Duets (Carla Bley & Steve Swallow album)

Duets
Duets
Studio album by Carla Bley & Steve Swallow
Released	November 7, 1988
Recorded	Summer 1988
Genre	Jazz
Length	54:52
Label	Watt/ECM
Producer	Carla Bley, Steve Swallow
Carla Bley chronology
Steve Swallow chronology

ReleasedNovember 7, 1988

RecordedSummer 1988

GenreJazz

Length54:52

Duets is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley with bassist Steve Swallow recorded and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1988.^[1]^[2]

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Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[4]

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)
Related articles	Discography

v t e Steve Swallow
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Hotel Hello (with Gary Burton, 1974) Home (1979) Night-Glo (1985) Carla (1986-1987) Duets (with Carla Bley, 1988) The Life of a Trio: Saturday (with Paul Bley and Jimmy Giuffre, 1989) The Life of a Trio: Sunday (Paul Bley and Jimmy Giuffre, 1989) Swallow (1991) Go Together (with Carla Bley, 1992) Real Book (1993) Parlance (1995) Deconstructed (1996) Carla's Christmas Carols (with Carla Bley, 2008) The New Standard (with Jamie Saft and Bobby Previte, 2014) Loneliness Road (with Jamie Saft, 2017)
Live albums	Songs with Legs (with Carla Bley and Andy Sheppard, 1994) Are We There Yet? (with Carla Bley, 1998) Always Pack Your Uniform on Top (1999) Damaged in Transit (with Chis Potter and Adam Nussbaum, 2001)
Related articles	New York Art Quartet

Duets (Carla Bley & Steve Swallow album)

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