"I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano." Now 84 years later, #CarlaBley is still playing the piano and doing so much as we celebrate her 87th birthday today. She moved to New York at age 17, working as a cigarette girl at the original Birdland, where she met pianist Paul Bley, whom she married in 1957. Immersed in the city’s jazz scene, she began to write compositions, which Pa

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