Carla Bley's longtime partner announced that she had died at age 87 after battling cancer for five years.
of Carla Bley. On Tuesday, Bley’s longtime partner and musical collaborator Steve Swallow announced that the jazz musician died at the age of 87 due to complications with brain cancer.
Bley was diagnosed with brain cancer back in 2018. “Sometimes I don’t know the answer to a question, so I think they must have taken something out by mistake, because ever since the operation I no longer have perfect pitch,” she said at the time, per Bley was born Lovella May Borg in Oakland, California in 1936, where she learned to play the piano at the age of three. She later moved to New York in the Fifties where she started off as a vendor at the Birdland jazz club. There, she met and married jazz pianist Paul Bley, with whom she toured for years and composed original works.
“I was the one who took a picture of you and your girlfriend at the table to commemorate your being there with someone who wasn’t your wife usually,” Bley once said, perIn New York, she became a key figure in the city’s free jazz scene, joining the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra and its Guild..” Writer Gavin Edward described the project as a jazz-rock opera that included vocals from musicians like Jack Bruce, John McLaughlin, and Linda Ronstadt.
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