CapitalBop is thrilled to be working in partnership with the Washington Women in Jazz Festival to present Bley here with her long-standing trio, featuring bassist Steve Swallow and saxophonist Andy Sheppard. 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. Bley is at the top of the pantheon of jazz composition. Carla Bley, ne Borg, (born May 11, 1936) is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. She has amassed dozens of recordings under her name, mostly dedicated to her own compositions, and her pen has helped define the sound of ECM Records, which turns 50 this year. She helped establish the Jazz Composers’ Guild, which promoted lasting camaraderie and collaboration among the city’s innovative musicians, especially those associated with the burgeoning avant-garde movement. However, it is perhaps as a composer that Bley has received the most recognition and made the greatest impact.
As a pianist, she was involved in both performing and organizing alongside many other historic names in that period of New York City’s musical history. appearance with her trio in recent memory. Speaking of Chinese torture music I am most familiar with Carla Bley from A Genuine Tong Funeral, a car,a released as a Gary Burton album but which Bley was very much behind as composer and the brains behind the sections that were brass not vibes.Truly one of the master innovators, and a progenitor of radical new approaches to jazz in the 1960s, NEA Jazz Master Carla Bley, 82, will make her first D.C. Two distinct and distinctive personalities. She puts up the coffee, he goes for the lawjs.Īfter breakfast, they make music.
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In the early s, the trio of Jimmy Giuffre reedsPaul Bley and Steve Swallow, made a series of free jazz recordings that speak to me very directly and strongly. Then she was married to Austrian avant garde trumpeter Michael Mantler from towith whom she pioneered the independent free jazz scene, establishing an lawsn big band, record label and distribution agency for progressive jazz.ĭoes meaning have being? Why is there such suffering and pain? Where is the wellspring of wisdom? Thank you Kurt, both for your reading, and for getting me to go back and get past the hair.
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At 17, inCarla hitchhiked from California to New York, where she got a job as a cigarette girl in Birdland, a leading jazz venue.īUILDING MATERIALS-GEORGE SALVAN PDF Carla Bley Lead SheetsĪt 19 she married dour avant garde Montreal pianist Paul Bley for a while. Not screaming and strutting or popping buttons and groaning.
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He is a full partner in making the music. Her partner Steve Swallow eschewed the double bass for an electric bass in the late s, a pioneering move for a lawnns jazz musician.īut when you actually listen, you see that he more than holds his own.
But she is first and foremost a singular composer of elusive, intriguing, beautiful songs.
What’s going on in this tune? Carla Bley – Lawns. Stream Carla Bley And Steve Swallow – Lawns (live) by aNtoN from desktop or your mobile device. Looking at the lead sheet below, the key sig is D Major, but the resolutions sound and feel like G Major to me.
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