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Carla Bley: The Lost Chords
by AAJ Staff
Carla Bley would appear to be the resident smart-aleck of the jazz world. In fact, she's a composer, arranger, and bandleader of considerable gifts and stature, and a new release by her is prima facie important. The Lost Chords finds Ms. Bley leading a highly interactive quartet in a live session that offers both depth and ...
Carla Bley: The Lost Chords
by John Kelman
While she is perhaps better known for her large group work, including Fleur Carnivore , Goes to Church and last year's marvellous Looking for America , Carla Bley has experimented with smaller ensembles over the years, right down to duos and trios. But never, arguably, as successfully as with The Lost Chords , a pared down ...
Carla Bley: Rarum XV: Selected Recordings
by Norman Weinstein
ECM has recorded the gifted and goofy composer and keyboardist Carla Bley for three decades, and this single disc career retrospective is a brilliantly compiled testimony to the breath and depth of Bley's singular talent. Until Bley, humor in jazz was primitively realized at best (e.g. vaudeville antics of Slim & Slam, Dizzy's hipster's jokes). She ...
Looking for America
By Carla Bley
Label: Watt/ECM
Released: 2003
Track listing: Grand Mother; The National Anthem; Step Mother; Fast Lane; Los Cocineros; Your Mother; Tijuana
Traffic; God Mother; Old MacDonald Had A Farm.
The Carla Bley Big Band: Looking for America
by C. Michael Bailey
Carla Bley is the love child of Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, and Charles Ives. But still, that does not seem to tell the whole story. Born into a musical family, pre-war, on the West Coast, Bley naturally became a musician and spent a good deal of time in church to boot. The latter of these biographical ...
4X4
By Carla Bley
Label: WATT Works
Released: 2000
Track listing:
Blues In Twelve Bars/Blues In Twelve Other Bars; Sidewinders In Paradise; Les Trois Lagons; Baseball; Utviklingssang
Carla Bley: 4 X 4
by C. Andrew Hovan
Yeah, those duo discs with Steve Swallow and Carla Bley are nice, but give me a large ensemble and some Carla originals and then you’ve really got something. 4 x 4 surely is something else, perhaps Bley’s best and most charming work of the past several years. So, what’s with the title? Well, here’s the premise: ...
Carla Bley: 4 X 4
by AAJ Staff
One can always anticipate originality from Carla Bley. And she doesn’t disappoint.Admired by other composers as wide-ranging as Tom Harrell and Gary Burton, Bley’s originality springs from her powers of observation and her intent to convert naturally musical sounds to the framework of appropriate meters, of notatable forms and of instrumental pitches. Burton shares ...
