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World-renowned Smoke Jazz Club Ends The Year With The 11th Annual Coltrane Festival Countdown 2024, New Year’s Eve Celebration With Carla Cook, And More
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AMT Public Relations
Rated the #1 Jazz Club in New York City (Secret NYC), SMOKE Jazz Club ends 2023 with an exciting line-up in December. The month begins with a rare solo piano doubleheader by Brad Mehldau (Dec 1-2) preceded by his Trio (Nov 29-30). For 11 nights, SMOKE presents its 11th annual Coltrane Festival: “Countdown 2024.” Some of today’s top musicians join forces to celebrate the life and musical legacy of the great saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. Tenor giant George Coleman ...
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Carla Bley: 1936-2023
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Carla Bley, a pianist, composer and arranger who carved out her own niche in avant-garde jazz, creating a singular musical style that was both daring and distinctly tender, died on October 17. She was 87. During my interview with Carla for The Wall Street Journal in 2020, she was remarkably open and almost journalistic recalling her childhood years. As she said during our conversation: My family lived in East Oakland, Calif., in a small white house next to a vacant ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today!
Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of eight. Her formal education stopped entirely when she dropped out of high school after completing the tenth grade. During her adolescence Carla was drawn ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today!
Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of eight. Her formal education stopped entirely when she dropped out of high school after completing the tenth grade. During her adolescence Carla was drawn ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today!
Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of eight. Her formal education stopped entirely when she dropped out of high school after completing the tenth grade. During her adolescence Carla was drawn ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today!
Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of eight. Her formal education stopped entirely when she dropped out of high school after completing the tenth grade. During her adolescence Carla was drawn ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today!
Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of eight. Her formal education stopped entirely when she dropped out of high school after completing the tenth grade... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today!
Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of eight. Her formal education stopped entirely when she dropped out of high school after completing the tenth grade... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today!
Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of eight. Her formal education stopped entirely when she dropped out of high school after completing the tenth grade... Read more.
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today!
Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of eight. Her formal education stopped entirely when she dropped out of high school after completing the tenth grade... Read more.
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