Carla Bley Trios (w/ Andy Sheppard & Steve Swallow)

Carla Bley, è una compositrice, pianista e organista statunitense di musica jazz. Bley ha collaborato con tantissimi artisti tra cui Jack Bruce , Robert Wyatt e il batterista dei Pink Floyd Nick Mason. Ha arrangiato e composto musica per la Liberation Music Orchestra di Charlie Haden e ha scritto A Genuine Tong Funeral per Gary Burton. Il suo arrangiamento della colonna sonora per l' 8½ di Federico Fellini è apparso sul disco tributo di Hal Willner Nino Rota: Amarcord Nino Rota . Ha contribuito ad altri progetti di Willner, inclusa la canzone "Misterioso" per l'omaggio a Thelonious Monk intitolato That's Way Way Feel Now , che comprendeva Johnny Griffin per il sassofono tenore e il tributo diretto da Willner a Kurt Weill , intitolato Lost in the Stars. , dove lei e la sua band hanno contribuito con un arrangiamento della title track, con Phil Woods al sassofono contralto. Alla fine degli anni '80, ha anche suonato con i Golden Palominos di Anton Fier e ha suonato nel loro album del 1985, Visions of Excess. Con lei live lo straordinario compositore e sassofonista britannico ANDY SHEPPARD & STEVE SWALLOW bassista, contrabbassista e compositore statunitense.

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Bley has collaborated with a number of other artists, including Jack Bruce, Robert Wyatt and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, whose 1981 solo album Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports was a Carla Bley album in all but name. She arranged and composed music for Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, and wrote A Genuine Tong Funeral for Gary Burton. Her arrangement of the score for Federico Fellini's 8½ appeared on Hal Willner's Nino Rota tribute record, Amarcord Nino Rota. She contributed to other Willner projects, including the song "Misterioso" for the tribute to Thelonious Monk entitled That's the Way I Feel Now, which included Johnny Griffin on tenor saxophone, and the Willner-directed tribute to Kurt Weill, entitled Lost in the Stars, where she and her band contributed an arrangement of the title track, with Phil Woods on alto saxophone. In the late 1980s, she also performed with Anton Fier's Golden Palominos and played on their 1985 album, Visions of Excess.
With her ANDY SHEPPARD & STEVE SWALLOW. Andy is a British jazz saxophonist and composer. He has been awarded several prizes at the British Jazz Awards, and has worked with some notable figures in contemporary jazz. Steve is a american jazz bassist and composer.