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^ Ben Sidran, Talking Jazz: An Illustrated Oral History, Pomegranate Artbooks, 1992.

The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (ConciseВ ed.).

^ New York Times: Carla Bley, Still Improvising and Inspiring as She Turns 80.

Д«ley received the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 2015. In 2009, she was awarded the German Jazz Trophy 'A Life for Jazz'. Awards Д«ley was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 for music composition.

In 2005, she arranged the music for and performed on Charlie Haden's latest Liberation Music Orchestra tour and recording, Not in Our Name. Her partner is the bassist Steve Swallow. She has continued to record frequently with her own big band, which has included Blood, Sweat & Tears' notable Lew Soloff, and a number of smaller ensembles, notably the Lost Chords. Mason's solo debut album Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports was entirely written by Bley and performed by her regular band with Mason as a guest, making it in effect a Carla Bley album in all but name.

Bley has collaborated with a number of other artists, including Jack Bruce, Robert Wyatt and Nick Mason, drummer for the rock group Pink Floyd. She arranged and composed music for bassist Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, and wrote A Genuine Tong Funeral for vibraphonist Gary Burton. 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'. With Mantler, she co-led the Jazz Composers' Orchestra and started the JCOA record label which issued a number of historic recordings by Clifford Thornton, Don Cherry and Roswell Rudd, as well as her own magnum opus Escalator Over The Hill and Mantler's The Jazz Composer's Orchestra LPs. Bley and Mantler were married from 1965-91.

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She then had a personal and professional relationship with Michael Mantler, with whom she had a daughter, Karen, now also a musician in her own right. In 1964, she was involved in organising the Jazz Composers Guild, which brought together the most innovative musicians in New York at the time. Throughout her career, Bley has thought of herself as a writer first, describing herself as 99 percent composer and one percent pianist. At 19 she married dour avant garde Montreal pianist Paul Carlla for a while.Carla Bley conducts her band at the Pori Jazz Festival in Pori, Finland, 1978.ДЄ number of musicians began to record Bley's compositions: George Russell recorded 'Bent Eagle' for his album Stratusphunk in 1960 Jimmy Giuffre recorded 'Ictus' on his album Thesis and Paul Bley's Barrage consisted entirely of her compositions.

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Then she was married to Austrian avant garde trumpeter Michael Mantler from towith whom she pioneered the independent free jazz scene, establishing an artist-owned big band, record label and distribution agency for progressive jazz. It was also way back then that I was introduced to a different version of Paul Bley playing Ida Lupino, on an obscure sampler album put out by ESP records. WhatвЂ™s going on in this tune? Carla Bley вЂ“ Lawns. Speaking of Chinese torture music I am most familiar with Carla Bley from A Genuine Lanws Funeral, a work 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. Stream Carla Bley And Steve Swallow вЂ“ 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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