# Carla Bley discography

This is a list of works by American jazz musician Carla Bley.

## Albums
### As leader

* 1974: Tropic Appetites (WATT)
* 1977: Dinner Music (WATT)
* 1978: European Tour 1977 (WATT)
* 1979: Musique Mecanique (WATT)
* 1981: Social Studies (WATT)
* 1982: Live! (WATT)
* 1983: Mortelle Randonnée (Mercury) – Soundtrack
* 1984: I Hate to Sing (WATT)
* 1984: Heavy Heart (WATT)
* 1985: Night-Glo (WATT) with Steve Swallow
* 1987: Sextet (WATT)
* 1988: Duets (WATT) with Steve Swallow
* 1989: Fleur Carnivore (WATT)
* 1991: The Very Big Carla Bley Band (WATT)
* 1992: Go Together (WATT) with Steve Swallow
* 1993: Big Band Theory (WATT)
* 1994: Songs with Legs (WATT) with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow
* 1996: The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church (WATT)
* 1998: Fancy Chamber Music (WATT)
* 1999: Are We There Yet? (WATT) with Steve Swallow
* 2000: 4 x 4 (WATT)
* 2003: Looking for America (WATT)
* 2004: The Lost Chords (WATT)
* 2007: The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu (WATT)
* 2008: Appearing Nightly (WATT)
* 2009: Carla's Christmas Carols (WATT)
* 2013: Trios (ECM) with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow
* 2015: Andando el Tiempo (ECM) with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow
* 2020: Life Goes On (ECM) with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow

### Collaborations

With Gary Burton
* 1967: A Genuine Tong Funeral (RCA)
With the Jazz Composer's Orchestra
* 1966: Communication (Fontana) Jazz Composer's Orchestra
* 1968: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA) (led by Michael Mantler)
* 1968-71: Escalator over the Hill (JCOA) (a chronotransduction by Carla Bley & Paul Haines)
* 1973: Relativity Suite (JCOA) (led by Don Cherry)
* 1975: The Gardens of Harlem (JCOA) (led by Clifford Thornton)
* 1975: Echoes of Prayer (JCOA) (led by Grachan Moncur III)
With Michael Mantler
* 1966: Jazz Realities (Fontana) (with Steve Lacy)
* 1973: No Answer (WATT) (with Jack Bruce & Don Cherry – texts by Samuel Beckett)
* 1975: 13 & ¾ (WATT)
* 1976: The Hapless Child (WATT) (texts by Edward Gorey)
* 1976: Silence (WATT) (texts by Harold Pinter)
* 1977: Movies (WATT)
* 1980: More Movies (WATT)
* 1982: Something There (WATT)
With Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra
* 1969: Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse!)
* 1983: The Ballad of the Fallen (ECM)
* 1990: Dream Keeper (Blue Note)
* 2005: Not in Our Name (Verve)
* 2016: Time/Life (Impulse!)
With Nick Mason
* 1979: Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (Harvest) (released in 1981)
With Steve Swallow
* 1986-7: Carla
* 1992: Swallow
* 2013: Into the Woodwork

### As sidewoman

* 1975: Jack Bruce – The Jack Bruce Band Live '75 (released 2003)
* 1975: Jack Bruce – Live on the Old Grey Whistle Test (released 1998)
* 1977: John Greaves – Kew. Rhone.
* 1981: Amarcord Nino Rota (Hannibal) — various artists tribute to Nino Rota (performs "8½")
* 1984: That's the Way I Feel Now (A&M) — various artists tribute to Thelonious Monk (performs "Misterioso")
* 1985: Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill — various artists tribute to Kurt Weill (performs "Lost in the Stars")
* 1971-85: Gary Windo – His Master's Bones
* 1985: The Golden Palominos – Visions of Excess
* 1991: The Golden Palominos – Drunk with Passion
* 1995: Jazz to the World — various artists (performs "Let It Snow")

## Videography

* 1983/2003: Live in Montreal (DVD)

