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Karen Mantler
Karen Mantler
American jazz musician
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Michael Mantler
Michael Mantler
Austrian musician
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Paul Bley
Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist
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Steve Swallow
Steve Swallow
jazz bassist and composer
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Jazz Composer's Orchestra
Jazz Composer's Orchestra
American jazz group
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Sharon Freeman
Sharon Freeman
American musician
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Jimmy Giuffre
Jimmy Giuffre
American clarinet and saxophone player
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Gato Barbieri
Gato Barbieri
Argentine jazz musician
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Jeanne Lee
Jeanne Lee
American singer
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Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
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Paul Motian
Paul Motian
American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer
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Julian Argüelles
Julian Argüelles
British musician
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Makanda Ken McIntyre
Makanda Ken McIntyre
American jazz musician and composer
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Roswell Rudd
Roswell Rudd
American trombonist
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Don Cherry
Don Cherry
American jazz trumpeter
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Wolfgang Puschnig
Wolfgang Puschnig
Austrian saxophonist
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Don Preston
Don Preston
American musician
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Enrico Rava
Enrico Rava
Italian trumpeter
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Tina Marsh
Tina Marsh
American singer
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John Scofield
John Scofield
American jazz guitarist and composer
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Dave Douglas
Dave Douglas
American jazz trumpeter
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Andy Sheppard
Andy Sheppard
English musician
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Ron McClure
Ron McClure
American jazz bassist
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Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist
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Sheila Jordan
Sheila Jordan
American jazz singer
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Annette Peacock
Annette Peacock
American Jazz composer
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Arturo O'Farrill
Arturo O'Farrill
Cuban-American musician
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Old and New Dreams
Old and New Dreams
band that plays jazz
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Steve Slagle
Steve Slagle
American musician
Carla Bley
American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader

Carla Bley

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American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader
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Member of, past and present
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Carla Bley (born Lovella May Borg, May 11, 1936) is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader. An important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator over the Hill (released as a triple LP set), as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Art Farmer, John Scofield and her ex-husband Paul Bley.