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	Carla Bley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carla Bley, née Borg, (born May 11, 1938 in Oakland, California) is an American jazz composer, pianist and band leader.
		Bley and Mantler followed with WATT records which has issued their recordings exclusively from the early-1970s onward.
		Bley and Mantler were pioneers in the development of independent artist-owned record labels and also started the now defunct New Music Distribution Service which specialized in small, independent labels that issued recordings of creative improvised music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carla_Bley (423 words)

	VH1.com : Carla Bley : Biography
		Bley possesses an unusually wide compositional range; she combines an acquaintance with and love for jazz in all its forms with great talent and originality.
		Bley is capable of writing music of great drama and profound humor, often within the confines of the same piece.
		Bley's asymmetrical compositional structures subvert jazz formula to wonderful effect, and her unpredictable melodies are often as catchy as they are obscure.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/bley_carla/bio.jhtml (508 words)

	Composer brings an element of surprise to her work - The Boston Globe
		Carla Bley has a pair of interesting memories from her previous appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival -- which happened 40 years ago this summer.
		Bley, 67, will be playing piano, but she's best known for her work as a composer and arranger.
		Bley is the only musician besides Haden to have been with the LMO throughout its 37-year history.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/08/12/composer_brings_an_element_of_surprise_to_her_work (971 words)

	Jazz Police - Carla Bley and "The Lost Chords" tour stops in LA
		Carla Bley is keeping Steve Swallow, Andy Sheppard and Billy Drummond busy in September on a whirl-wind tour that stops at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles from 09/06/2005 trhough 9/10/2005, then moves on to Yoshi's, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and Jazz Alley.
		Carla Bley, (born May 11, 1938 in Oakland, California) is an American jazz composer, pianist and band leader.
		Carla Bley's father, a piano teacher and church choirmaster, encouraged her to sing and to learn to play the piano.
	www.jazzpolice.com /content/view/5320/118 (482 words)

	Innovative jazz artists will be Ida Beam visitors March 20-25
		IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Carla Bley, recognized for more than 30 years as an innovative jazz composer and pianist, and Steve Swallow, her longtime musical partner who is known as a trailblazing electric bass player, will be Ida Beam visiting faculty members at the University of Iowa School of Music March 20-25.
		Carla is at the top of her form as both composer and bandleader in this music.
		Bley's and Swallow's activities at the UI are supported by the Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professorships Program, which brings outstanding scholars to the UI campus for residencies ranging from a few days to an entire academic year.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2001/march/0309bleyswallow.html (1372 words)

	John McLaughlin Archives [MOVIES]
		Bley and librettist Paul Haines called it a "chronotransduction," whatever that means.
		OK, Carla Bley is a composer whose place in jazz history is assured, and "Escalator Over the Hill" is a highly original opera - sorry, chronotransduction - with words by Paul Haines.
		In 1968, Carla was the precursor of rock operas ("Tommy") and for the entire fusion movement.
	www.angelfire.com /jazz/jm3/eoth_album.html (854 words)

	Carla Bley / Steve Swallow: Are We There Yet? - PopMatters Music Review
		Once Bley started recording music as a leader in the 1970s, notably for her own WATT Works label (which she co-founded with Michael Mantler), Swallow was more often than not the bassist on the gig whether or not the band was a trio, an octet or a big band.
		While Bley is in no sense a flashy pianist, she has the ability to be deadly accurate in terms of time, tone and phrasing, without sounding stiff or unspontaneous.
		On "Satie for Two" Bley seems to play as little as possible, and in doing so concentrates the listener's attention on the quality of the specific notes and chords she is playing.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/b/bley-swallow-are.shtml (627 words)

	NPR's Jazz Profiles: Carla Bley
		As a young woman, Carla moved to New York City to be closer to the source of bebop, and received the remainder of her jazz education as a cigarette girl at the notorious Birdland Jazz Club where she met her first husband, pianist Paul Bley (left).
		After hooking up with Paul Bley, Carla relocated to Los Angeles with him, where his group had a steady gig at the Hillcrest Club, and she tried her hand at composing for the first time.
		After 40 years in the business, Carla Bley is still going strong, returning to her roots with one of her 1996 CDs, Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church (ECM), and on her most recent disk, 4 x 4 (ECM 200).
	www.npr.org /programs/jazzprofiles/archive/bley.html (552 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: MUSIC Carla Bley and David Murray Turn to Big Bands to Tackle Big Ideas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bley has experience working with anthems, for she was the arranger for the two albums by Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, which gave jazz treatments to revolutionary songs from Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
		Like many American leftists, Bley was surprised to feel a surge of patriotism in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the United States, feelings of national affection intertwined with anger at a government that so often betrays the country's ideals.
		Bley confronts that challenge with her big band rather than her combo, for if a jazz quartet or quintet echoes the give-and-take in a family or a circle of friends, the jazz big band echoes the push-and-pull of the larger community.
	www.citypaper.com /music/story.asp?id=5661 (1220 words)

