Carla Bley

b.: May 11, 1936, in Oakland, California d.: October 17, 2023, Willow, New York Carla Bley was born to Swedish parents. Her father, Emil Borg, was a piano teacher and church choirmaster, and he and her mother, Arline Anderson, encouraged her to sing and to learn to play the piano. Her mother, however, died of a heart attack when Bley was eight years old. She was a jazz composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader, a…