Renowned jazz pianist and composer Carla Bley has died aged 87. Bley passed away of complications from brain cancer at her home in Willow, New York, her longtime partner and collaborator Steve Swallow ...

Jazz master Carla Bley wrote hundreds of compositions — some of which are now considered standards. She died this week in New York of complications from brain cancer, her husband said. She was 87. The ...

Bley, who died Oct. 17, led her own large and small touring bands from the 1970s until a few years ago — but jazz musicians had been playing her enigmatic compositions long before that. This is FRESH ...

Composer and pianist Carla Bley is generally associated with the avant-garde or free jazz movement. This might only be due to the process of elimination, as her music doesn’t sound like bebop, swing, ...

The Mothers Day broadcast includes new releases from Win Pongsakorn, Nicki Parrott, Brenda Earle Stokes, Yelena Eckemoff, Luke Sellick & Andrew Renfroe, Meg Okura, Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine ...

When word comes through about an interview with Carla Bley, ahead of her appearance in the Perspectives series at the National Concert Hall, it comes via an email from her “agent”, a certain Stephen W ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. At 80 years of age, jazz composer Carla Bley sees no reason to stop doing what she loves, but in a creative first, she's written an ...

Carla's Christmas Carols? For many, the idea of their favorite jazz artist releasing an album of seasonal songs usually smells of crass commercialism or pure pandering, but leave it to ...

This is FRESH AIR. Composer Carla Bley died in October at the age of 87. She led her own large and small touring bands from the 1970s until a few years ago, but jazz musicians had been playing her ...