Tropic Appetites

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{{Infobox album

| name = Tropic Appetites

| type = studio

| artist = Carla Bley

| cover = Tropic Appetites.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1974

| recorded = 1973–74

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Post-bop, jazz

| length =

| label = WATT Records/ECM Watt 1

| producer = Michael Mantler

| prev_title = Escalator over the Hill

| prev_year = 1971

| next_title = Dinner Music

| next_year = 1976

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}

|rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| author-link =

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 26

}}

|rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2 = Brian Morton|author2-link = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|edition = 9th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0 | page = 136}}

| rev8 = Tom Hull

| rev8Score = 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|accessdate=9 July 2020}}

}}

Tropic Appetites is a jazz album by Carla Bley released in 1974, following her debut Escalator over the Hill. The lyrics are contributed by Bley's friend Paul Haines, based on his journeys to Southeast Asia in the preceding years. Unlike on the orchestral Escalator, the band is an octet, with Julie Tippetts as lead vocalist.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r135559}}[http://www.trovar.com/ECM/WATT.php ECM/WATT discography] accessed August 25, 2016