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Paul Bley: My Old Flame (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

Here's a charmingly romantic ballad from very early in Bley's career. His sense of timing here is incredible. If yo...

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Paul Bley: The Archangel (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

Until recently, I hadn't been aware that Bley was one of the pioneers of the electronic synthesizer. Here's one of t...

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Paul Bley: Like Someone In Love (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

The intro here is gorgeous. I'm particularly enchanted by the descending chords 18 seconds in; it's one of those mom...

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Charlie Haden: Ida Lupino (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 06, 08

The 1989 Montreal Jazz Festival honored the career of bassist Charlie Haden by inviting him to lead a different group...

Carla Bley & Paul Haines: Rawalpindi Blues (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music April 06, 08

Escalator Over the Hill, an epic jazz-rock opera, was probably pretentious in 1971, and is definitely pretentious now...

Paul Bley: Seven (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

A profoundly beautiful composition by Carla Bley, brought to life patiently and selflessly by Paul Bley, John Surman,...

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Paul Bley: Mondsee Variation I (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

Paul Bley hasn't released a solo piano recording on ECM in 35 years, and many of his current fans may not even rememb...

Paul Bley & Sonny Greenwich: Steeplechase (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 16, 09

Paul Bley and Sonny Greenwich finally achieved their goal of recording together, during the week that each played sep...

Paul Bley: Line Down (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

An intensely dramatic piece from the quartet of Paul Bley, John Surman, Bill Frisell, and Paul Motian. The individua...

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Paul Bley: Syndrome (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 04, 07

The words "lyrical" and "Free Jazz" rarely appear in the same context. Indeed, perhaps only in a Paul Bley review. An...

Paul Bley: When Will the Blues Leave (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 06, 08

Paul Bley spent the mid-1960s making some of jazz's most fascinating choices. He performed with Jimmy Giuffre in a fr...

Paul Bley: Closer (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 17, 07

Solo jazz piano was a lost art during the 1960s. Most of the leading keyboardists of the era preferred to work in a ...

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The ECM record label, founded by Manfred Eicher in 1969, continues to expand our musical horizons after almost four d...

Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins (with Paul Bley): All the Things You Are (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

The piano solo on this song was my first introduction to Paul Bley's music. When I heard it for the first time (7 ye...

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Paul Bley: So Hard It Hurts (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

Here's a short solo piano track which feels a bit more jarring and urgent than some of the meditative solo work that ...

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Paul Bley: King Korn (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 11, 08

It may surprise some listeners, but this 1964 rhythm section sounds like many of the rhythm sections playing in New Y...

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            The Rhythm Section, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Paul Bley: Walking Woman (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 10, 08

Vicious. That's the word. With Eddie Gomez and Milford Graves holding down the low end, Sun Ra's not-so-secret weapon...

Paul Bley: King Korn (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

Another masterpiece. An amazing composition and performance, with so much nervous energy and a curious kind of stop-...

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Paul Bley: Batterie (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 17, 08

Carla Bley has had a career-long flair for writing theatrical pieces that sometimes sound like they should accompany ...

Paul Bley: Closer (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

A masterpiece. Bley starts by creating these crystalline sound structures which hang uncertainly in the air and grad...

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Paul Bley: Cold Fusion (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

This is my favorite track from Bley's decidedly odd recording Synth Thesis," on which he plays both piano and synthes...

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