Carla Bley, the pianist behind some of the most beloved compositions in the jazz canon, who recorded over two dozen albums between 1966 and 2019, died Tuesday. Her death was confirmed by her husband ...

Carla Bley, an irrepressibly original composer, arranger and pianist responsible for more than 60 years of wily provocations in and around jazz, died Tuesday at her home in Willow, a hamlet in upstate ...

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 ...

La música estadounidense Carla Bley, maestra del jazz libre, ha fallecido a los 87 años por las complicaciones derivadas de un tumor cerebral, informó este martes su pareja, el bajista Steve Swallow, ...

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 ...

Composer and pianist Carla Bley is generally associated with the avant-garde or free jazz movement. This might only be due to the process of elimination, as her music doesn’t sound like bebop, swing, ...

Bley's pieces could be ethereally beautiful or subversively brash, but always found a grandeur without tilting into pretension. Carla Bley, the pianist behind some of the most beloved compositions in ...

This is FRESH AIR. Composer Carla Bley died in October at the age of 87. She led her own large and small touring bands from the 1970s until a few years ago, but jazz musicians had been playing her ...