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Carla Bley

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Michael Mantler: No Answer; Carla Bley: Tropic Appetites (Watt)

Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, February 1975

THE TAYLOR-Burton of the avant-garde music set have formed their own record label and on their first two offerings we find Mike taking on that ...

Carla Bley: Arrangements for the Death Dance

Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 26 April 1975

The socio-musical thoughts of Carla Bley ...

Bruce and Taylor's Band of Misfits

Interview by Barbara Charone, Rolling Stone, 17 July 1975

LONDON – "I had three choices: give up completely, find a backing group to play my songs mechanically, or become a sideman playing bass in ...

The Carla Bley Band: Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI

Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Michigan State News, 16 January 1978

Bley makes American debut ...

Carla Bley Band: Camden Jazz Week, the Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 7 November 1981

PERCHED AT the organ and squinting through her big spectacles at the music, Carla Bley faced the horn players in her group like some loopy ...

Golden Palominos: The Ritz, New York NY

Live Review by Jeff Tamarkin, Creem, May 1986

Horse Platitudes ...

Carla Bley Looks for America

Interview by Phil Mershon, Perfect Sound Forever, August 2003

THIS IS A TIME when global corporatism links a grotesque preponderance of its steel-eyed vision to the silly notion that anything produced by, for, or ...

Carla Bley: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

Live Review by 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 ...

Bob Dylan: Christmas In The Heart/Carla Bley: Carla's Christmas Carols/John Cowan: Comfort & Joy

Review by Geoffrey Himes, Nashville Scene, 3 December 2009

Bob Dylan's latest follows the tradition of the weird Christmas album ...

Liberation Music Orchestra: Cadogan Hall, London

Live Review by John L. Walters, London Jazz News, 21 November 2016

CHARLIE'S LIBERATION MUSIC Orchestra was a product of the cultural moment outlined in the Victoria & Albert Museum's current exhibition You Say You Want a ...

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