NEC Jazz Orchestra | Dreamkeeper, Music of Carla Bley
Jordan Hall


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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.