Carla Bley
Carla Bley (née 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.
Early life
Carla Borg was born in Oakland, California. Her father, a piano teacher and church choirmaster, encouraged her to sing and to learn to play the piano. After giving up the church to immerse herself in roller skating at the age of fourteen, she moved to New York at seventeen and became a cigarette girl at Birdland, where she met jazz pianist Paul Bley, whom she married in 1957. He encouraged her to start composing. The couple later divorced but she kept his surname professionally.
Later life and career
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ALBUMS
- Trios released: 2013
- Carla's Christmas Carols released: 2009
- Appearing Nightly released: 2008
- The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu released: 2007
- The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu released: 2007
- Sextet released: 2005
- The Lost Chords released: 2004
- 4x4 released: 2000
- Are We There Yet? released: 1999
- Fancy Chamber Music released: 1998
- Escalator Over the Hill released: 1998
- Songs With Legs released: 1995
- Heavy Heart released: 1994
- Go Together released: 1993
- Big Band Theory released: 1993
- The Very Big Carla Bley Band released: 1991
- Duets released: 1988
- Dinner Music released: 1987
- Night-Glo released: 1985
- Mortelle Randonnée released: 1983
- The Ballad of the Fallen released: 1983
- Live! released: 1982
- TROPIC APPETITES released: 1974
- Tropic Appetites released: 1974
- Jazz Realities released: 1966
- rarum: Selected Recordings released:
- The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church released:
- Looking for America released:
- Social Studies released:
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