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| 1. | Opus One
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| 2. | (Teapot) Walkin'
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| 3. | Like Someone in Love
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| 4. | Spontaneous Combustion
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| 5. | Split Kick
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| 6. | I Can't Get Started
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| 7. | Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
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| 8. | Opus One [Alternate Take][*]
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| 9. | The Theme [*]
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| 10. | This Time the Dream's on Me [*]
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| 11. | Zootcase [*]
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Jazz
with Charles Mingus, Art Blakey
Paul Bley was a young pianist from Montreal getting his feet wet in the New York jazz scene of the 1950s when he made this CD with two very knowledgeable guides, Charles Mingus and Art Blakey. Bley has evolved over the years to become one of the most exploratory of modern pianists but he has never lost sight of his roots which he is heard working out on here: standards such as "I Can't Get Started" and "Like Someone in Love"; and Horace Silver's "Split Kick." A bonus is "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," heretofore only issued on a Debut sampler.
Opus 1, (Teapot) Walkin', Like Someone in Love, Spontaneous Combustion, Split Kick, I Can't Get Started, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, plus CD bonus tracks Opus 1 (alternate take), The Theme, This Time the Dream's on Me, Zootcase
Pianist Paul Bley's debut as a leader features the 21-year old in a trio with bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Art Blakey for Mingus' Debut label. The CD reissue, which adds four performances to the original program, finds Bley developing his voice within the bebop tradition. Mixing together stimulating originals such as "Opus 1" and "Spontaneous Combustion" with a few standards, Horace Silver's "Split Kick" and a surprisingly effective version of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," Paul Bley may not have been distinctive this early on but he clearly had a potentially strong future.
--- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Paul Bley
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Nov 10, 1932 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation, Free Jazz, Modern Creative, Modern Free, Post-Bop, Progressive Jazz
Paul Bley has long offered avant-garde pianists an alternative approach to improvising than that of Cecil Taylor. Bley has been able to use melody and space in inventive ways while performing fairly free improvisations. He started on piano at age eight, studied at Juilliard during 1950-1952, and in 1953 played with Charlie Parker on a Canadian television show; the soundtrack serves as his recording debut. After recording for Charles Mingus' Debut label in 1953, he moved to New York. Following a stint with Jackie McLean's quintet, he relocated to Los Angeles. Bley played with Chet Baker and then in 1958 played at the Hillcrest with musicians who would soon form the Ornette Coleman Quartet: Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins. He soon returned to New York, played and recorded with Charles Mingus and Don Ellis, was part of the Jimmy Giuffre 3 (which also included Steve Swallow), and was married to the talented up-and-coming pianist/composer Carla Bley. After leading his own trio, Bley spent much of 1963 with Sonny Rollins' group. He participated in the famous October Revolution in Jazz in 1964 and was a founding member of the Jazz Composers Guild. He recorded frequently with his trios, for a few years experimented with electronics with his second wife, Annette Peacock, and then in 1974 founded his Improvising Artists label. Virtually all of that short-lived label's output has been reissued on CD by Black SaintSoul Note. Since the mid-'70s, Bley has recorded a countless number of albums for literally dozens of labels (once cutting two albums in the same day, in two different countries). Bley continued his prolific recording practices post-2000, releasing a bevy of albums including Sankt Gerold in 2001, Nothing to Declare in 2004, and Solo in Mondsee in 2007, among others. About Time, a set featuring Bley solo at the piano, appeared in 2008. A key link between Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, Bley's adventurous yet thoughtful playing sounds like no one else.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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