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Radio & Podcasts

Carla Bley, Phil Haynes, & Dan Phillips

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I pay tribute to the magnificent Carla Bley in this episode before moving on to drummer Phil Haynes and music from the extensive compilation he assembled to accompany his new memoir “Chasing the Masters: First Takes of a Modernist Drumming Artist." There's music from new releases by the Berlin-based Aut Records, a new two-drummer release by Chicago guitarist Dan Phillips, and drawing upon the ability to record asynchronously from far-off locations, drummer John Hollenbeck (in Montreal) plays with the Monash ...

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Carla Bley: A View from her Hill, Part 2

Read "Carla Bley: A View from her Hill, Part 2" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Artistically ambitious, a rare woman in a male dominated scene, taking the road less travelled, or even the road never travelled, and with her feet well on the ground business-wise to ensure her artistic independence, Carla Bley played a key role in shaping today's music scene. This week we concentrate on some of her signature compositions, focusing on her “church" side, her big band side, her catchy side, her electric side, and some of the musicians that embraced her work ...

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Radio & Podcasts

Carla Bley: A View from her Hill, Part 1

Read "Carla Bley: A View from her Hill, Part 1" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


We could spend hours talking about the many things that made Carla Bley unique, and made her passing a huge loss for the jazz world. This week we decided to focus on her songbook, as interpreted by many of the peers that admired her work. Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 The Gary Burton Quartet “Real Life Hits" Real Life Hits (ECM) 0:16 Host talks 8:44 Henri Texier Transatlantik Quartet “Ups ...

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Radio & Podcasts

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

Read "More Fall Releases, Jazz Birthdays, A Celebration of Carla Bley & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


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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Profile

Remembering Carla Bley: Jazz Innovator Extraordinaire

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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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Radio & Podcasts

Carla Bley Tribute, Bartók Jazz, Hot Sax LPs

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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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Interview

Carla Bley: Shoe Leather, Mystery & Moxie

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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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