Go Together is an album of duets by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley

Carla Bley

Carla Bley, née Borg, is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other...

 and bassist Steve Swallow

Steve Swallow

Steve Swallow is a jazz double bass and bass guitarist and composer born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.One of the leading bassists in jazz, Swallow is noted for collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton and Carla Bley...

 recorded and released on the Watt/ECM

ECM (record label)

ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres...

 label in 1993. It is the pair's second duet recording following Duets

Duets (Carla Bley & Steve Swallow album)

Duets is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley with bassist Steve Swallow recorded and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1988.-Reception:...

(1988).

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow is an American jazz commentator, known for many contributions to the Allmusic website, for writing ten books on jazz and for reviewing jazz recordings for over 30 years.-Biography:...

 awarded the album 4 stars and stated "A melodic but explorative player, Bley (whose use of space sometimes recalls Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...

) interacts closely with the electric bass of Steve Swallow on this excellent duet session". The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded it 3 stars calling it "An intriguingly relaxed and unhurried survey of (mostly) older material".

Track listing

All compositions by Carla Bley except as indicated

1. "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" - 5:52
2. "Mother of the Dead Man" - 5:54
3. "Masquerade in 3 Parts: Carnation/Dark Glasses/Mustache" (Steve Swallow) - 13:08
4. "Ad Infinitum" - 5:56
5. "Copyright Royalties" - 6:31
6. "Peau Douce" (Swallow) - 4:46
7. "Doctor" - 4:21
8. "Fleur Carnivore" - 6:21
   • Recorded at Grog Kill Studio, Willow, New York in the Summer of 1992.