Looking for America | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 2003 | |||
Recorded | October 7–8, 2002 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Watt/ECM | |||
Producer | Steve Swallow | |||
Carla Bley chronology | ||||
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Looking for America is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley recorded in 2002 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 2003. [1] [2]
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Looking for America is a fun, innovative, and indefatigable album by one of the true geniuses in modern jazz". [3] The JazzTimes review by Harvey Siders said "Inevitably, sardonic wit pervades her search on Looking for America as fragments of " The Star-Spangled Banner" materialize-dreamlike, impressionistically and, above all, whimsically-throughout the CD". [4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it 3⅓ stars stating "As an exploration of Americana, this is a fine and fun album". [5]
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
Penguin Guide to Jazz | [5] |
All compositions by Carla Bley except where noted.