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Album

Early Trios

By Paul Bley

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2005

Album

One Year After

By Paul Bley

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2005

Album

Nothing to Declare

By Paul Bley

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Nothing to Declare; Breakdown; Blues Waltz; 8th Avenue.

Album

Circles

By Paul Bley

Label: Milestone
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Archangel/ Nothing Ever Was, Anyway/ Gary/ Snakes/ Parks/ Circles/ El Cordobes/ Capricorn/ King Korn/ Dreams/ Syndrome/ Gesture Without a Plot/ Ictus.

Album

Improvisie

By Paul Bley

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2004

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Article: Album Review

Paul Bley: Circles

Read "Circles" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Paul Bley's 1970 Synthesizer Show and 1972's Paul Bley and Scorpio are reissued jointly as Circles. Except for “Mr. Joy" from Synthesizer Show, all of the songs from these unconventional albums are presented here, featuring Bley's electronic experiments of the day. While the first half of the compilation sounds slightly dated at times, even humorous to ...

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Paul Bley: Nothing to Declare

Read "Nothing to Declare" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

In the intervening half century since he first appeared on record, pianist Paul Bley has cut a huge number of records and left an unmistakable trail of music defining his own view of avant-garde jazz. (Is is still called avant-garde decades later?) He's worked with a virtual who's who of improvised music, but here for his ...

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Article: Album Review

Paul Bley: Nothing to Declare

Read "Nothing to Declare" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

While pianist Paul Bley is renowned as a free player with an almost allergic aversion to music on the printed page, that doesn't mean that he doesn't have roots, or is afraid to show them. On Nothing to Declare , his fifth solo recording for the Canadian Justin Time label, his background in blues and standards ...

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Article: Interview

Charlie Haden: An Analog Guy in a Digital World

Read "Charlie Haden: An Analog Guy in a Digital World" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen

Born August 6, 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, Charlie Haden came up in a musical family. After moving around the Midwest, he eventually settled in Los Angeles playing bass with Hampton Hawes, Elmo Hope, and Paul Bley. A fateful meeting in 1958 with Ornette Coleman netted Haden one of his most infamous gigs, which continued with brief ...

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Article: Book Review

Time Will Tell: Conversations With Paul Bley

Read "Time Will Tell: Conversations With Paul Bley" reviewed by Norman Weinstein

by Norman Weinstein

Time Will Tell: Conversations With Paul Bley Norman Meehan Berkeley Hills Books2003 Paul Bley's jazz career has been marked by a burning creative restlessness continually leading to new musical discoveries. An earlier book about Bley, Stopping Time, was a collaborative effort matching Bley the grand raconteur with writer David Lee. Time ...


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