Real name, Carla Borg, this great composer, orchestra leader and pianist, musically adopted the surname of her husband, also an excellent pianist, Paul Bley. He learned piano and violin as a child with his father, a piano teacher and obtained extensive experience in musical leadership tasks as directed the choir of the Church in their community. Learned theory and deepened his piano technique while still a teenager before moving to New York in 1955, where she met her husband who was the Canadian pianist Paul Bley.  Encouraged by this, Carla began to compose at the piano of Paul provide an excellent material that changed the concept and the ability to interpret the pianist. Some of his

early compositions were used by multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Giuffre Paul was part of the late sixties. Carla Bley, was a member of the late group "Jazz Composers' Guild formed in 1964 with barely a year old . The group is led Carla, with trumpeter / composer Michael Mantler. By 1967, disenchanted with the path taken by most musicians freejazz representative, he directed his creative energies to music free inspiration: the result was the acclaimed "A Genuine Tong Funeral" commissioned and recorded by Gary Burton, who won a huge success with it in 1967. A stop-off on his work, is the "Escalator Over The Hill", an amalgam musical with lyrics by Paul Hines. It was published in 1973 and won several major prizes. Currently, Carla Bley, remains one of the most important composers and arrangers in modern jazz.