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Meet Carla Bley
by Craig Jolley
A Genuine Tong Funeral (RCA). 1967 record by Gary Burton quartet with orchestra; music composed and arranged by Bley. It was my first big break. After the Funeral I did quite a few big projects. After all this time it's going to be performed next March at Iowa State University. The faculty of the music department approached me. They were just talking about doing a concert. I said, “There are parts of this that have never happened yet--the stage presentation." ...
Continue ReadingCarla Bley: Fancy Chamber Music
by Ian Nicolson
Carla Bley is sixty this year. Which factoid seems so far beyond the range of the probable that it's worth repeating to myself every time I listen to her astonishing compositions and equally astonishing ensembles. Bley's latest set, with the eight-piece band she named after the new recording (which did come first, chicken or...?), is as calmly revolutionary as even the best of her seventies work.Meanwhile ECM has also chosen to simultaneously re-release two of those seventies gems ...
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