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Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley

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All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today!

Carla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon playing at church functions. But her musical education ended at the age of eight. Her formal education stopped entirely when she dropped out of high school after completing the tenth grade... Read more.

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