WATT Records explained

WATT Records was a record label, recording studio, and music publisher founded by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler in May 1973.^[1] WATT was distributed by ECM Records. Bley and Mantler also set up New Music Distribution Service to promote WATT and new music.^{[2] [3]}

Discography

Album	Artist	Year	Notes
No Answer	Carla Bley with Jack Bruce and Don Cherry	1973
Tropic Appetites	Carla Bley	1974
13 & ¾	Carla Bley	1975
The Hapless Child	Carla Bley	1976	Texts by Edward Gorey
Silence	Carla Bley	1976	Texts by Harold Pinter
Movies	Carla Bley	1977
Dinner Music	Carla Bley	1977
European Tour 1977	Carla Bley	1978
Musique Mecanique	Carla Bley	1979
More Movies	Carla Bley	1980
Social Studies	Carla Bley	1981
Something There	Carla Bley	1982
Live!	Carla Bley	1982
I Hate to Sing	Carla Bley	1984
Heavy Heart	Carla Bley	1984
Night-Glo	Carla Bley	1985
Sextet	Carla Bley	1987
Duets	Carla Bley with Steve Swallow	1988
Fleur Carnivore	Carla Bley	1989
The Very Big Carla Bley Band	Carla Bley	1977
Go Together	Carla Bley with Steve Swallow	1992
Big Band Theory	Carla Bley	1993
Songs with Legs	Carla Bley with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow	1994
The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church	Carla Bley	1996
Fancy Chamber Music	Carla Bley	1998
Are We There Yet?	Carla Bley with Steve Swallow	1999
4x4	Carla Bley	2000
Looking for America (album)	Carla Bley	2003
The Lost Chords	Carla Bley	2004
The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu	Carla Bley	2007
Appearing Nightly	Carla Bley	2008
Carla's Christmas Carols	Carla Bley	2009

Source:^[4]

External links

• Discogs - WATT Records

Notes and References

1. News: Carla Bley Obituary . The Guardian . 19 October 2023.
2. News: Iverson . Ethan . A Lifetime of Carla Bley . The New Yorker . 13 May 2018.
3. Web site: On Her Own: Carla Bley; 6. The New Music Distribution Service. July 1, 2003. May 28, 2014.
4. Web site: WATT Records discography . JazzLists . January 26, 2024.