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Carla Bley Band: Camden Jazz Week, the Roundhouse, London

Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 7 November 1981

PERCHED AT the organ and squinting through her big spectacles at the music, Carla Bley faced the horn players in her group like some loopy schoolmarm dealing with the obstreperous class band. "There are a lot of people who have flow... I have something else."

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