Jazz Articles about Carla Bley

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More Fall Releases, Jazz Birthdays, A Celebration of Carla Bley & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
November 6, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Angelica Sanchez, Nabou Claerhout Trombone Ensemble, Ramona Horvath, the Affinity Trio (Eric Jacobson, Clay Shaub, Pamela York), with birthday shoutouts to lyricist Dory Previn, Andy Bey, Emily Braden, Dame Cleo Laine, Magos Herrera, Amanda Monaco, Beat poet Fran Landesman (Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most), Dianne Reeves and Jay Clayton, among others. In the first hour a tribute to mark the passing of Carla Bley. Thanks for listening and please support the ...

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Remembering Carla Bley: Jazz Innovator Extraordinaire

by Ian Patterson
October 25, 2023

Carla Bley, composer, arranger, free-jazz pioneer, band leader, pianist and independent, whose compositions became jazz standards, has died at the age of 87. She had been diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018. Bley's most famous recording was her sprawling, genre-elusive triple album Escalator Over the Hill (JCOA Records, 1971). On the back of this album, in 1972, Bley won a Guggenheim Fellowship for composition. In a sixty-year career her music covered a wide arc, from large-scale ...

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Carla Bley Tribute, Bartók Jazz, Hot Sax LPs

by David Brown
October 24, 2023

This week includes jazz takes on Bela Bartók, a Set of Hot Sax and a look at Philly arranger Lee Lovett. The second half of the show will be dedicated to the compositions of Carla Bley who passed this week. Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will explore the elements of jazz from a historical perspective. PlaylistThelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the ...

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Carla Bley: Shoe Leather, Mystery & Moxie

by Ian Patterson
October 23, 2023

This article was first published at All About Jazz on July 28, 2016. With the passing of time. That's roughly how the title of Carla Bley's second trio album for ECM translates. Bley turned eighty a few months before the release of Andando el Tiempo but the passing years, if anything, have sharpened her composer's claws and whetted her playing appetite, judging by the music on this, her third collaboration with Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard following the ...

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Carla Bley On The Creation Of Birds Of Paradise

by Ben Sparks
February 14, 2023

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Life Goes On: And On - Celebrating the Music of Carla Bley

by Mary Foster Conklin
May 23, 2022

This broadcast presents new releases from Marco Pignataro's Dream Alliance, flutist Andrea Brachfeld, vocalists Nancy Kelly and Rosemary Loar, with birthday shoutouts to Carla Bley, Betty Carter, Virginia Mayhew and Nadje Noordhuis, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of pandemic so they can continue to distract, comfort, inspire and provoke.Playlist Billy Preston “Uptight (Everything's Alright)" from Wildest Organ In Town (EMI) 00:00 Marco Pignataro's Dream ...

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Life Goes On - Celebrating Jazz Master Carla Bley On Her 85th Birthday

by Mary Foster Conklin
May 24, 2021

This broadcast celebrates the birthdays of Jazz Masters Carla Bley in the first hour and Betty Carter in the second, plus new releases from Ruben Blades y Roberto Delgado & Orquestra, Rebecca Kilgore and the Keith Brown Trio. Other birthday shoutouts include Virginia Mayhew, Karin Krog, Nadje Noordhuis, Kate Reid and Grace Kelly, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of lockdown.Playlist Virginia Mayhew Quartet “Medi ...