The great achievement of the cigarette girl

Better it would Hollywood also can not tell. The way in which Carla Bley came to jazz could come from a cheesy script from the dream factory. In the summer of 1956, she was walking in the New York jazz club Birdland aged 18 years with a very short skirt and a small box in front of the abdomen between the rows of the audience along to every night to sell cigarettes. The young pianist Paul Bley liked the young lady, he took it easy with and led them that were previously only piano in Navy clubs played at the jazz approach. Thankfully, we can say. Carla thanked namely 15 years later in 1971 the world with their epochal work "Escalator Over The Hill". Already, the ensemble provides an illustrious circle of musical All-Stars are: Linda Ronstadt, Sheila Jordan and Jack Bruce brought their voices for the intonation of very erratic text of the libretto by poet Paul Haines one. To this end, Don Cherry, John McLaughlin, Charlie Haden, Gato Barbieri and Bob Stewart gave glory to the respective instruments. Three and a half years in the making devoured these Chronotransduction is referred to as the work on the cover. A new genre seen at the end of this process the light of day: the jazz rock opera. Bley can gently and peacefully flow into a great morbid and inclined Collage each other in this avant-garde pandemonium of sounds Weill and Gershwin. The plant, with its many styles is also an image of the former musical zeitgeist. Indian-inspired stoner sounds and other world musical improvisation routes will share the jazzy instrumentals, and country songs, experimental psychedelic rock and continuously improved a la Satie. Pieces of an extraordinary exceptional quality are the long finale "... and it's again", "AIR" and the "Rawalpindi Blues". From the critics celebrated the work the former cigarette girl moved into the spotlight and brought her comparisons with Gil Evans a and Duke Ellington.