HANOVER, NH-In the ’50s, Carla Bley dropped out of high school in California, headed for New York, and took a job as a cigarette girl at the jazz club Birdland so she could soak up the music. This led ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Composer, bandleader and pianist Carla Bley has remained one of the most beguiling artists in jazz for more than half a century. Her brilliant and ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X There’s very little that Carla Bley hasn’t done during her near-60-year career. In the 1960s, the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Not even the heavens could keep jazz titan Carla Bley away at the Cistern on Friday night. A ...

WILLOW, N.Y. — Steve Swallow greets a recent visitor to the rustic home he shares with Carla Bley in the woods outside this hamlet a few miles northwest of Woodstock. He puts on some fresh coffee, and ...

Composer and pianist Carla Bley is generally associated with the avant-garde or free jazz movement. This might only be due to the process of elimination, as her music doesn’t sound like bebop, swing, ...

Coming off a recent illness, the legendary composer-pianist Carla Bley has her sense of humor and political instincts intact on Life Goes On. The trio album with saxophonist Andy Sheppard and bassist ...