Carla Bley
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Artist's Top Tracks
| Life Goes On: Life Goes On | Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow | 06:00 | |
| Lawns | Carla Bley | 07:04 | |
| Útviklingssang | Carla Bley | 09:18 | |
| Life Goes On: And On | Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow | 04:10 | |
| India Song | Kip Hanrahan | 04:16 | |
| Sing Me Softly Of The Blues | Carla Bley | 07:42 | |
| Útviklingssang | Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow | 07:55 | |
| The Girl Who Cried Champagne | Carla Bley | 06:06 | |
| Houses & People | Carla Bley | 07:25 | |
| Healing Power | Carla Bley | 06:22 |
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| Útviklingssang | |
| Vashkar | |
| Les trois lagons (d'après Henri Matisse) | |
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Biography
Carla Bley is an American jazz musician who has had success as a solo artist and with ensembles including her Big Band for many decades. She has had three releases on Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart: 'Carla's Christmas Carols' (2010) with bassist Steve Swallow and the Partyka Brass Quintet which went to number 16, 'Trios' (2013) with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow which peaked at number 19 and 'Andando El Tiempo' (2016) with Sheppard and Swallow which reached number 14. She has received two Grammy Award nominations with Carla Bley Big Band for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for 'Looking for America' (2003) and 'Appearing Nightly' (2008).
Born to a musical family in northern California she learned to play piano as a child and at the age of 17 moved to New York where she met and later married Canadian jazz pianist Paul Bley. When she began writing, artists such as George Russell, Jimmy Giuffre and Paul Bley recorded her compositions and she played a role in the formation of the Jazz Composers Guild in 1964. She was co-leader of the Jazz Composers Orchestra and collaborated with many artists such as Jack Bruce, Nick Mason and Robert Wyatt. She has also provided arrangements for others including Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and producer Hal Willner's 'Amarcord Nino Rota'. Her most acclaimed recordings include 'Escalator Over the Hill' (1971), 'Dinner Music' (1977), 'Carla Bley Live' (1982) and 'Fleur Carnivore' (1988). She most recently released the album 'Life Goes On' in February 2020 with Sheppard and Swallow.