## Compositions recorded by other artists

| Year recorded | Artist | Album | Composition(s) |
| 1957 | Paul Bley | Solemn Meditation | "O Plus One" |
| 1960 | George Russell | George Russell Sextet at the Five Spot | "Dance Class" and "Beast Blues" |
| 1960 | George Russell | Stratusphunk | "Bent Eagle" |
| 1961 | George Russell | George Russell Sextet in K.C. | "Rhymes" |
| 1961 | Jimmy Giuffre | Fusion | "Jesus Maria" and "In the Morning Out There" |
| 1961 | Jimmy Giuffre | Thesis | "Ictus" |
| 1961 | Jimmy Giuffre | Emphasis, Stuttgart 1961 | "Jesus Maria" |
| 1962 | Don Ellis | Essence | "Donkey" aka "Wrong Key Donkey" |
| 1962 | George Russell | The Outer View | "Zig Zag" |
| 1962/63 | Paul Bley | Footloose! | "Floater", "Around Again", "Syndrome", "King Korn" and "Vashkar" |
| 1964 | Paul Bley | Turning Point | "Calls", "King Korn", "Ictus", and "Ida Lupino" |
| 1964 | Paul Bley | Barrage | "Batterie", "Ictus", "And Now the Queen", "Around Again", "Walking Woman", "Barrage" |
| 1965 | Jazz Composer's Orchestra | Communication | "Roast" |
| 1965 | Paul Bley | Touching | "Start" |
| 1965 | Attila Zoller | The Horizon Beyond | "Ictus" |
| 1965 | Art Farmer | Sing Me Softly of the Blues | "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" and "Ad Inifintum" |
| 1965 | Paul Bley | Closer | "Ida Lupino", "Start", "Closer", "Sideways in Mexico", "Batterie", "And Now the Queen" and "Violin" |
| 1965 | Steve Lacy | Disposability | "Generous 1" |
| 1966 | Steve Kuhn Trio | Three Waves | "Ida Lupino" |
| 1967 | Gary Burton | Duster | "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" |
| 1967 | Gary Burton | Lofty Fake Anagram | "Mother of the Dead Man" |
| 1968 | Steve Kuhn | Watch What Happens! | "Ad Infinitum" |
| 1969 | NRBQ | NRBQ | "Ida" |
| 1969 | Phil Woods | At the Montreux Jazz Festival | "Ad Infinitum" |
| 1969 | Tony Williams | Emergency! | "Vashkar" |
| 1972 | Paul Bley | Open, to Love | "Closer", "Ida Lupino" and "Seven" |
| 1972 | Steve Kuhn | Steve Kuhn Live in New York | "Ida Lupino" |
| 1972 | Enrico Rava | Il Giro Del Giorno in 80 Mondi | "Olhos de Gato" |
| 1972 | Paul Bley | Paul Bley & Scorpio | "King Korn", "Syndrome" and "Ictus" |
| 1973 | Paul Bley | Paul Bley/NHØP | "Olhos de Gato" |
| 1974 | Gary Burton | Ring | "Silent Spring" |
| 1974 | Jan Garbarek | Witchi-Tai-To | "A.I.R." |
| 1974 | Jaco Pastorius | Jaco | "Vashkar", "Donkey", "Overtoned", "Batterie" and "King Korn" |
| 1974 | Gary Burton | Hotel Hello | "Vashkar" |
| 1975 | Paul Bley | Alone, Again | "Olhos de Gato" and "And Now the Queen" |
| 1975 | Gary Burton | Dreams So Real | "Dreams So Real", "Ictus/Syndrome", "Jesus Maria", "Vox Humana", "Doctor", "Intermission Music" |
| 1977 | Volker Kriegel | Elastic Menu | "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" |
| 1979 | Morrissey–Mullen | Cape Wrath | "Dreams So Real" |
| 1980 | Gary Burton | Easy as Pie | "Reactionary Tango" |
| 1980 | Gary Burton | Picture This | "Dreams So Real" |
| 1984 | Gary Burton Quartet | Real Life Hits | "Syndrome" and "Real Life Hits" |
| 1985 | Paul Bley | Hot | "Syndrome" and "Around Again" |
| 1986 | Paul Bley | Fragments | "Seven" and "Closer" |
| 1987 | George Russell | So What | "Rhymes" |
| 1987 | Paul Bley and Paul Motian | Notes | "Batterie" |
| 1989 | Paul Bley, Jimmy Guiffre and Steve Swallow | The Life of a Trio: Sunday | "Where Were We?" |
