Her arrangement of the score for Federico Fellini's 8½ appeared on Hal Willner's Nino Rota tribute record, Amarcord Nino Rota. She arranged and composed music for Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, and wrote A Genuine Tong Funeral for 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 Services which specialized in small, independent labels that issued recordings of creative improvised music.īley has collaborated with a number of other artists, including Jack Bruce, Robert Wyatt and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, whose 1981 solo album Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports was a Carla Bley album in all but name. Bley and Mantler followed with WATT Records, which has issued their recordings exclusively since the early 1970s. 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. 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. The couple later divorced.Ī number of musicians began to record her compositions: George Russell recorded "Bent Eagle" on his 1960 release Stratusphunk in 1960 Jimmy Giuffre recorded "Ictus" on his album Thesis and Paul Bley's Barrage consisted entirely of her compositions. After giving up the church to immerse herself in roller skating at the age of fourteen, she moved to New York at seventeen and became a cigarette girl at Birdland, where she met jazz pianist Paul Bley, whom she married in 1957. Her father, a piano teacher and church choirmaster, encouraged her to sing and to learn to play the piano. Video:Carla Bley and Steve Swallow - Lawns File:Carla Bley KK.jpgĬarla Bley at Keystone Korner, San Francisco 1979 (photo: Brian McMillen)īley was born in Oakland, California.
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