Carla Bley
Carla Bley (1936-2023) was an American composer, pianist, organist and bandleader, born Lovella May Borg in Oakland, California. From the early 1960s her tunes were recorded by Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre and George Russell, before she led her own bands. Among her works is Escalator over the Hill, the three-LP jazz opera written with poet Paul Haines and recorded with the Jazz Composer's Orchestra between 1968 and 1971.
