WATT Records

{{short description|American record label}}

{{Infobox record label

| name = WATT Records

| image =

| founded = {{start date|1973}}

| founder = Carla Bley and Michael Mantler

| distributor = New Music Distribution Service, ECM Records

| genre = Jazz, Avant-garde jazz, Experimental jazz

| country = U.S.

| location = New York, NY

| website =

}}

WATT Records was a record label, recording studio, and music publisher founded by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler in May 1973.{{cite news |title=Carla Bley Obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/19/carla-bley-obituary |publisher=The Guardian |date=19 October 2023}} WATT was distributed by ECM Records. Bley and Mantler also set up New Music Distribution Service to promote WATT and new music.{{cite news |last1=Iverson |first1=Ethan |title=A Lifetime of Carla Bley |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-lifetime-of-carla-bley |publisher=The New Yorker |date=13 May 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/on-her-own-carla-bley/6/|title=On Her Own: Carla Bley; 6. The New Music Distribution Service|date=July 1, 2003|accessdate=May 28, 2014}}

Discography

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valign="bottom" style="text-align:center; width:150px;"|Album

! style="vertical-align:bottom; text-align:center; width:150px;"|Artist

! style="vertical-align:bottom; text-align:center; width:150px;"|Year

! style="vertical-align:bottom; text-align:center; width:150px;"|Notes

VALIGN

| No Answer

Michael Mantler1973
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| Tropic Appetites

Carla Bley1974
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| 13 & ¾

Michael Mantler & Carla Bley1975
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| The Hapless Child

Carla Bley1976Texts by Edward Gorey
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| Silence

Michael Mantler1976Texts by Harold Pinter
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| Movies

Carla Bley1977
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| Dinner Music

The Carla Bley Band1977
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| European Tour 1977

Carla Bley1978
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| Musique Mecanique

Carla Bley1979
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| More Movies

Michael Mantler1980
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| Social Studies

Carla Bley1981
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| Something There

Michael Mantler1982
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| Live!

Carla Bley1982
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| I Hate to Sing

Carla Bley1984
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| Heavy Heart

Carla Bley1984
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| Alien

Michael Mantler1985
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| Night-Glo

Carla Bley1985
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| Sextet

Carla Bley1987
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| Live

Michael Mantler1987
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| Many Have No Speech

Michael Mantler1987
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| Duets

Carla Bley with Steve Swallow1988
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| Fleur Carnivore

Carla Bley1989
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| The Very Big Carla Bley Band

Carla Bley1991
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| Go Together

Carla Bley with Steve Swallow1992
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| Big Band Theory

Carla Bley1993
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| Songs with Legs

Carla Bley with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow1994
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| The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church

The Carla Bley Big Band1996
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| Fancy Chamber Music

Carla Bley1998
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| Are We There Yet?

Carla Bley with Steve Swallow1999
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| 4x4

Carla Bley2000
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| Looking for America (album)

Carla Bley2003
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| The Lost Chords

Carla Bley2004
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| The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu

Carla Bley2007
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| Appearing Nightly

Carla Bley2008
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| Carla's Christmas Carols

Carla Bley2009

Source:{{cite web |url=http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_WATT.htm |title=WATT Records discography |website=JazzLists |access-date=January 26, 2024}}

References

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