Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor ke… - Carla Bley
When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor ke…
- Carla Bley
When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo. - Carla Bley
When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out. - Carla Bley
I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to lis… - Carla Bley
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to lis…
Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and… - Carla Bley
Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and…
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. - Carla Bley
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that. - Carla Bley
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
What's interesting about a person without problems? - Carla Bley
What's interesting about a person without problems?
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all. - Carla Bley
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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