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Carla Bley – piano
Andy Sheppard - tenor and soprano saxophone
Steve Swallow - Double Bass
American pianist and songwriter Carla Bley is one of the true free thinkers of jazz. Mostly self-taught, influenced by songs as diverse as classical and tango, she has built a fascinating career and a unique and recognizable style.
Her reputation rests largely on her work as a composer, in a universe dominated by instrumentalists. It began as a "cigarette girl" at the Birdland Jazz Club to later claim to be one of the greatest free jazz figures of the 1960s.
During this period, numerous musicians record compositions of her: George Russell, Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, among others.
With her second husband, musician Michael Mantler, she led the Jazz Composer's Orchestra Association and began publishing JCOA, which edited a series of historical records, recorded by Clifford Thornton, Don Cherry and Roswell Rudd.
Among them, the theatrical and surrealist jazz opera "Escalator over the hill" (1972), in which Carla Bley worked for 5 years before the release and which is considered by many as her greatest work.
She was a songwriter and made arrangements for Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and wrote to Gary Burton the work "A genuine tong funeral".
With an extensive discography covering a number of publishers and bands, her last work of 2016, edited by ECM, was considered by the magazine "Down Beat" as a masterpiece. "Walking the tempo," with Andy Sheppard on the saxophone and Steve Swallow on the double bass will surely serve as the basis for the concert at Seixal Jazz.
Andy Sheppard - tenor and soprano saxophone
Steve Swallow - Double Bass
American pianist and songwriter Carla Bley is one of the true free thinkers of jazz. Mostly self-taught, influenced by songs as diverse as classical and tango, she has built a fascinating career and a unique and recognizable style.
Her reputation rests largely on her work as a composer, in a universe dominated by instrumentalists. It began as a "cigarette girl" at the Birdland Jazz Club to later claim to be one of the greatest free jazz figures of the 1960s.
During this period, numerous musicians record compositions of her: George Russell, Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, among others.
With her second husband, musician Michael Mantler, she led the Jazz Composer's Orchestra Association and began publishing JCOA, which edited a series of historical records, recorded by Clifford Thornton, Don Cherry and Roswell Rudd.
Among them, the theatrical and surrealist jazz opera "Escalator over the hill" (1972), in which Carla Bley worked for 5 years before the release and which is considered by many as her greatest work.
She was a songwriter and made arrangements for Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and wrote to Gary Burton the work "A genuine tong funeral".
With an extensive discography covering a number of publishers and bands, her last work of 2016, edited by ECM, was considered by the magazine "Down Beat" as a masterpiece. "Walking the tempo," with Andy Sheppard on the saxophone and Steve Swallow on the double bass will surely serve as the basis for the concert at Seixal Jazz.
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MUNÍCIPIO DO SEIXAL