Carla Bley, the pianist behind some of the most beloved compositions in the jazz canon, who recorded over two dozen albums between 1966 and 2019, died Tuesday. Her death was confirmed by her husband ...
Bley, who died Oct. 17, led her own large and small touring bands from the 1970s until a few years ago — but jazz musicians had been playing her enigmatic compositions long before that. This is FRESH ...
"Since the Montreal-born, long-US resident Bley's 50's debut with Mingus and Blakey, he's worked with more first-rate, wide ranging original musical minds than anyone but Miles..." —Howard Mandel, ...
Every jazz fan knows the name of Carla Bley, but her relentless productivity and constant reinvention can make it difficult to grasp her contribution to music. I began listening to her in high school ...
Carla Bley was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of brain cancer back in 2018, which she revealed in an exclusive interview with The Quietus on April 13, 2021, stating: "I have a little piece of my ...
Carla Bley, the pianist, composer, bandleader, and pioneer of the free jazz movement, has died from complications of brain cancer, The New York Times reports, citing the musician’s partner of more ...
Paul Bley, the jazz pianist whose recordings in the 1960s and 1970s helped redefine lyricism in jazz, has died. He was 83. Born in Montreal, Bley in his early career played with Charlie Parker and ...
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Paul Bley performing at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Hague in 1990 Credit: Photo: Frans Schellekens/Redferns Paul Bley, the pianist and composer, who has died aged 83, was a moving spirit in the ...
Ragna Bley, "Undertown (Heat)" (2020). Acrylic on sailcloth, 59 x 37 1/2 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Downs & Ross New York; photo by Daniel Terna) In nautical terminology, to “sound” is ...
Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at ...
Carla Bley, the dignified jazz composer, may at times be whimsical, but has never been in danger of turning fey. Her early jazz experiences with George Russell and the pianist Paul Bley, coupled with ...