Carla Bley - Social Studies (1980 - WATT Works/ECM)
Recorded September through December 1980 / Mixed January 1981 at Grog Kill Studio (that's her basement), Willow, New York
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In 2016 she recalled a memory from her early life:
“My father showed me a piece of music. I had asked him ‘where does this music come from? Who wrote this down?’
And he said ‘Well there are composers who write this stuff and this is the paper they use to write it and here is the pencil,
and they just put a lot of dots on the page and you play whatever the dots say you should play.’
So I took the paper and pencil back to my room and came back the next day with the paper filled with black dots.
His advice and only advice was: ‘Less dots. Get rid of most of these dots.’
That was my first composing lesson.”