The Jazz Composer's Orchestra was an American jazz group, founded by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler in 1965, to perform orchestral avant-garde jazz .
3-730: Its origins lay in the Jazz Composers Guild , an organization founded by Bill Dixon which grew out of the series of 1964 concerts in New York, known as the " October Revolution in Jazz " and subsequent regular performance settings. A big band, formed by Bley and Mantler, became known as the Jazz Composers Guild Orchestra , which made its first record in April 1965. After the demise of the Guild,
6-558: The big band continued as the Jazz Composer's Orchestra. A non-profit organisation was established in 1966, the Jazz Composers Orchestra Association Inc. (JCOA). The Orchestra's first release was Communication in 1965. Their 1968 double-album The Jazz Composer's Orchestra featured soloists Cecil Taylor , Don Cherry , Roswell Rudd , Pharoah Sanders , Larry Coryell , and Gato Barbieri . JCOA Records
9-492: Was founded for releases from the Orchestra and its members. The albums included commissioned works by Roswell Rudd , Clifford Thornton , Don Cherry , Leroy Jenkins and Grachan Moncur III . The group's last performance was in 1975. The activities of the group led to the creation of a record distribution company known as New Music Distribution Service (NMDS). Bill Dixon Too Many Requests If you report this error to
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