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Album

Closer

Label: ESP Disk
Released: 2008
Track listing: Ida Lupino; Start; Closer; Sideways In Mexico; Batterie; And Now The Queen; Figfoot; Crossroads; Violin; Cartoon.

Album

12 (+6) In A Row

By Paul Bley

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2008

Album

About Time

By Paul Bley

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: About Time; Encore.

Album

Barrage

By Paul Bley

Label: ESP Disk
Released: 2008
Track listing: Batterie; Ictus; And Now the Queen; Around Again; Walking Woman; Barrage.

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Article: Album Review

Pianist Paul Bley recorded two albums for ESP Disk. The first was Barrage in 1964, the second was Closer in 1965. On the first Bley used Marshall Allen (alto sax), Dewey Johnson (trumpet), Eddie Gomez (bass) and Milford Graves (percussion). The latter was a more intimate outing with Steve Swallow (bass) and Barry Altschul (percussion). If ...

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Paul Bley: About Time

Read "About Time" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
August 17, 2008

Pianist Paul Bley has set many milestones along his illustrious career, taking the piano on undiscovered paths and fermenting his art with unbridled imagination. Risk has never daunted him, and even as he takes it, he keeps logic in lockstep.He is as much at home in avant-garde and free explorations as he is in ...

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News: Recording

Paul Bley's "About Time" on Justin Time

May 23, 2008

Justin Time Records is proud to announce the release of Paul Bley's About Time, the master pianist's sixth solo recording for the label. With more than half a century of recognition as one of the most innovative and forward thinking individuals in the jazz pantheon, Bley has always maintained that the personality of the player should ...

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Article: Album Review

Paul Bley Trio: Closer

by Jerry D'Souza
May 20, 2008

Pianist Paul Bley is an innovator whose imagination eclipses the norm. He never wavers from a challenge and there is always an air of expectancy each time Bley sits at the piano. He is comfortable in any setting and his music has been shaped by several peers. Among them were Sonny Rollins, Carla Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, ...

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Paul Bley: Closer

by Lyn Horton
April 11, 2008

Piano music has various personalities. It can be extroverted, jamming and far-reaching. It can be self-referential and have form that evolves only as it is played. It can be rigorously confined to form and fit well within conventional or traditional labels that have been assigned to it. Or it can be introverted and mindful, and beg ...

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Paul Bley (12 + 6) in a Row : Hatology 649

February 18, 2008

Paul Bley (12 + 6) In A Row : Hatology 649 Paul Bley -piano Hans Koch -reeds (clarinets & saxophones) Franz Koglmann -flugelhorn Total Time DDD 59:08 As in any improvised music, there are challenges accepted, risks taken. Bley himself has suggested, as a measure of the success ...