Carla Bley
The post-bop musician/composer Carla Bley was born as Carla Borg on May 11, 1938 in Oakland, California as the daughter of a church musician. She moved to New York in 1955 where she began to write songs for her husband Paul Bley and other musicians. In 1964 she formed the Jazz Composers Guilt Orchestra together with her second husband, Michael Mantler. Her 1971 jazz opera “Escalator Over the Hill” made her name. Since then, Bley worked with a number of big bands and also wrote the soundtrack to the 1985 movie “Mortelle Randone”.
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Carla Bley
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