Research Catalog

Title

Carla Bley / Amy C. Beal.

Author

Beal, Amy C.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.

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Details

Description

x, 113 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

American composers

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• American composers

Subject

• Bley, Carla
• Composers > United States > Biography
• Jazz musicians > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biografie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-104) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : "Like a mockingbird" -- Walking woman : Oakland, New York, Los Angeles, New York -- Sing me softly of the blues : early short pieces and songs without words -- Social studies : the the jazz composers guild and the jazz composers orchestra -- "Mad at jazz" : a genuine tong funeral -- Escalator over the hill : jazz opera as fusion -- Copyright royalties : new music distribution service -- Big band theory : The Carla Bley Band and other projects -- The lone arranger : history and hilarity -- End of Vienna : fancy chamber music -- Dreams so real : "Jazz is really where my heart now lies".

ISBN

• 9780252036361 (cloth)
• 0252036360 (cloth)
• 9780252078187 (pbk.)
• 0252078187 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011004562

OCLC

• 700468600
• SCSB-10183934

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library