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| 1. | Blues
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| 2. | Getting Started
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| 3. | When Will the Blues Leave?
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| 4. | Long Ago (And Far Away)
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| 5. | Moor
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| 6. | Gary
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| 7. | Big Foot
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| 8. | Albert's Love Theme
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Jazz / Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Paul Bley - Liner Notes, Piano
Paul Motian - Drums
Bill Elgart - Drums
Gary Peacock - Bass
* Barbara Wojirsch - Cover Design
* Hans Harzheim - Photography
* Manfred Eicher - Producer
Gary Peacock shares front-cover billing with Paul Bley on this 1970 session, but drummer Paul Motian is also present on the first five tracks. (Billy Elgart replaces Motian on the remaining three.) There's a curiously straight-ahead, tempo-driven feel to this short and sweet disc, quite unlike the free aesthetic that Bley, Peacock, and Motian put forward when they returned to ECM as a trio on 1999's Not Two, Not One. That's not to say the music is conventional: there are two tunes apiece by Bley, Ornette Coleman, and Annette Peacock and one by Gary Peacock, in addition to the lone standard, Jerome Kern's "Long Ago and Far Away." (The finale, "Albert's Love Theme" by Annette Peacock, stands out as the most abstract of the bunch.) The brittle, lo-fi sound doesn't detract from the album's historical value.
---David R. Adler, 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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