Michael Mantler

Michael Mantler (born Aug. 10, 1943) is an Austrian trumpeter, composer, and arranger who has been active on the international avant-garde jazz/classical scene since the mid-1960s. Between 1973 and 1988, he released 10 albums on EMI-subsidiary Watt, a label he co-ran with then-wife Carla Bley.

Discography:

• No Answer (1973)
  
• 13 & 3/4 (1975 • Michael Mantler & Carla Bley)
  
• The Hapless Child and Other Inscrutable Stories (1976)
  
• Silence (1977)
  
• Movies (1978)
  
• More Movies (1980)
  
• Something There (1982)
  
• Alien (1985)
  
• Live (live, 1987)
  
• Many Have No Speech (1988)
  
• Folly Seeing All This (1993)
  
• Cerco un paese innocente (1995)
  
• School of Understanding (Sort of an Opera) (1997)
  
• Songs and One Symphony (2000)
  
• Hide and Seek (2001)
  
• Concertos (2008)
  
• For Two (2011 • Michael Mantler, Bjarne Roupé & Per Salo)
  
• The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Update (live, 2014)
  
• Comment c’est (2017)