He has recorded tunes by Tom T. Hall, Johnny Cash, Carla Bley, Fleetwood Mac, The Byrds, Jorma Kaukonen, Kris Kristofferson, Randall Hylton, and many others.

He has also worked with the jazz composers Carla Bley and Gil Evans.

He has toured with the Carla Bley Band and The Prime Movers ( which included Iggy Pop and Michael Erlewine ) as well as Iggy & The Stooges ( in 1973 ).

Chadbourne has worked with numerous artists including John Zorn, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Carla Bley Band, Paul Lovens, Toshinori Kondo, Kommissar Hjuler und Frau, Camper Van Beethoven, Jello Biafra, Turbonegro, They Might Be Giants, Sun City Girls, Violent Femmes, Aki Takase, Walter Daniels, Kevin Blechdom, Biff Blumfumgagnge, Zu and Jimmy Carl Black.

Bley and Mantler followed with WATT Records, which has issued their recordings exclusively since the early 1970s.

Carla Bley has continued to record frequently with her own Big band, which included Blood, Sweat and Tears notable Lew Soloff, and a number of smaller ensembles, notably The Lost Chords.

In addition to recording as a bandleader, he has recorded and / or performed with musicians such as David Murray, Irène Schweizer, Marilyn Crispell, Carla Bley, Butch Morris and Reggie Workman among others.

He has been active in Free Jazz circles, recording with Carla Bley, Don Cherry, Lee Konitz, John McLaughlin, Hōzan Yamamoto, Dave Holland, Gunther Schuller, the Mingus Epitaph Orchestra, Sam Rivers, Pharoah Sanders, Globe Unity Orchestra and many others.

Burton has played with a variety of jazz musicians, including Carla Bley, Hank Garland, Gato Barbieri, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Steve Lacy, Pat Metheny, Makoto Ozone, Adam Nussbaum, Tiger Okoshi, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, B. B.

He has recorded or performed with John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Elliott Sharp, Danny Barnes, Tucker Martine, Butch Morris, Fred Frith, Julian Priester, Phillip Wilson, Michael Shrieve, Carla Bley, Timothy Young, Bobby Previte, Skerik, Douglas September and others.

Bley has been a long-time resident of the United States.

Bley has continued to tour internationally and record prodigiously, with well over a hundred CDs released.

In 1976, jazz composer Michael Mantler recorded an album called The Hapless Child ( Watt / ECM ) with Robert Wyatt, Terje Rypdal, Carla Bley and Jack DeJohnette.

The Jimmy Giuffre Trio ( with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow ) received little attention during their original incarnation from 1960 – 62, but afterwards were regarded as one of the most innovative free jazz ensembles.

The 1981 documentary film Imagine the Sound explores free jazz through interviews with and performances by Archie Shepp, Paul Bley, Cecil Taylor and Bill Dixon.

Cherry became well known in 1958 when he performed and recorded with Ornette Coleman, first in a quintet with pianist Paul Bley and later in what became the predominantly piano-less quartet which recorded for Atlantic Records.

Many New York jazz performers during this period played fusions of jazz with rock and other styles ; among the earliest of these modern musicians was Carla Bley, cofounder of the Jazz Composers Orchestra Association, an independent distribution company for avant-garde and jazz artists.

His reputation as a " first-call " session player grew, resulting in recordings as a sideman with Miroslav Vitous, Larry Coryell, Joe Farrell, Wayne Shorter, Carla Bley, the Rolling Stones, and others.

* 1989: Charlie Haden-The Montreal Tapes: with Paul Bley and Paul Motian (" Ida Lupino ")

* Carla Bley in conversation with Frank J. Oteri

His first recordings were made that year with Paul Bley.

* The Montreal Tapes: with Paul Bley and Paul Motian ( Verve, 1989 )

* A Genuine Tong Funeral ( RCA, 1968 ) with Carla Bley

He was one of four featured musicians in the Canadian documentary Imagine the Sound ( along with Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, and Paul Bley ), 1981.

One of the leading bassists in jazz, Swallow is noted for collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton and Carla Bley.

In 1960 he left Yale, where he was studying composition, and settled in New York City, playing at the time in Jimmy Giuffre's trio along with Paul Bley.

An important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill ( released as a triple LP set ), as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Art Farmer and her ex-husband Paul Bley.

During the 1970s, Bley, in partnership with videographer Carol Goss, was responsible for an important multi-media initiative, Improvising Artists which issued LPs and videos documenting the solo piano recordings by Sun Ra and other works of free jazz with Jimmy Giuffre, Lee Konitz, Gary Peacock, Lester Bowie, John Gilmore, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Steve Lacy and others.

Jazz pianist Paul Bley is also a resident of the small town, as is artist / writer Jack Walls, artists Richard Saba and Mark Mastroianni, film maker James Rasin, and National Book Award nominated novelist Dana Spiotta.

Bley and Goss are credited in a Billboard Magazine cover story with the first " music video " as a result of the recorded and live performance collaborations they produced with jazz musicians and video artists.

In his more than twenty-year career, Kirkland worked, performed or recorded with such artists as Don Alias, Bob Berg, Art Blakey, Carla Bley, Donald Byrd, Kenny Burrell, Terence Blanchard, Michael Brecker, Tony Bunn, Gary Burton, Ron Carter, Lonnie Cavers, Stanley Clarke, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Urszula Dudziak, George Duke, Cornell Dupree, Kevin Eubanks, Gil Evans, Charles Fambrough, Sonny Fortune, Frank Foster and the Loud Minority, Chico Freeman, Steve Gadd, Kenny Garrett, Dizzy Gillespie, Mark Gray, Abdullah Ibrahim ( Dollar Brand ), Elvin Jones, Stanley Jordan, Rodney Jones, Pat LaBarbera, Hubert Laws, Mike Manieri, Cecil McBee, Jr., Marcus Miller, Bob Mintzer, Thelonious (' T. M.

continued to issue notable recordings, including the debut album by the Liberation Music Orchestra, the first of four acclaimed collaborations between bassist Charlie Haden and composer-arranger Carla Bley.

Nonetheless, several notables made their first recordings as bandleaders for Debut, including pianist Paul Bley, and trumpeters Kenny Dorham and Thad Jones.

* Amarcord Nino Rota ( 1981 ) Willner's first tribute album salutes Italian composer Nino Rota, and features interpretation of his music for Federico Fellini films by jazz and pop musicians including: Wynton and Branford Marsalis ; Carla Bley ; Muhal Richard Abrams ; Bill Frisell ; Steve Lacy ; Jaki Byard ; and Deborah Harry

Artists who contributed to this series are Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Bill Frisell, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Terje Rypdal, Bobo Stenson, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Egberto Gismonti, Jack DeJohnette, John Surman, John Abercrombie, Carla Bley, Paul Motian, Tomasz Stanko, Eberhard Weber, Arild Andersen, Jon Christensen.

Paul would often make cassettes of rare and eclectic music for his daughter to listen to, and her early influences included Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt.

Between 1957 and 1968 he played with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Slide Hampton, the John Coltrane Quartet, Marian McPartland, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, Mose Allison, Charles Lloyd, Paul Bley, and Steve Kühn, among others, as well as leading his own group and working as the house drummer at the Jazz Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bley was featured in the 1981 documentary film Imagine the Sound, in which he performs and discusses the history of his music.

Lupino is the titular subject of a jazz homage composed by Carla Bley in 1964, originally for the album Turning Point.

Largely arranged by Carla Bley, their music was very experimental, exploring the realms of free jazz and political music at the same time ; the first album focused specifically on the Spanish Civil War.

* The 2007 album The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu by jazz musician Carla Bley includes the track " Death of Superman / Dream Sequence No. 1: Flying ".

Jazz in the Space Age ( 1960 ) was an even more ambitious big band album, featuring the unusual dual piano voicings of Bill Evans and Paul Bley.

* Time Will Tell ( Paul Bley album ) ( 1994 )

In 1953 he conducted for Charles Mingus on the Charles Mingus and his Orchestra album and the same year Mingus produced the Introducing Paul Bley album with Mingus and Art Blakey.

During the same period Bley was touring and recording with Sonny Rollins, which culminated with the RCA Victor album, Sonny Meets Hawk!

* Notes ( album ), a 1987 album by Paul Bley and Paul Motian

* Jaco ( album ), the unofficial title of the Pastorius / Metheny / Ditmas / Bley album

Three years later, in 1986, he recorded his fifth album as leader, " The Nightbathers " with pianist Paul Bley and guitarist John Abercrombie, which was an experiment in free improvisation.

The album was also notable for its personnel, which included celebrated New York jazz musicians Carla Bley, Michael Mantler, and Andrew Cyrille among the performers.

Paul Bley / NHØP is a jazz duet album by Paul Bley and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, released on SteepleChase Records in 1973.