In the center column, slightly south, you will find the latest Rifftides recommendations in Doug's Picks. We suggest two new CDs, an imperishable 50-year-old recording, a DVD of a blistering big band ...

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 ...

Our guest this hour was an American band leader, a piano player and arranger, but she would have liked you to know her as someone who wrote music. The late Carla Bley was one of the jazz world’s most ...

Bley died at her home in Willow, New York, The New York Times reported. Her longtime partner, bassist Steve Swallow, told the newspaper that the cause of death was complications of brain cancer. Bley ...

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 ...

Renowned jazz composer and pianist Carla Bley has recorded albums with her own big band and arranged and written music for Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, so it’s not surprising that when ...

Carla Bley, a pianist, composer and arranger who carved out her own niche in avant-garde jazz, creating a singular musical style that was both daring and distinctly tender, died on October 17. She was ...

Carla Bley is legendary as not only a pianist and bandleader who’s played with everyone under the sun, but also as a composer and arranger for bands ranging from duos to big bands and orchestras.

Carla Bley, a relentlessly inventive composer, arranger, pianist and bandleader whose work assimilated the 1960s avant-garde as well as traditional elements of melody and harmony, helping to shape the ...