Performances + Events
NEC Jazz Orchestra | Dreamkeeper, Music of Carla Bley
Jordan Hall
Free - Ticket Required
In-Person Event
Open to the Public
Streaming
Under the direction of Ken Schaphorst, the NEC Jazz Orchestra presents music composed and arranged by Carla Bley, including Awful Coffee. Greasy Gravy, On the Stage in Stages, and Setting Calvin's Waltz.
The live stream of this event is available to NEC Community members only. To watch the stream, please click the “Streaming Access” button at the top of the page and enter the NEC Community streaming password on the video window labeled “NEC-Produced Stream” when prompted.
The live stream of this event is available to NEC Community members only. To watch the stream, please click the “Streaming Access” button at the top of the page and enter the NEC Community streaming password on the video window labeled “NEC-Produced Stream” when prompted.
Artist(s)
Carla Bley (1936-2023) was an American composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader celebrated for her wit, originality, and genre-blurring approach to jazz. Emerging in the 1960s avant-garde scene, she gained prominence as a composer for the Jazz Composers Orchestra and through her ambitious, often satirical works that fused jazz, rock, and classical influences. Her landmark jazz opera Escalator Over the Hill became a cult classic, and she went on to lead innovative big bands and small groups for decades. Bley's music, marked by sharp humor, lyricism, and structural inventiveness, left a lasting imprint on modern jazz composition and performance.
