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Carla Bley

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I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.


— Carla Bley


#i #ignorance #regain #think #you

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.


— Carla Bley


#i #like #lush #out #parts

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.


— Carla Bley


#baker #chet #gerry #i #like

I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.


— Carla Bley


#america #bit #cars #enjoy #enough

I don't need much coaxing.


— Carla Bley


#much #need

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.


— Carla Bley


#father #free #got #i #instead

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.


— Carla Bley


#best #end #every #gallery #got

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.


— Carla Bley


#best #circle #come #full #i

I write very slowly.


— Carla Bley


#i write #slowly #very #write

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.


— Carla Bley


#anything #get #hard #joke #political






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Carla Bley has continued to record frequently with her own big band which has included Blood Sweat and Tears notable Lew Soloff and a number of smaller ensembles notably The Lost Chords. After giving up the church to immerse herself in roller skating at the age of fourteen Carla Bley moved to New York at seventeen and became a cigarette girl at Birdland where Carla Bley met jazz pianist Paul Bley whom Carla Bley married in 1957. Rhone.

An important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s Carla Bley 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 and her ex-husband Paul Bley.

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