Thursday 05.07.18
Kongsberg church

Carla Bley Trio - cancelled!

Carla Bley has been a central figure in international jazz for several decades. She has attracted extra attention with her current trio with Steve Swallow and Andy Sheppard. 

Concert start: 17:00 Single ticket price: NOK 450

NB! The concert with the Carla Bley Trio has unfortunately been cancelled. Do you have a ticket? See important information below:

Here is the official statement from her agent:
 
"Because of an unexpected health issue, we unfortunately have to cancel the summer tour of Carla Bley Trios. According to her doctors, at the moment she is unable to fly and can therefore not play any concerts in Europe. We hope that her health will improve soon enough so that she can come back to Europe. We are very sorry about this cancellation and hope for your understanding. Carla is devastated – she has never had to cancel a show in the past.”
 
NEW CONCERT: CLASHES WITH ERLEND SKOMSVOLL, HÅKON KORNSTAD, IDA LØVLI HIDLE AND ENSEMBLE ALLEGRIA
 
The unique collaboration Clashes will be performed in Kongsberg church at 17.00 instead of the Carla Bley Trio. If you wish to attend this performance instead, you do not need to do anything. The ticket for Carla Bley Trio applies to this one. Read more about Clashes here. 
 
REFUND - DEADLINE 4 JULY
If you do not wish to take advantage of the offer and would rather have your ticket refunded, please contact the Ticketmaster customer center on tel. 22 82 81 97 (Opening hours: Monday-Friday 9-16, Saturday 10-14) Tickets paid by card over the phone or on the Web are refunded back to the card that was charged at the time of purchase. The deadline for refunding the ticket is 4 July 2018. NB ! Unfortunately, Ticketmaster's ticket fees are not refundable.
 
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Carla Bley has had a varied and rich career. She had barely turned 20 when she started playing with central New York musicians. She quickly distinguished herself as a composer, and is behind key works in jazz history such as "A Genuine Tong Funeral", which was recorded by Gary Burton, and "Liberation Music Orchestra" (Charlie Haden). A high point in his career as a composer in the large format was what some call a jazz opera: "Escalator Over The Hill".

Carla Bley has distinguished herself as a composer, arranger and orchestra leader to a greater extent than as an instrumentalist. She has refined the impulses she has taken from Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, The Beatles, Eric Satie and Kurt Weill into a highly appealing and personal expression. She has a unique ability to create catchy, melodic compositions, and many of them have entered the standard jazz repertoire, songs such as Ida Lupino og Sing Me Softly Of The Blues.

In recent years, her main project has been the trio with Andy Shepard and Steve Swallow. In this context, all her melodic and lyrical features come to the fore. The trio has so far released two records. About the last one, Andiando el Tiempo, writes Johan Hauknes on the website salty peanuts*: "After Keith Jarret's Standard trio is history, this is the very best of intuitive communication and joint creation of music that we have in international jazz at this level today."

Carla Bley (piano, comp.), Steve Swallow (bass), Andy Sheppard (sax)

Important info:

The doors open at 16:00. Concert start at 17:00. Free age limit. 

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