Carla Bley
Something of a first lady of the avant-garde, pianist/composer/arranger Carla Bley began writing jazz charts for top-name players in the late 1950s. In the mid '60s she helped found the Jazz Composers' Orchestra, which marked her first forays into a more complex free-jazz realm. Her long-form piece ESCALATOR OVER THE HILL, written in 1968, stands as a distinct stylistic signpost of the era. Bley would go on to work with a host of free-jazz icons--including Pharaoh Sanders, Steve Lacy, and Peter Brotzmann, among others--and continued to compose challenging genre-bending works into the 21st century.
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Albums
- (2007) The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
- (2004) The Lost Chords
- (2004) Rarum XV / Selected Recordings
- (2000) Escalator Over The Hill - A Chronotransduction by Carla Bley and Paul Haines
- (2000) Dinner Music
- (2000) Social Studies
- (2000) Sextet
- (2000) Big Band Theory
- (2000) Fancy Chamber Music
- (2000) Heavy Heart
- (2000) I Hate To Sing
- (2000) Night-Glo
- (2000) Duets
- (2000) Fleur Carnivore
- (2000) Go Together
- (2000) Tropic Appetites
- (2000) Are We There Yet?
- (2000) 4 X 4
- (2000) Songs With Legs
- (1993) Big Band Theory
- (1988) Duets
- (1981) Social Studies
- (1977) Dinner Music
- (1971) Escalator Over The Hill CD1
- (1971) Escalator Over The Hill CD2
Top Tracks
- Fresh Impression
- Ad Infinitum
- On The Stage In Cages
- Dining Alone
- Birds Of Paradise
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