Escalator Over the Hill

Album by Carla Bley & Paul Haines

Escalator Over the Hill is a double album by American composer and bandleader Carla Bley, released in 1971. It blends jazz, rock and avant-garde textures across extended forms and was created during a period when Bley focused on large-scale composition that expanded her work beyond small-group settings.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Hotel Overture
    13:11
  2. 2.
    This is Here
    6:02
  3. 3.
    Like Animals
    1:21
  4. 4.
    Escalator Over the Hill
    4:57
  5. 5.
    Stay Awake
    1:31
  6. 6.
    Ginger and David
    1:39
  7. 7.
    Song to Anything That Moves
    2:22
  8. 8.
    EOTH Theme
    0:35
  9. 9.
    Businessmen
    5:38
  10. 10.
    Ginger and David Theme
    0:57
  11. 11.
    Why
    2:19
  12. 12.
    It’s Not What You Do
    0:17
  13. 13.
    Detective Writer Daughter
    3:16
  14. 14.
    Doctor Why
    1:28
  15. 15.
    Slow Dance
    1:50
  16. 16.
    Smalltown Agonist
    5:24

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    End of Head
    0:38
  2. 3.
    Over Her Head
    2:38
  3. 4.
    Little Pony Soldier
    4:36
  4. 5.
    Oh Say Can You Do?
    1:11
  5. 6.
    Holiday in Risk
    3:10
  6. 7.
    Holiday in Risk Theme
    0:52
  7. 8.
    A.I.R. (All India Radio)
    3:58
  8. 9.
    Rawalpindi Blues
    12:44
  9. 10.
    End of Rawalpindi
    9:40
  10. 11.
    End of Animals
    1:26
  11. 12.
    …and It’s Again
    27:17

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