	Carla Bley Big Band: Looking for America - PopMatters Music Review
		Like Bley, a lot of people are looking for America right now, and, if her music is any indication, what she and they are finding is a mixed bag.
		Bley goes further, seeing what we were as a function of what we have become.
		Bley clearly loves writing for big band, and were it not prohibitively expensive, likely would do so more often.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/b/bleycarla-looking.shtml (976 words)

	Biography - Carla Bley
		This was an unusual instrumentation for Carla and she spent a good deal of time re-orchestrating and organizing some of her older pieces.
		Carla performed the first part of each concert with the chamber group and the second part with her Big Band (which involved a complete costume change between sets).
		Carla spent the winter arranging and orchestrating material for her next project: a group consisting of 4 horns and a 4 piece rhythm section called 4x4.
	www.wattxtrawatt.com /biocarla.htm (4310 words)

	Carla Bley & The Lost Chords - The Jazz Bakery
		Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936.
		During her adolescence Carla was drawn to jazz and moved to New York City to be closer to the musicians she admired.
		Carla's next regular group was an enlarged rhythm section without horns, but she still made recordings with larger groups.
	www.goldstarevents.com /cajaycees/groupevents/event.pl?id=5232 (2791 words)

	IAJO - The Jazz Organ Scene USA, Carla Bley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At the early age of 17, Carla went to New York where she worked as a pianist and composer.
		Later, in 1964, Carla formed the Jazz Composers Guild Orchestra, together with her second husband Michael Mantler.
		In the 70's and 80's, Carla had her own groups of six and ten musicians with whom she toured through the USA and Europe.
	www.jwolf.com /iajo/iajo04/usa/bley.htm (187 words)

	E.J.N. - CARLA BLEY
		Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1938.
		Meanwhile: The Friedman enlargements, supervised by Carla and Steve Swallow, were recorded in Palermo by the Orchestra Jazz Siciliana and released on the XtraWatt label.
		Carla continued playing with Steve Swallow, with whom she was now living.
	www.ejn.it /mus/c_bley.htm (2521 words)

	Summary: Die Jazz-Komponistin Carla Bley. Kurzbiographie, Werkanalyse, Würdigung
		Her work and also the ensembles have become more extensive, but the substance of the compositions has largely remained the same: lyrical ballads, bizarre constructions with dominating chromaticism and an inventive treatment of modality, continuously stand in the centre of her work.
		Carla Bley plays on her own records and frequently sits in at the piano on other recordings.
		In the article "The Jazz Composer Carla Bley", her artistic biography is traced, themes of the composer are analysed via musical examples and the record suites discussed.
	www.kug.ac.at /ijf/website_directory/publications/jazz_research/summaries/vol_8/buhles.html (287 words)

	Carla Bley \| The Lost Chords
		Carla Bley would appear to be the resident smart-aleck of the jazz world.
		Bley leading a highly interactive quartet in a live session that offers both depth and fun.
		Prodded by Bley's jabbing, urgent piano chords, he fashions a brilliantly intense, probing improvisation, building and sustainging tension as Swallow and Drummond provide further commentary.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=14176 (410 words)

	CD Review of Carla Bley - 4x4 on ECM @ jazzreview.com
		Carla Bley is surely one of the most imaginative big-band jazz composers currently sharing our atmosphere — her stuff is lively, humorous, quirky, swinging, out-there & firmly based in the blues and Charles Ives.
		This recent disc finds Bley scaling down her big band to an octet: four horns, piano, organ, bass and drums.
		Carla Bley has done it again: served-up some “fun” jazz creatively and made creative jazz fun.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=1469 (290 words)

	BBC - Jazz Review - Carla Bley, Selected Recordings
		Bley started up her WATT imprint in 1973, effectively an ECM subsidiary, and as Carla admits, probably shooting off in directions that label head Manfred Eicher wouldn't necessarily choose himself.
		Like most of her co-selectors, Carla takes advantage of a varied songbook; the piano/bass duet of "Major" is followed by the studied cool of her Fancy Chamber Music line-up with strings, flute, clarinet and vibraphone.
		After this, the trio with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow drives hard, Bley playing with an earthily percussive attack, her partners skimming lightly beside her.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/jazz/reviews/bleyc_selected.shtml (433 words)

