Carla Bley discography

This is a list of works by American jazz musician Carla Bley.

As leader

 * 1974: Tropic Appetites (WATT)
 * 1977: Dinner Music (WATT)
 * 1978: European Tour 1977 (WATT)
 * 1979: Musique Mecanique (WATT)
 * 1981: Social Studies (WATT)
 * 1982: Live! (WATT)
 * 1983: Mortelle Randonnée (Mercury) – Soundtrack
 * 1984: I Hate to Sing (WATT)
 * 1984: Heavy Heart (WATT)
 * 1985: Night-Glo (WATT) with Steve Swallow
 * 1987: Sextet (WATT)
 * 1988: Duets (WATT) with Steve Swallow
 * 1989: Fleur Carnivore (WATT)
 * 1991: The Very Big Carla Bley Band (WATT)
 * 1992: Go Together (WATT) with Steve Swallow
 * 1993: Big Band Theory (WATT)
 * 1994: Songs with Legs (WATT) with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow
 * 1996: The Carla Bley Big Band Goes to Church (WATT)
 * 1998: Fancy Chamber Music (WATT)
 * 1999: Are We There Yet? (WATT) with Steve Swallow
 * 2000: 4 x 4 (WATT)
 * 2003: Looking for America (WATT)
 * 2004: The Lost Chords (WATT)
 * 2007: The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu (WATT)
 * 2008: Appearing Nightly (WATT)
 * 2009: Carla's Christmas Carols (WATT)
 * 2013: Trios (ECM) with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow
 * 2015: Andando el Tiempo (ECM) with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow
 * 2020: Life Goes On (ECM) with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow

Collaborations
With Gary Burton With the Jazz Composer's Orchestra With Michael Mantler With Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra With Nick Mason With Steve Swallow
 * 1967: A Genuine Tong Funeral (RCA)
 * 1966: Communication (Fontana) Jazz Composer's Orchestra
 * 1968: The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA) (led by Michael Mantler)
 * 1968-71: Escalator over the Hill (JCOA) (a chronotransduction by Carla Bley & Paul Haines)
 * 1973: Relativity Suite (JCOA) (led by Don Cherry)
 * 1975: The Gardens of Harlem (JCOA) (led by Clifford Thornton)
 * 1975: Echoes of Prayer (JCOA) (led by Grachan Moncur III)
 * 1966: Jazz Realities (Fontana) (with Steve Lacy)
 * 1973: No Answer (WATT) (with Jack Bruce & Don Cherry – texts by Samuel Beckett)
 * 1975: 13 & ¾ (WATT)
 * 1976: The Hapless Child (WATT) (texts by Edward Gorey)
 * 1976: Silence (WATT) (texts by Harold Pinter)
 * 1977: Movies (WATT)
 * 1980: More Movies (WATT)
 * 1982: Something There (WATT)
 * 1969: Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse!)
 * 1983: The Ballad of the Fallen (ECM)
 * 1990: Dream Keeper (Blue Note)
 * 2005: Not in Our Name (Verve)
 * 2016: Time/Life (Impulse!)
 * 1979: Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports (Harvest) (released in 1981)
 * 1986-7: Carla
 * 1992: Swallow
 * 2013: Into the Woodwork

As sidewoman

 * 1975: Jack Bruce – The Jack Bruce Band Live '75  (released 2003)
 * 1975: Jack Bruce – Live on the Old Grey Whistle Test (released 1998)
 * 1977: John Greaves – Kew. Rhone.
 * 1981: Amarcord Nino Rota (Hannibal) &mdash; various artists tribute to Nino Rota (performs "8½")
 * 1984: That's the Way I Feel Now (A&M) &mdash; various artists tribute to Thelonious Monk (performs "Misterioso")
 * 1985: Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill &mdash; various artists tribute to Kurt Weill (performs "Lost in the Stars")
 * 1971-85: Gary Windo – His Master's Bones
 * 1985: The Golden Palominos – Visions of Excess
 * 1991: The Golden Palominos – Drunk with Passion
 * 1995: Jazz to the World &mdash; various artists (performs "Let It Snow")

Videography

 * 1983/2003: Live in Montreal (DVD)