Original flyer for a performance by the Carla Bley Band at the New Yorker Theatre in Toronto, circa 1970s

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Vintage flyer for a performance by the Carla Bley Band on Sunday, January 15, at the New Yorker Theatre in Toronto.

Oakland-born Bley hitchhiked to New York at seventeen, becoming involved with the jazz and blues scene of the 1950s while working as a cigarette girl at Birdland. In 1964 she helped organize the Jazz Composers Guild, and later co-founded the Jazz Composers' Orchestra record label with her then-husband Michael Mantler, a label which became a pioneering force for independent, avant-garde music and issued a number of historic recordings by Clifford Thornton, Don Cherry, and Roswell Rudd, as well as Bley's own eclectic magnum opus, "Escalator over the Hill." In 1972 Bley received a Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition, and is today considered one of the most important living jazz composers and bandleaders.

8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine.

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