	Plan 9 - Carla Bley : The Lost Chords * (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pianist/composer Carla Bley strikes again with another predictably unpredictable and enchanting album.
		Bley seems to be getting in touch with her inner Thelonious Monk, since the music here is genially lyrical, succinct, and swinging.
		Here, Bley continues to do what she does best--jazz that is both warmly welcoming and boldly creative.
	www.buymusichere.net /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=12&upc=60249817953 (276 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts reviews \| Carla Bley/ The Lost Chords, The Lost Chords
		Searching for essences is a lifetime's work, but the American composer Carla Bley seems to have redoubled her efforts since she became a senior citizen.
		A dozen or more years ago, Bley and Swallow struck up a chance relationship with the British saxophonist Andy Sheppard - they were assembled into a trio for a TV special - and the connection has been important for Bley's capriciously illustrious career.
		When the trio was born, Bley was catapulted into the unfamiliar role of piano soloist rather than composer/ arranger, and was uncomfortable with it through much of the 1990s.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1246459,00.html (475 words)

	Carla Bley
		Born to musician parents, Carla Bley was immersed in music since her birth -- although primarily in the context of the church.
		In 1972 Bley completed her most ambitious (and subsequently most well-known) project, the opera Escalator Over the Hill, which was written in collaboration with poet Paul Haines and featured an enormous cast of musicians that included John McLaughlin, Jack Bruce, Linda Ronstadt, Don Cherry, and her daughter Karen Mantler.
		In the three decades that have followed, Carla Bley has remained constantly active, perfoming with and composing for a vast roster of musicians all over the world.
	www.nndb.com /people/313/000044181 (321 words)

	Stereophile: Carla Bley: The Further Adventures of the Lone Arranger
		Carla Bley has been particularly fortunate in the recorded sound she has achieved through the years.
		Still, a catalog as densely populated as Bley's might prove intimidating to those who haven't experienced her music, so here are a few of my favorites.
		Bley says this release is it—she's not going to play duets any more.
	www.stereophile.com /interviews/661/index2.html (497 words)

	Carla Bley \| 4 X 4
		Admired by other composers as wide-ranging as Tom Harrell and Gary Burton, Bley’s originality springs from her powers of observation and her intent to convert naturally musical sounds to the framework of appropriate meters, of notatable forms and of instrumental pitches.
		A case in point: Carla Bley’s “Sidewinders In Paradise” grew organically into an amalgam of Lee Morgan’s “Sidewinder” rhythm, the chirps and blurts of birds and frogs on a Caribbean island, and a not-too-subtle reference to the kitschy tune, “Strangers In Paradise.”
		Paring down to 8 musicians (4X4) from her big band, Carla Bley has created yet another group which defies expectations, and which for that reason delights as well.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r1000_009.htm (372 words)

	Carla Bley News
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		Carla Bley September 01, 8 & 10, plus 11:30 sets on Fri.
		Jazz pianist Carla Bley brought big hair to bebop, and she once beat prog-rock at its own game with a 3-LP jazz opera.
	www.topix.net /who/carla-bley (108 words)

	Carla Bley at Yoshi's
		Bley possesses an unusually wide compositional range; she combines an acquaintance with and a love for jazz in all its forms with great talent and originality and she is capable of writing music to great drama and profound humor, often within the confines of the same piece."
		Originally from Oakland, pianist and composer Carla Bley appears at Yoshi's with her latest project, the Lost Chords, with her long-time musical partner Steve Swallow on bass, Andy Sheppard on saxophones and Billy Drummond on drums.
		Bley is one of the most prolific composers in jazz over the last thirty years and her recorded output is extensive.
	www.yoshis.com /artist/carla_bley/showsheet.shtml (491 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Carla Bley and the Lost Chords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Carla Bley remains one of jazz's quirkier free thinkers, aware of the traditions yet always going her own way with them or without them.
		Mostly, though, Bley's first set Tuesday night re-examined older material -- the attractive three-part bossa nova from the mid-1980s "The Girl Who Cried Champagne," a knowing 1980s ballad called "Rut." There was also an arrangement of "Someone to Watch Over Me" that blithely skipped all mention of the Gershwin tune until just before the close.
		Bley didn't aspire to be a piano virtuoso on this occasion; her solo work was simple, to the point, always melodic, yet quietly loaded with harmonic applications, like working sketches for a big-band chart.
	www.variety.com /av_result.asp?articleid=VE1117928098&nid=2562 (326 words)

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