Carla Bley Dead: Jazz Composer Was 87
Carla Bley, jazz composer and pianist, died in her home in upstate New York due to complications from brain cancer. She was 87.
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Carla Bley, jazz composer and pianist, died in her home in upstate New York due to complications from brain cancer. She was 87.
Carla Bley's longtime partner announced that she had died at age 87 after battling cancer for five years.
Ms. Bley’s influential body of work included delicate chamber miniatures and rugged, blaring fanfares, with a lot of varied terrain in between.
Bley's pieces could be ethereally beautiful or subversively brash, but always found a grandeur without tilting into pretension.
Musician’s work spanned the mainstream and avant-garde, including in fusions with the world of rock