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Carla Bley and "The Lost Chords" hit the road in September |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Tuesday, 16 August 2005 |
 Carla Bley is keeping Steve Swallow, Andy Sheppard and Billy
Drummond busy in September on a whirl-wind tour starting at the Iridium
in New York, then sweeping trhough the west to hit the Jazz Bakery,
Yoshi's, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and Jazz Alley.
Carla Bley, (born May 11, 1938 in Oakland, California) is an
American jazz composer, pianist and band leader. An important figure in
post bebop jazz, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera The
Escalator Over the Hill (released as a triple LP set). Bley's latest,
"THE LOST CHORDS", was written expressly for the talents of Carla Bley,
Steve Swallow, Andy Sheppard and Billy Drummond.
Carla Bley's father, a piano teacher and church choirmaster, encouraged
her to sing and to learn to play the piano. 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 the jazz pianist Paul Bley, whom she married in 1957. He
encouraged her to start composing. The two later divorced, though he
continued to play her compositions, as did Jimmy Giuffre, George
Russell and Art Farmer.
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. Carla Bley co-led the Jazz Composers' Orchestra with
Michael Mantler.
She has collaborated with a number of other artists, including Robert
Wyatt and Nick Mason, whose 1981 solo album Fictitious Sports was a
Carla Bley album in all but name. She arranged and composed music for
Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, and wrote A Genuine Tong
Funeral for Gary Burton. She has frequently worked with her partner,
the bassist Steve Swallow. Her arrangement of the music for Federico
Fellini's 8½ appeared on Hal Willner's Nino Rota tribute record,
Amarcord Nino Rota.
Her latest work, THE LOST CHORDS, was written expressly for the talents
of Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Andy Sheppard and Billy Drummond; a
superb quartet that Carla has indoctrinated in the Bley method of
extraordinary and superlative jazz expression. This quartet will now
undertake their 2004-2005 world tour under the banner CARLA BLEY THE
LOST CHORDS.
CARLA BLEY THE LOST CHORDS Tour Dates
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09/01/2005
through 9/04/2005 |
Iridium
New York NY
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09/06/2005 trhough 9/10/2005
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Jazz Bakery
Los Angeles
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09/11/2005
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Jazz on the River
Guerneville CA
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09/13/2005 and
9/14/2005 |
Yoshi's
Oakland CA
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09/15/2005
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Nuerosciences
Institute
San Diego CA
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09/16/2005 and
9/17/2005 |
Monterey Jazz
Festival (with big band on the 17th)
Monterey CA
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09/20/2005 and
9/21/2005 |
Jazz Alley
Seattle WA
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 Saturday, 11 October 2008
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