Michael Mantler (born August 10, 1943) is an Austrian avant-garde jazz trumpeter and composer of contemporary music.
Mantler was born in Vienna, Austria. In the early 1960s, he was a student at the Academy of Music and Vienna University, concentrating on trumpet and musicology. He continued his studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. In 1964, he moved to New York City and joined the Jazz Composers Guild with Roswell Rudd, Archie Shepp, and Cecil Taylor.
He founded the Jazz Realities quintet with Carla Bley and toured in Europe with Steve Lacy. After the Guild broke up, he established the Jazz Composer's Orchestra Association (JCOA). Its purpose was to provide an outlet for new orchestral jazz compositions. For its first record release he produced a double album of his music during 1968, entitled The Jazz Composer's Orchestra, with soloists Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Pharoah Sanders, Larry Coryell, and Gato Barbieri. Some of this music was also performed during the "Long Concerts" at the Electric Circus in New York in 1969.
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Links to Peel[]
Peel was fond of Michael Mantler's album, 'The Hapless Child (And Other Inscrutable Stories)', which featured the vocals of Robert Wyatt. He would play tracks from the album on his shows and never played any other material from Mantler on his programmes.
Shows Played[]
- 08 April 1976: The Sinking Spell (album - The Hapless Child (And Other Inscrutable Stories)) WATT Works / Virgin
- Where It's At: The Insect God (LP - The Hapless Child (And Other Inscrutable Stories)) WATT Works / Virgin
- 1978
- 25 July 1978: The Insect God (LP - Hapless Child (And Other Inscrutable Stories The Hapless Child (And Other Inscrutable Stories) WATT Works / Virgin
- 1989
- 15 February 1989: The Sinking Spell (album - The Hapless Child (And Other Inscrutable Stories)) WATT Works / Virgin