Dinner Music is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley, recorded in 1976 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1977.[1][2]

Dinner Music
Studio album by
Released1977
RecordedJuly–September 1976
StudioGrog Kill Studio, Willow, New York
GenreJazz
Length48:09
LabelWatt/ECM
ProducerCarla Bley and George James
Carla Bley chronology
Tropic Appetites
(1974)
Dinner Music
(1977)
European Tour 1977
(1977)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [3]
Christgau's Record GuideB+[4]
Tom HullB+ (  )[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz    [6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide     [7]

The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos stated: "First excursion on a funky trail, executed immaculately. Near essential".[3]

Track listing edit

All compositions by Carla Bley except where noted.

  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

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ Carla Bley discography accessed July 23, 2010
  2. ^ ECM/WATT discography Archived 2016-09-16 at the Wayback Machine accessed August 25, 2016
  3. ^ a b Nastos, M. G. AllMusic Review accessed July 23, 2010
  4. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: B". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  5. ^ Hull, Tom (28 February 2018). "Streamnotes". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 26. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.