−^[4]
DownBeat	^[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[6]

Scott Yanow of AllMusic stated: "One of Carla Bley's most rewarding recordings ... unusual, somewhat innovative and always fun music."^[3] The Milwaukee Journal considered it "among the funniest jazz albums ever made."^[7] In 1996, Billboard noted that Bley has "been steadily praised for integrating whimsy into her scores... On European Tour 1977, there was a daffy nature to the sophisticated orchestration."^[8]

Track listing

All compositions by Carla Bley

"Rose and Sad Song" - 11:11
"Wrong Key Donkey" - 7:52
"Drinking Music" - 4:26
"Spangled Banner Minor and Other Patriotic Songs" (Including Flags, And Now The Queen, King Korn And The New National Anthem) - 19:17

Personnel

Carla Bley – organ, tenor saxophone
Michael Mantler – trumpet
Elton Dean – alto saxophone
Gary Windo – tenor saxophone
John Clark – french horn, guitar
Roswell Rudd – trombone
Bob Stewart – tuba
Terry Adams – piano
Hugh Hopper – bass guitar, bass drum
Andrew Cyrille – drums

References

↑ Carla Bley discography accessed July 23, 2010
↑ ECM/WATT discography Archived 2016-09-16 at the Wayback Machine accessed August 25, 2016
1 2 Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed July 23, 2010
↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: B". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
↑ Douglas, Michael (October 16, 1979). "Record Reviews". DownBeat. Vol. 46, no. 16. pp. 48–49.
↑ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
↑ "Carla Bley and Michael Mantler". The Milwaukee Journal. June 3, 1990. p. E7.
↑ Macnie, Jim (June 29, 1996). "Carla Bley's career has Legs". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 26. p. 1.

v t e Carla Bley
As leader	Tropic Appetites (1974) Dinner Music (1977) European Tour 1977 (1978) Musique Mecanique (1979) Social Studies (1981) Live! (1982) I Hate to Sing (1984) Heavy Heart (1984) Sextet (1987) Fleur Carnivore (1989) The Very Big Carla Bley Band (1991) Big Band Theory (1993) Songs with Legs (1994) The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church (1996) Fancy Chamber Music (1998) 4 x 4 (2000) Looking for America (2003) The Lost Chords (2004) The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu (2007) Appearing Nightly (2008) Carla's Christmas Carols (2009) Trios (2013) Andando el Tiempo (2016) Life Goes On (2020)
With Gary Burton	A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967)
With Jazz Composer's Orchestra	The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968) Escalator over the Hill (1968–71) Relativity Suite (1973)
With Michael Mantler	Jazz Realities (1966)
With Charlie Haden	Liberation Music Orchestra (1969) The Ballad of the Fallen (1983) Dream Keeper (1990) Not in Our Name (2005)
With Nick Mason	Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1979)
With Steve Swallow	Night-Glo (1985) Duets (1988) Go Together (1992) Are We There Yet? (1999)
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