Trumpeter Michael Mantler has been a fixture on the US music scene for so long that it's easy to forget the global nature of his career. Born in Vienna, Austria, he came to the US in the early 1960s ...

Vienna-born composer Michael Mantler came to prominence on the American free-jazz scene in the late 1960s, with challenging music for the improv piano virtuoso Cecil Taylor. Since his return to Europe ...

Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra Michael Mantler, Composer Michael Mantler, Trumpet Roland Kluttig, Conductor Berlin Neue Musik Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra Michael Mantler, Composer Berlin ...

01 Update One 4:47 02 Update Eight 6:00 03 Update Nine 5:45 04 Update Eleven 7:01 05 Update Five 5:03 06 Update Six 7:23 07 Update Ten 6:45 08 Update Twelve Pt. 1 6:50 09 Update Twelve Pt. 2 2:48 10 ...

When trumpeter/composer Michael Mantler recorded the original The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra in 1968, participants like pianist Cecil Taylor and saxophonist Pharoah Sanders had fire in their belly and ...

Despite his substantial body of work, Austrian composer and trumpeter Michael Mantler tends to get overshadowed. There's his former wife, Carla Bley, whose early career he did much to foster. He sets ...