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Carla Bley albums featuring Steve Swallow See all 15 items
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| | Appearing Nightly CD (2008)
 $15.05   
That her band is deemed "remarkable" is no understatement; trumpeter Lew Soloff and saxophonist Andy Sheppard are among the outstanding soloists. As always, Bley's originals are intricate, absorbing, and often moving, with opener "Greasy Gravy" and the epic "Appearing Nightly ...
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| 4 X 4 CD (2000)
$15.55  
4X4 is Carla Bley's attempt to create music for a sort of stripped-down big band. The eight players on board include four horns (trumpet, trombone, and alto and tenor saxophones), organ bass, drums, and Bley herself on piano. The combination ...
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| Looking For America CD (2003)
$14.79
LOOKING FOR AMERICA was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.
With an unlikely amalgam of influences including Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, Oliver Nelson, Charles Ives, and Woodstock-fatback-groove, Carla Bley's musical palette is a quirky and ...
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| Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu CD (2007)
$13.19
The curious title of Carla Bley's 2007 release THE LOST CHORDS FIND PAOLO FRESU is meant quite literally, since Bley's quartet the Lost Chords recruited Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu for the sessions. Fresu's clear, lyrical tone perfectly complements Bley's gorgeous ...
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| Musique Mecanique CD (1979)
$15.55
This album features much of the same band that performs on the wonderful EUROPEAN TOUR 1977. This is a varied set of Carla Bley's pieces, full of musical wit, warmth and invention. "440" (referring to the number of cycles in ...
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| Big Band Theory CD (1993)
$15.55
BIG BAND THEORY was nominated for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.
This 1993 set debuts three new compositions by Carla Bley as well as her arrangement of Charles Mingus's "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." BIG BAND ...
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| Heavy Heart CD (1984)
$15.55
This 1984 release finds Carla Bley and her eight-piece band heading into somewhat familiar territory. HEAVY HEART brings to mind Bley's earlier DINNER MUSIC. The large ensemble features Bley's organ and piano along with a few horn players, a drummer, ...
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| Live! CD (2000) Germany
$37.25
This is a live set recorded in 1981 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Much of this same band also recorded the half-live I HATE TO SING album at the same venue a few years later. Bley's ...
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| Sextet CD (1987)
$15.55
Carla Bley has always been one for fairly straightforward titles. This 1987 release features her music and playing as accompanied by five additional musicians. A late night feel pervades SEXTET, which is a bit like a more laid back version ...
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| Fancy Chamber Music CD (1998)
$15.55
Carla Bley has always been a composer of great precision, examining and elaborating subtle nuances with fine detail. It therefore comes as no surprise that she recorded this set of six compositions for a small ensemble of primarily classical-based players. ...
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 Carla Bley Songs
Popular or famous Carla Bley songs: Ad Infinitum, Talking Hearts, 440, Rawalpindi Blues, Funnybird Song, Fleur Carnivore, United States. More music songs Strange Arrangement, All Fall Down, Lo Ultimo, Sing Me Softly of the Blues, Song Sung Long, Brooklyn Bridge, Houses and People. More music songs Lawns, More Brahms, Night-Glo, Pretend You're in Love, Rut, Who Will Rescue You?.
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Carla Bley Biography
Something of a first lady of the avant-garde, pianist/composer/arranger Carla Bley began writing jazz charts for top-name players in the late 1950s. In the mid '60s she helped found the Jazz Composers' Orchestra, which marked her first forays into a more complex free-jazz realm. Her long-form piece ESCALATOR OVER THE HILL, written in 1968, stands as a distinct stylistic signpost of the era. Bley would go on to work with a host of free-jazz icons--including Pharaoh Sanders, Steve Lacy, and Peter Brotzmann, among others--and continued to compose challenging genre-bending works into the 21st century.
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Carla Bley | Gary Burton, Michael Mantler, Steve Swallow, Jack Bruce, Golden Palominos, Glen Moore, Andy Sheppard, Howard Tate, John Mclaughlin | | Steve Swallow | Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Jimmy Giuffre, Kip Hanrahan, John Scofield, Stan Getz, Steve Kuhn, Pat Metheny | | Andy Sheppard | John Martyn, Baluji Shrivastav, Acoustic Alchemy, Basia, Barbara Dennerlein, Mandy Moore, Steve Swallow, Sylvain Sylvain | | Gary Valente | George Gruntz, Chico O'Farrill, Lester Bowie, Charlie Haden, Joe Mulholland Sextet, Sara Lee, Arturo O'Farrill, Story, Howard Tate |
Contemporaries
Charles Mingus, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry (Trumpet), Paul Bley, Robert Wyatt, Charlie Haden, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Steve Lacy, Yoko Ono, Peter Brötzmann, Pauline Oliveros, George Russell, Michael Mantler, Steve Swallow (1~Jazz Bassist), Roswell Rudd, Patty Waters, Either/Orchestra, Microscopic Septet, Jazz Passengers, Annette Peacock
Followers
Laurie Anderson (Performance Artist), Diamanda Galás, The Lounge Lizards (US), Zeena Parkins, Steve Swallow (1~Jazz Bassist), Jazz Passengers, Andrea Parker
Influences
The Beatles, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Gil Evans, Don Cherry (Trumpet), Kurt Weill, Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Erik Satie, Charles Ives
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