Frank J Oteri: And in terms of training before you got exposed to jazz? Did you train in classical music at all?
Carla Bley: No, I didn't. I never studied anything.
Frank J Oteri: So you're completely self-taught!
Carla Bley: No, my father taught me until I was four, or five maybe, and then my mother tried and I bit her. I bit my mother at the age of five and they gave up on me. That was it. I never learned anything else.