| 1989 | Orchestra Jazz Siciliana | Plays the Music of Carla Bley | "440", "The Lone Arranger", "Dreams So Real", "Baby Baby", "Joyful Noise", "Egyptian", and "Blunt Object" |
| 1989 | Charlie Haden | The Montreal Tapes: with Paul Bley and Paul Motian | "Ida Lupino" |
| 1990 | Leo Kottke | That's What | "Jesus Maria" |
| 1991 | Paul Bley | Paul Plays Carla | "Vashkar", "Floater", "Seven", "Around Again", "Ida Lupino", "Turns", "And Now the Queen", "Ictus", "Olhos de Gato" and "Donkey" |
| 1991 | John Surman | Adventure Playground | "Seven" |
| 1992 | Paul Bley | Homage to Carla | "Seven", "Closer", "Olhos de Gato", "And Now the Queen", "Vashkar", "Around Again", "Donkey", "King Korn", "Ictus", "Turns" and "Overtoned" |
| 1994 | John McLaughlin | After the Rain | "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" |
| 1997 | Steve Kuhn | Sing Me Softly of the Blues | "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" |
| 2000 | Michel Portal | Dockings | "Ida Lupino" |
| 2000 | Mark Turner | Ballad Session | "Jesus Maria" |
| 2001 | Don Preston | Transformation | "Walking Batteriewoman" and "The Donkey" |
| 2001 | Ken Vandermark | Free Jazz Classics Vols. 1 & 2 | "King Korn" and "Calls" in segue |
| 2002 | Bobby Naughton | Zoar | "Vashkar" |
| 2003 | Roberto Ottaviano | Live in Israel | "Ida Lupino" |
| 2004 | Gary Burton | Generations | "Syndrome" |
| 2004 | Leo Kottke | Try and Stop Me | "Jesus Maria" |
| 2004 | Whit Dickey | In a Heartbeat | "Calls" |
| 2004 | Chris Wiesendanger, Christian Weber and Dieter Ulrich | We Concentrate | "Jesus Maria", "Batterie" and "King Korn" |
| 2005 | Arturo O'Farrill | Live in Brooklyn | "Utviklinsang" and "Walking Battery Woman" |
| 2005 | Håkon Kornstad and Håvard Wiik | Eight Tunes We Like | "Calls" |
| 2006 | Howard Tate | Portrait of Howard | "The Lord Is Listenin' to Ya, Hallelujah" |
| 2006 | Håkon Kornstad and Håvard Wiik | The Bad and the Beautiful | "King Korn" |
| 2006 | Dave Palmer | Romance | "Ida Lupino" |
| 2007 | Eberhard Weber | Stages of a Long Journey | "Syndrome" |
| 2007 | Jonas Kullhammar | Andratx | "Ida Lupino" |
| 2008 | Guillaume de Chassy | Faraway So Close | "Ida Lupino" |
| 2008 | Marcin Wasilewski | January | "King Korn" |
| 2009 | Gary Burton | Quartet Live | "Syndrome" |
| 2009 | Emanuele Arciuli | Gates to Everywhere | "Romantic Notions 1-8" |
| 2010 | Cindy Blackman | Another Lifetime | "Vashkar", "Vashkar Reprise" and "Vashkar – The Alternate Dimension Theory" |
| 2010 | Nels Cline Singers | Initiate | "And Now the Queen" |
| 2011 | John Scofield | A Moment's Peace | "Lawns" |
| 2012 | Steve Kuhn | Wisteria | "Permanent Wave" |
| 2013 | Jeff Berlin | Low Standards | "Vashkar" |
| 2013 | Barry Altschul | The 3dom Factor | "Ictus" |
| 2013 | George Schuller | Listen Both Ways | "Jesus Maria" |
| 2015 | Mary Halvorson | Meltframe | "Ida Lupino" |
| 2015 | Rüdiger Krause | A Guitar Named Carla | "Like Animals", "Time and Us", "Real Life Hits", "Ida Lupino", "Musique mecanique III", "Utviklingssang", "Funnybird Song", "Four Banana", "Reactionary Tango", "Escalator Over The Hill" and "Lawns" |
| 2016 | Giovanni Guidi | Ida Lupino | "Ida Lupino" |
| 2018 | Nels Cline 4 | Currents, Constellations | "Temporarliy" |
| 2020 | Marcin Wasilewski | Arctic Riff | "Vashkar" |