Michael Mantler
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Biography
Born in Vienna, Austria on August 10, 1943, Michael Mantler is a contemporary jazz and avant-garde jazz trumpeter and composer. He is known for co-founding The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Association and collaborating with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra in the United States. Michael Mantler studied trumpet and musicology at the Academy of Music before enrolling at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts in 1962. Relocating to New York two years later, he collaborated with pianist Cecil Taylor, who enlisted him in the Jazz Composers Guild. He formed the Jazz Realities quintet with Carla Bley, but after the group split in 1965, he co-founded The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Association (JCOA), a foundation intended to promote orchestral creation in jazz. Michael Mantler and Carla Bley, who married in 1965, continued their close collaboration and joined forces with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra (1970). Due to problems with independent distribution, formed the New Music Distribution Service to help get indie releases into stores. He and Carla Bley started their own label, Watt Records, and released the albums No Answer (1974), The Hapless Child (1976), Silence (1977), Movies (1978), More Movies (1980), Something There (1983), Alien (1985) and Many Have No Speech (1988). After divorcing Carla Bley in 1991, Michael Mantler relocated back to Europe and continued his journey through avant-garde and contemporary jazz. He collaborated with The Balanescu Quartet on Folly Seeing All This (1993) and continued to record with many different artists on subsequent albums including Songs and One Symphony (2000), Concertos (2008), Jazz Composerâs Orchestra Update (2014), and Comment Câest (2017).
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Albums
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- Update Eight
- Update One
- Update Eleven
- Update Nine
- Perché?
- The Hapless Child
- The Remembered Visit
- Prelude featuring Jack Bruce
- First Lesson featuring Jack Bruce
- Sempre Notte
- Tutto Ho Perduto
- Introduzione
- Els Segadors featuring Carla Bley
- The Hapless Child featuring Michael Mantler
- Slow Orchestra Piece No. 6 featuring Michael Mantler
- The Doubtful Guest featuring Michael Mantler
- For Instance featuring Michael Mantler
- Slow Orchestra Piece #3 (Prisonniers) featuring Michael Mantler
- Preview / No Answer featuring Michael Mantler
- Love Ends
- When I Run featuring Jack Bruce
- The Remembered Visit featuring Michael Mantler
- Folly Suite
- Slow Orchestra Piece #8 (A L'abattoir) featuring Michael Mantler
