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Jazz
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| Descriptive "tags": |
free jazz • avantgarde • ecm • avant-garde • jazz rock • free - inspiring • jazz • progressive rock • composer • fusion • contemporary • contemporary jazz • avant-prog
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| Decades Active: |
1960s
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1970s
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1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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Biography
10 August 1943, Vienna, Austria. Mantler took up trumpet at the age of 12, and from 14 worked in dance bands, playing stock arrangements with little opportunity for creative jazz. He found musical freedom after moving to the USA in 1962. After what he regarded as educationally barren years at the Berklee College Of Music in Boston, he moved to New York in 1964 and immediately became involved with musicians such as Paul Bley, Carla Bley (whom he would later marry) and Cecil Taylor. From 1965-66, he toured Europe with Carla Bley and Steve Lacy in the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra. In later decades, Mantler toured with Carla Bley’s Sextet and Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, and recorded several albums of his own pieces in addition to interpretations of writings by Samuel Beckett (No Answer), Edward Gorey (The Hapless Child And Other Inscrutable Stories), Harold Pinter (Silence) and Paul Auster (Hide And Seek). Although a...
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