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  1. Thanks for some suggestions for Paul Bley recordings. These two are terrific!
    Out of print but I will track them down, at some point.

    #music #jazz #paulbley #discogs #paulmotian #billfrisell

  2. Bill Evans and Paul Bley mix it up together on George Russell’s “Chromatic Universe,” and the results are brilliant.

    #jazz #billevans #paulbley #georgerussell

    youtu.be/webbs7d-pjA?si=4SmDiR

  3. Bill Evans and Paul Bley mix it up together on George Russell’s “Chromatic Universe,” and the results are brilliant.

    #jazz #billevans #paulbley #georgerussell

    youtu.be/webbs7d-pjA?si=4SmDiR

  4. Curious what this is. Paul Bley always sounds promising. The other ones I don’t know, yet.

    #music #jazz #paulbley #newaddition

  5. Jazztodon artist of the week: Paul Bley! A legendary leader of the jazz avant-garde, pianist Paul Bley (1932–2016) cultivated his own musical vision and influenced a generation of performers. Throughout his life, he remained on the cutting edge of creative music.

    "There was an article in Down Beat in something like 1954 in which I mentioned that jazz had reached a crisis, and that the AABA form had too many As, and not enough CDEFG. So I began working with groups where we would play totally free, and that led to a kind of a dead end, because 'totally free' didn't necessarily allow you to continue. A totally free piece is a totally free piece, end of concert." Coleman showed a way out of this impasse: "He suggested ABCDEFGHIJK, in which repetition was anathema… It wasn't totally free because totally free was A forever, metamorphosing. It was a form that took hold, because you could finally return to the written music, and the audience had something to hold on to."

    #jazz #paulbley

  6. Jazztodon artist of the week: Paul Bley! A legendary leader of the jazz avant-garde, pianist Paul Bley (1932–2016) cultivated his own musical vision and influenced a generation of performers. Throughout his life, he remained on the cutting edge of creative music.

    "There was an article in Down Beat in something like 1954 in which I mentioned that jazz had reached a crisis, and that the AABA form had too many As, and not enough CDEFG. So I began working with groups where we would play totally free, and that led to a kind of a dead end, because 'totally free' didn't necessarily allow you to continue. A totally free piece is a totally free piece, end of concert." Coleman showed a way out of this impasse: "He suggested ABCDEFGHIJK, in which repetition was anathema… It wasn't totally free because totally free was A forever, metamorphosing. It was a form that took hold, because you could finally return to the written music, and the audience had something to hold on to."

    #jazz #paulbley