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Carla Bley Born Lovella May Borg May 11 1936 – October 17 2023 Was An American Jazz Composer Pianist Organist And Bandleader. An Important Figure In The Free Jazz Movement Of The 1960s She Is Perhaps Best Known For Her Jazz Opera Escalator Over The Hill Released As A Triple LP Set As Well As A Book Of Compositions That Have Been Performed By Many Other Artists Including Gary Burton Jimmy Giuffre George Russell Art Farmer And Her Ex-Husband Paul Bley. Bley Was Born In Oakland California. Her Father A Piano Teacher And Church Choirmaster Encouraged Her To Sing And To Learn To Play The Piano. After Giving Up The Church To Immerse Herself In Roller Skating At The Age Of Fourteen 1 She Moved To New York At Seventeen And Became A Cigarette Girl At Birdland Where She Met Jazz Pianist Bley Whom She Married In 1957 2 . He Encouraged Her To Start Composing. The Two Later Divorced. Her Compositions Were Soon Beginning To Appear On Record — For Example "Bent Eagle" On George Russell's Stratusphunk In 1960 And Then Ictus On Jimmy Giuffre's Thesis And Paul Bley's Barrage. In 1964 She Was Involved In Organising The Jazz Composers Guild Which Brought Together The Most Innovative Musicians In New York At The Time. She Then Had A Personal And Professional Relationship With Michael Mantler With Whom She Had A Daughter Karen Now Also A Musician In Her Own Right. With Mantler She Co-Led The Jazz Composers' Orchestra And Started The JCOA Record Label Which Issued A Number Of Historic Recordings By Clifford Thornton Don Cherry And Roswell Rudd As Well As Her Own Escalator Over The Hill And Mantler's Jazz Composers' Orchestra LPs. Bley And Mantler Followed With WATT Records Which Has Issued Their Recordings Exclusively Since The Early 1970s. Bley And Mantler Were Pioneers In The Development Of Independent Artist-Owned Record Labels And Also Started The Now Defunct New Music Distribution Service Which Specialized In Small Independent Labels That Issued Recordings Of Creative Improvised Music. Bley Has Collaborated With A Number Of Other Artists Including Jack Bruce Robert Wyatt And Pink Floyd Drummer Nick Mason Whose 1981 Solo Album Fictitious Sports Was A Carla Bley Album In All But Name. She Arranged And Composed Music For Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra And Wrote A Genuine Tong Funeral For Gary Burton. Her Arrangement Of The Music For Federico Fellini's 8½ Appeared On Hal Willner's Nino Rota Tribute Record Amarcord Nino Rota. She Has Also Contributed To Other Hal Willner Projects Including The Song "Misterioso" For The Tribute To Thelonious Monk Entitled "That's The Way I Feel Now" Which Included Johnny Griffin As Guest Musician On Tenor Saxophone And The Willner-Directed Tribute To Kurt Weill Entitled "Lost In The Stars" Where She And Her Band Contributed An Arrangement Of The Title Track With Phil Woods As Guest Musician On Alto Saxophone. Carla Bley Has Continued To Record Frequently With Her Own Big Band And A Number Of Smaller Ensembles. Her Partner The Bassist Steve Swallow Has Been Her Closest And Most Consistent Musical Associate In Recent Years. In 1997 A Live Version Of Escalator Over The Hill Was Performed For The First Time In Cologne Germany In 1998 "Escalator" Toured Europe And Another Live Performance Took Place In May 2006 In Essen Germany. In 2005 She Arranged The Music For And Performed On Charlie Haden's Latest Liberation Music Orchestra Tour And Recording Not In Our Name. Discography
1971 Escalator Over The Hill Carla Bley And Paul Haines 1974 Tropic Appetites Carla Bley 1975 Live In 75' The Jack Bruce Band 1977 Dinner Music Carla Bley 1978 European Tour 1977 Carla Bley Band 1979 Musique Mecanique Carla Bley Band 1981 Fictitious Sports Nick Mason Recorded 1979 1981 Social Studies Carla Bley Band 1982 Live! Carla Bley Band 1983 The Ballad Of The Fallen Charlie Haden And Carla Bley 1984 I Hate To Sing Carla Bley Band 1984 Heavy Heart Carla Bley 1985 Night-Glo Carla Bley 1987 Sextet Carla Bley 1988 Duets Carla Bley And Steve Swallow 1989 Fleur Carnivore Carla Bley 1991 The Very Big Carla Bley Band Carla Bley Band 1992 Go Together Carla Bley And Steve Swallow 1993 Big Band Theory Carla Bley 1994 Songs With Legs Carla Bley 1996 ...Goes To Church Carla Bley Big Band 1998 Fancy Chamber Music Carla Bley 2000 4x4 Carla Bley 2003 Looking For America Carla Bley Big Band 2004 The Lost Chords Carla Bley 2005 Not In Our Name With Charlie Haden/ Liberation Music Orchestra Resource
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