MICHAEL MANTLER
Avant-Garde Jazz / Third Stream / Progressive Big Band / Jazz Related Improv/Composition • Austria
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Born in Vienna in 1943, Michael Mantler went to the United States in 1962, and after early activities in the New York avant-garde as composer and trumpet player, he formed the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, and eventually WATT, a music production company. He toured and recorded extensively with Carla Bley as well as occasionally with his own live performance projects.
He has recorded many albums for WATT with varying instrumentations and soloists. Appearing infrequently live, he mostly concentrated on composing and recording. He has often worked with texts of contemporary authors (among them most prominently Samuel Beckett) featuring well-known singers from diverse backgrounds of jazz and popular music (including Jack Bruce and Robert Wyatt).
in 1991 he left the United States and returned to Europe. Continuing to cross the borders between jazz and contemporary classical music with his distinct instrumental and vocal compositions, he recorded new albums, now for ECM Records, including
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Jazz Related Improv/Composition
1974
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Avant-Garde Jazz
1977
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Avant-Garde Jazz
1978
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For Two
Third Stream
2011
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Avant-Garde Jazz
1987
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