Carla Bley

United States
May 11, 1936

jazz

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Carla Bley (née Lovella May Borg; born May 11, 1936) is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader. An important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator over the Hill (released as a triple LP set), as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Art Farmer, John Scofield and her ex-husband Paul Bley.

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Carla Bley top songs

1	Copycat: After You
2	Life Goes On: And On
3	A New Hymn
4	Song Sung Long
5	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
6	Healing Power
7	Hotel Overture
8	Two Banana
9	Dining Alone
10	Nothing
11	Dreams So Real
12	Soon I Will Be Done With the Troubles of This World
13	Life Goes On: Life Goes On
14	Life Goes On: On
15	Dining Alone
16	Romantic Notion #6
17	Walking Batteriewoman
18	Jingle Bells
19	Funnybird Song
20	What Will Be Left Between Us and the Moon Tonight?
21	Lost In The Stars

Carla Bley quotes

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.