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Andi Chorley

Ended the weekend and greeted the week after a swim with Life Goes On by Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow, released on ECM in 2020

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

"For its third ECM outing, pianist Carla Bley’s trio with saxophonist Andy Sheppard and bassist Steve Swallow mixes up an antidote for these times of uncertainty and quarantine. The title suite is the first of three comprising the program. Given that “Life Goes On” came out of a recent brush with illness, it’s fitting that Bley should begin in the dark whimsy of the blues. Her left hand plows fertile soil before leaving Sheppard and Swallow to sow their thematic crop. Years of experience and collaboration funnel into Swallow’s intimate rapport with Bley and into Sheppard’s unforced, spiritual playing. The latter, whether breathing through tenor or soprano, takes two steps forward for every retreat.."

ecmreviews.com/2020/05/02/bley

youtube.com/watch?v=tz0_l3maHG

Life Goes On by Carla Bley LP cover.
#carlabley#andysheppard#steveswallow
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Grands Formats

L’Orchestre National de Jazz dévoilera "With Carla", sa première création sous la direction artistique de Sylvaine Hélary, le 4 juin au Festival @jazzdor ! 💥

Ce programme inaugural imaginé avec la complicité du saxophoniste et compositeur Rémi Sciuto, propose une singulière et réjouissante traversée de l’œuvre de la compositrice américaine et grande figure du jazz, Carla Bley.

→ Infos : onj.org/programme/with-clara/

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#carlabley#jazz#creation
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TheRealJG

RIP Carla Bley part II

Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports
(1981, Columbia)

It wasn't until reading Carla Bley's bio after she died October 17th that I learned she composed, arranged, produced, and performed on Pink Floyd's Nick Mason's debut solo album. Fictitious Sports is essentially a Carla Bley album with the addiction of Mason on drums and the Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt on lead vocals, and Chris Spending on guitar. It is a strange and wonderful recording. Given the era, I'll take this over The Wall or Final Cut any day. I don't know if this is the debut that Mason was hoping for but he should be ecstatic for a bold, quirky and challenging, yet thoroughly engaging musical statement.
#vinyl #NowSpinning #carlabley

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Andy Hunter

I'm thinking about the great Carla Bley and how much I love this record. All the music on it is great but I especially like the inclusion of the nagging, ominous ostinatio pattern from I Want You (she's so heavy). It works so well in Bley's composition that I spent weeks trying to place it, looking through the classical canon and never thinking of the Beatles. Like so many greats, Bley could make her hard work appear effortless. #CarlaBley #jazz #music

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Andy Hunter

Very sad to hear the news of Carla Bley's death at the age of 87. A pianist and composer of rare talent and humility, she leaves a huge body of work. The last records for ECM with Steve Swallow, her partner, and Andy Sheppard are the sound of three mature musicians completely at ease with themselves and their music, but don't be deceived; she spent many years at the sharp end of the avante garde. Thanks, Carla. Rest well. #CarlaBley #jazz #music

allaboutjazz.com/remembering-c

All About Jazz · Remembering Carla Bley: Jazz Innovator ExtraordinaireRemembering Carla Bley: Jazz Innovator Extraordinaire article by Ian Patterson, published on October 25, 2023 at All About Jazz. Find more Profile articles
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Jesse Farrell

The #Guardian obit: theguardian.com/music/2023/oct

[an aside: what the obits I've seen don't get is that Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports was a stealth Bley album, and on a major label yet -- the Bley Band book, but with a celebrity guest vocalist and a celebrity drummer. I was working as a college-radio DJ when it was released, and when I sat in our record library and read the credits, I laughed for a minute, and said, "Well played, Carla...."]

#jazz #rock #CarlaBley

The Guardian · Carla Bley, imaginative jazz pianist and composer, dies aged 87By Ben Beaumont-Thomas
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Jesse Farrell

[with links to Ethan Iverson's previous #CarlaBley pieces, for The New Yorker and otherwise, and to Nate Chinen's #NYT obit.]

We've lost one of the 20th century's greatest composers: open.substack.com/pub/iverson/

When I was a kid, just learning that jazz was not just my parents' music, Carla Bley was my Duke Ellington (see her insights on Lew Soloff and Ornette's early bassists Haden and LaFaro), and more -- I treasured my yearly New Music Distribution Service catalog, and, once I had disposable cash, began ordering LPs from it, albums that, much like her own, were wonderful respites from the Corporate Jazz of the day, and products of the October Revolution that she helped ignite.

Transitional Technology · TT 314: Carla BleyBy ETHAN IVERSON
#jazz#rock
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