Go Together
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{{Infobox album
| name = Go Together
| type = Album
| artist = Carla Bley & Steve Swallow
| cover = Go Together.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1993
| recorded = Summer 1992
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 52:32
| label = Watt/ECM
| producer = Carla Bley & Steve Swallow
| chronology = Carla Bley
| prev_title = The Very Big Carla Bley Band
| prev_year = 1990
| next_title = Big Band Theory
| next_year = 1993
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = Steve Swallow
| type = Studio
| prev_title = Swallow
| prev_year = 1991
| title = Go Together
| year = 1992
| next_title = Real Book
| next_year = 1993
}}
}}
Go Together is an album of duets by the American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley and bassist Steve Swallow, recorded and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1993.[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 9, 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 It is the pair's second duet recording following Duets (1988).
Reception
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "A melodic but explorative player, Bley (whose use of space sometimes recalls Thelonious Monk) interacts closely with the electric bass of Steve Swallow on this excellent duet session".Yanow, S. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r169783|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic Review] accessed August 9, 2010 The Penguin Guide to Jazz called it "an intriguingly relaxed and unhurried survey of (mostly) older material".{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|orig-year = 1992|edition = 9th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0|pages = 130}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz
| rev2 = Tom Hull
| rev2Score = B+ ({{Rating-Christgau|hm1}}){{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|access-date=9 July 2020}}
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Track listing
All compositions by Carla Bley except where noted.
- "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" - 5:52
- "Mother of the Dead Man" - 5:54
- "Masquerade in 3 Parts: Carnation/Dark Glasses/Mustache" (Steve Swallow) - 13:08
- "Ad Infinitum" - 5:56
- "Copyright Royalties" - 6:31
- "Peau Douce" (Swallow) - 4:46
- "Doctor" - 4:21
- "Fleur Carnivore" - 6:21
:*Recorded at Grog Kill Studio, Willow, New York in the Summer of 1992.
Personnel
References
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