Dinner Music

Dinner Music
Dinner Music
Studio album by Carla Bley
Released	1977
Recorded	July–September 1976
Studio	Grog Kill Studio, Willow, New York
Genre	Jazz
Length	48:09
Label	Watt/ECM
Producer	Carla Bley and George James
Carla Bley chronology

Released1977

RecordedJuly–September 1976

StudioGrog Kill Studio, Willow, New York

GenreJazz

Dinner Music is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley, recorded in 1976 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1977.^[1]^[2]

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Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+^[4]
Tom Hull	B+ ()^[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[7]

v t e Carla Bley
As leader	Tropic Appetites (1974) Dinner Music (1977) European Tour 1977 (1978) Musique Mecanique (1979) Social Studies (1981) Live! (1982) I Hate to Sing (1984) Heavy Heart (1984) Sextet (1987) Fleur Carnivore (1989) The Very Big Carla Bley Band (1991) Big Band Theory (1993) Songs with Legs (1994) The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church (1996) Fancy Chamber Music (1998) 4 x 4 (2000) Looking for America (2003) The Lost Chords (2004) The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu (2007) Appearing Nightly (2008) Carla's Christmas Carols (2009) Trios (2013) Andando el Tiempo (2016) Life Goes On (2020)
With Gary Burton	A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967)
With Jazz Composer's Orchestra	The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968) Escalator over the Hill (1968–71) Relativity Suite (1973)
With Michael Mantler	Jazz Realities (1966)
With Charlie Haden	Liberation Music Orchestra (1969) The Ballad of the Fallen (1983) Dream Keeper (1990) Not in Our Name (2005)
With Nick Mason	Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (1979)
With Steve Swallow	Night-Glo (1985) Duets (1988) Go Together (1992) Are We There Yet? (1999)
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