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Carla Bley: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

John L. Walters, The Guardian, 19 November 2009

AT FIRST GLANCE, Carla Bley's current band, the Lost Chords, look like just another jazz quartet. Then you listen to what they play, and realise that Bley's compositions are like nothing else on the planet: full of irony, mystery, colour, melody, harmony and grooves.

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