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
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...
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