Fancy Chamber Music

{{Infobox album

| name = Fancy Chamber Music

| type = Album

| artist = Carla Bley

| cover = Fancy Chamber Music.jpg

| alt =

| released = June 22, 1998

| recorded = December 5–6, 1997

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 53:04

| label = Watt/ECM

| producer = Carla Bley & Steve Swallow

| chronology = Carla Bley

| prev_title = The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church

| prev_year = 1996

| next_title = Are We There Yet?

| next_year = 1998

}}

Fancy Chamber Music is an album by the American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley, recorded in England in 1997 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1998.[http://sudo.3.pro.tok2.com/Quest/cards/C/CarlaBley/index.html Carla Bley discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020162514/http://sudo.3.pro.tok2.com/Quest/cards/C/CarlaBley/index.html |date=2009-10-20 }} accessed August 12, 2010[http://www.trovar.com/ECM/WATT.php ECM/WATT discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916121219/http://trovar.com/ECM/WATT.php |date=2016-09-16 }} accessed August 25, 2016

Reception

The AllMusic review by Tim Sheridan stated: "Always the iconoclast, here pianist Bley applies her keen musical skill on baroque and chamber styles with tongue firmly in cheek and a fine string section to set the mood".Sheridan, T. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r385211|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic Review] accessed August 12, 2010 The Penguin Guide to Jazz stated: "Very little to separate the fancy from the funky. Vintage Bley".{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 9th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0|pages = 131}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}

| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz

| rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}}

| rev8 = Tom Hull

| rev8Score = B{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=28 February 2018|url=http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/blog/archives/2608-Streamnotes-February-2018.html|title=Streamnotes|website=Tom Hull – on the Web|accessdate=9 July 2020}}

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Track listing

All compositions by Carla Bley.

"Wolfgang Tango" - 14:29
"Romantic Notion No. 4" - 2:26
"End of Vienna" - 9:00
"Tigers in Training" - 19:02
"Romantic Notion No. 6" - 1:05
"Jon Benet" - 7:17

Recorded at SnakeRanch Studio, London, England on December 5 & 6, 1997.

Personnel

Carla Bley - piano
Steve Morris - violin
Andrew Byrt - viola
Emma Black - cello
Steve Swallow - bass
Alison Hayhurst - flute
Sara Lee - clarinet, glockenspiel
Chris Wells - percussion

References

Category:ECM Records albums

Category:Carla Bley albums

Category:1998 albums