Bley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Carla Bley was an American jazz composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader. An important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, she was perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator over the Hill, as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Art Farmer, John Scofield, and her ex-husband Paul Bley. She was a pioneer in the development of independent artist-owned record labels who recorded over two dozen albums between 1966 and 2019.
James Peter Giuffre was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He is known for developing forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating forms of free improvisation.
Marsalis is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Favre is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Petrescu is a patronymic family name common in Romania, meaning "son of Petre". Notable people with this surname include:
McDuff is a surname. It is the Anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic name Mac Dhuibh. Notable people with the surname include:
Cuypers is a variation of the Dutch surname Kuipers and, has the same meaning as the English surname Cooper or Coopers. People with this surname include:
Schnyder is used in Switzerland as an alternative form of the more common German surname Schneider (tailor). Immigrants to North America often spelled their name as Snyder.
Teagarden is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pawlik is a surname. It is a diminutive of the Polish given name Paweł ("Paul"). Pawlik is related to the Czech surname Pavlík.
Snijders is a Dutch occupational surname. Snijder literally means "cutter", referring to a taylor or a woodcarver. People with this surname include:
Urso is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Răducanu is a Romanian surname and occasional given name:
Blay is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Blei is a German surname meaning "lead". Notable people with the surname include:
Pietri or Piétri is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Shwartz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Play Blue: Oslo Concert is a live album by pianist Paul Bley recorded in 2008 and released on the ECM label in 2014.
Ekornes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Petrovsky (masculine) and its feminine form Petrovskaya are Russian-language surnames. People with the surname include: