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Bley has collaborated with a number of other artists, including Jack Bruce, Robert Wyatt and Nick Mason, drummer for the rock group Pink Floyd. She arranged and composed music for bassist Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, and wrote A Genuine Tong Funeral for vibraphonist Gary Burton. Bley and Mantler were pioneers in the development of independent artist-owned record labels and also started the now defunct New Music Distribution Service which specialized in small, independent labels that issued recordings of 'creative improvised music'. With Mantler, she co-led the Jazz Composers' Orchestra and started the JCOA record label which issued a number of historic recordings by Clifford Thornton, Don Cherry and Roswell Rudd, as well as her own magnum opus Escalator Over The Hill and Mantler's The Jazz Composer's Orchestra LPs. Bley and Mantler were married from 1965-91.

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She then had a personal and professional relationship with Michael Mantler, with whom she had a daughter, Karen Mantler, now also a musician in her own right.

In 1964, she was involved in organising the Jazz Composers Guild, which brought together the most innovative musicians in New York at the time.

Throughout her career, Bley has thought of herself as a writer first, describing herself as 99 percent composer and one percent pianist. Carla Bley conducts her band at the Pori Jazz Festival in Pori, Finland, 1978.Ī number of musicians began to record Bley's compositions: George Russell recorded 'Bent Eagle' for his album Stratusphunk in 1960 Jimmy Giuffre recorded 'Ictus' on his album Thesis and Paul Bley's Barrage consisted entirely of her compositions.