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| 1. | My Shining Hour
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| 2. | Love Walked In
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| 3. | Just In Time
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| 4. | Autumn Leaves
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| 5. | Wee
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Jazz
Rich Perry (tenor sax)
Harold Danko (piano)
Jay Anderson (bass)
Jeff Hirshfield (drums)
Tenor saxophonist Rich Perry met pianist Harold Danko when both of them were a part of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in the 1970s. Since the '90s, they have both led numerous sessions for Steeplechase, often playing on each other's dates and regularly working clubs with a quartet that included drummer Jeff Hirschfield and bassist Jay Anderson. This second volume of performances from two nights at the Kitano Hotel in New York City finds them playing five very familiar songs, though they find a good deal of new ground as they stretch out a bit more than usual. Perry takes a bit of an angular approach to "My Shining Hour," utilizing the chord changes to build his improvisations without needing to establish the melody. He sets up "Love Walked In" over Anderson's walking bass and Hirschfield's soft brushes with Danko initially laying out, playing a loping yet intricate solo. Perry's sense of humor comes out in the spunky rendition of "Just in Time," with Danko playing eclectic chords behind him à la Jaki Byard. "Autumn Leaves" seems to float, barely touching at the essence of the song. Oddly enough, the bop favorite "Wee" ends up being the most straight-ahead performance, though it has its share of surprises.
---Ken Dryden, 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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