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Beloved musician succumbs to cancer.
Carla Bley, a luminary in the realm of jazz, has passed away at the age of 87 due to complications from brain cancer.
According to The Guardian, Her death was confirmed by her longtime partner and collaborator, Steve Swallow. Bley’s career was a tapestry of innovation, spanning from mainstream jazz to avant-garde compositions.
Born as Lovella May Borg in 1936 in Oakland, California, Bley was introduced to the piano at the tender age of three. She left school at 14 and began her musical journey playing piano in Bay Area jazz clubs. At 17, she moved to New York and took a job at the iconic jazz club Birdland, where she was more engrossed in the music than her job as a cigarette girl.
Watch Carla Bley perform in the video below