Carla Bley piano & arrangement
Carla Bley piano & arrangement
An important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, she was 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, John Scofield, and her ex-husband Paul Bley.
Bayrischer Rundfunk : IN JEDEM TAKT EIN AUGENZWINKERN
von Roland Spiegel
GUARDIAN Carla Bley, imaginative jazz pianist and composer, dies aged 87
by Ben Beaumont-Thomas
NPR: Carla Bley, prolific and expansive jazz pianist, dies at 87
by Andrey Henkin
Jazz Pages Carla Bley RIP (11.5.1936 – 17.10.2023)
von Frank Schindelbeck
Life Goes On
Carla Bley, Andy SHEPPARD, Steve Swallow
Life Goes On 2020
Andando El Tiempo
Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Andy SHEPPARD
Andando El Tiempo 2015
Trios
Carla Bley, Andy SHEPPARD, Steve Swallow
Trios 2013
Tropic Appetites 1974
Dinner Music
1977
European Tour
1978
Social Studies
1981
Carla Bley Live!
1982
I Hate To Sing
1984
Heavy Heart
1984
Duets
with Steve Swallow
1988
- 1989: Fleur Carnivore
- 1992: Go Together
with Steve Swallow)
Songs with Legs
with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow
1994
- 1999: Are We There Yet? with Steve Swallow
4 x 4
2000
2009: Carla’s Christmas Carols (WATT)
2003: Looking for America (WATT)
2004: The Lost Chords (WATT)
2007: The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu (WATT)
2008: Appearing Nightly (WATT)
The Very Big Carla Bley Band
1991
Big Band Theory
1993
The Carla Bley Big Band Goes To Church
1995
Andy SHEPPARD, Giampaolo Casati, Jim Pugh, Karen Mantler, Lawrence Feldman, Lew Soloff, Robert Routch, Steve Swallow, Wolfgang Puschnig, Gary Valente, Gary Smulyan, Billy Drummond, Byron Stripling, Carla Bley, Craig Handy, Dave Bargeron, David Taylor, Don Alias, Earl Gardner
Fancy Chamber Music
1998
More Jazz Visits
2006
The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
2007
With Gary Burton
- 1967: A Genuine Tong Funeral (RCA)
With the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra
- 1966: Communication (Fontana) Jazz Composer’s Orchestra
- 1968: The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra (JCOA) (led by Michael Mantler)
Carla Bley, The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra
Escalator Over The Hill – A Chronotransduction By Carla Bley And Paul Haines
1968-1971
- 1973: Relativity Suite (JCOA) (led by Don Cherry)
- 1975: The Gardens of Harlem (JCOA) (led by Clifford Thornton)
- 1975: Echoes of Prayer (JCOA) (led by Grachan Moncur III)
With Michael Mantler
- 1966: Jazz Realities (Fontana) (with Steve Lacy)
- 1973: No Answer (WATT) (with Jack Bruce & Don Cherry – texts by Samuel Beckett)
- 1975: 13 & ¾
- 1976: The Hapless Child (texts by Edward Gorey)
- 1976: Silence (texts by Harold Pinter)
- 1977: Movies
- 1980: More Movies
- 1982: Something There
With Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra
with Charlie Haden
- 1983: The Ballad of the Fallen (ECM)
- 1990: Dream Keeper (Blue Note)
- 2005: Not in Our Name (Verve)
- 2016: Time/Life (Impulse!)
With Nick Mason
- 1979: Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports (Harvest) (released in 1981)
With Steve Swallow
As sidewoman
1995: Jazz to the World — various artists (performs „Let It Snow„)
1975: Jack Bruce – The Jack Bruce Band Live ’75 (released 2003)
1975: Jack Bruce – Live on the Old Grey Whistle Test (released 1998)
1977: John Greaves – Kew. Rhone.
1981: Amarcord Nino Rota (Hannibal) — various artists tribute to Nino Rota (performs „8½“)
1984: That’s the Way I Feel Now (A&M) — various artists tribute to Thelonious Monk (performs „Misterioso“)
1985: Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill — various artists tribute to Kurt Weill (performs „Lost in the Stars„)
1971-85: Gary Windo – His Master’s Bones
1985: The Golden Palominos – Visions of Excess
1991: The Golden Palominos – Drunk with Passion
Carla Bley Carla Bley (born Lovella May Borg; May 11, 1936 – October 17, 2023) was an American jazz composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader.