Carla Bley
USA
Born: 11 May 1938
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Experimental Big Band, Avant-Garde Jazz, Big Band/Swing, Modern Creative, Progressive Jazz
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Post-bop jazz has produced only a few first-rate composers of larger forms; Carla Bley ranks high among them. Bley possesses an unusually wide compositional range; she combines an acquaintance with and love for jazz in all its forms with great talent and originality. Her music is a peculiarly individual type of hyper-modern jazz. Bley is capable of writing music of great drama and profound humor, often within the confines of the same piece. As an instrumentalist, Bley makes a fine composer; she plays piano and/or organ with most of her bands, a...
See also
- Steven Bernstein (4)
- Brad Shepik (1)
Similar artists
- Steve Swallow (29)
- Charles Mingus (18)
- Michael Mantler (9)
- Microscopic Septet (2)
- Annette Peacock (1)
Influenced by
- Miles Davis (279)
- Beatles (252)
- Duke Ellington (169)
- Thelonious Monk (94)
- Paul Bley (80)
- Ornette Coleman (47)
- Eric Dolphy (33)
- Don Cherry (23)
- Charles Mingus (18)
- Gil Evans (15)
- Charles Ives (7)
- Erik Satie (4)
- Jimmy Giuffre (4)
- Kurt Weill (0)
Followers
- Charlie Haden (82)
- Dave Holland (55)
- Paul Motian (49)
- Steve Swallow (29)
- Myra Melford (9)
- Emily Haines (5)
- Karen Mantler (2)
- Annette Peacock (1)
- Kip Hanrahan (1)
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