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Carla Bley

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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.


— Carla Bley


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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.


— Carla Bley


#band #best #between #big #big band

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.


— Carla Bley


#art #band #better #blues #could

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.


— Carla Bley


#happening #music #nothing #rock #times

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.


— Carla Bley


#band #banner #bus #elected #france

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.


— Carla Bley


#best #everything #go #jazz #just

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.


— Carla Bley


#chord #could #ever #fullest #horns






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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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