CARLA BLEY LAWNS LEAD SHEET PROFESSIONAL

Beal, and you yourself have written about your own music quite a bit over the years. Carla Bley in conversation with Frank J.(From January 2018 and transcribed by Lysa Hale.)Д®than Iverson: Carla, youвЂ™ve been interviewed so much.Carla Bley and Steve Swallow video interview about Dreams So Real and working with ECM Records.^ 'German Jazz Trophy 2012 - Monty Alexander'.^ 'German Jazz Trophy for Carla Bley'.^ 'John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Carla Bley'.'A Traditional Jazz Christmas, An Unlikely Source'. ^ 'Bley's MySpace page cites Swallow as her partner'.^ Review of Andando el Tiempo (2017), The Irish Times June 2, 2016.^ Philippe Carles, AndrГ© Clergeat, and Jean-Louis Comolli, Dictionnaire du jazz, Paris, 1994.^ 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.

CARLA BLEY LAWNS LEAD SHEET PROFESSIONAL

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. 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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