A successful continuation of a 20th century's masterpiece:
"A prolific, extravagant work," Escalator Over the Hill "(EOTH) was released in 1972 as a triple LP of more than two hours of music, which combines musical theater, declaimed poetry, country, jazz, pop- rock, world music, electronic manipulations ... This eclecticism in Carla Bley's sources of inspiration, to which could be added the brass fanfares, the elaborate orchestral colors, the ecstatic solos she experienced in the free world the unheard sounds of electro-acoustics make EOTH an unclassifiable work, just like its author ... Here the attention of the arrangers, then of the collective in front of the proposed partitions, was particularly focused on the creation of a personal's orchestra sound, what they perfectly succeeded: their appropriation proves always to be rich, multiple, powerful, in judicious musical choices and above all, the necessary enthusiasm, and the no less essential generosity, of the musicians offer us an successfull continuation of this masterpiece of the twentieth century. "Over the Hills" thus gives to hear the original work as much as it proposes a Work Other! » - Ludovic FLORIN

CHOC ! JAZZ MAGAZINE
ELU - ELECTED  CITIZEN JAZZ

Les musiciens réunis à l'intiative de Bruno Tocanne et Bernard Santacruz  - The musicians :
Jean Aussanaire (saxs), Alain Blesing (guit),  Rémi Gaudillat (tpt), Antoine Läng (vocal), Perrine Mansuy (piano), Fred Roudet (tpt), Bernard Santacruz (cb), Olivier Thémines (clar), Bruno Tocanne (dms)