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Pianist PaulBley has set many milestones along his illustrious career, taking the piano on undiscovered paths and fermenting his art with unbridled imagination. Risk has never daunted him, and even as he takes it, he keeps logic in lockstep. He is as much at home in avant-garde and free explorations as he is in giving the mainstream a new sparkle, and for a time, even tinkering with...
Thanks to Rifftides reader Brian Nation of the Vancouver, B.C., Jazz Society for directions to a transcribed conversation with PaulBley. Bley was at the center of changes in jazz in the late l950s. The Canadian pianist has continued for half a century as an instigator of transformation. At the same time, he has been a gravitational force helping to restrain unstructured or loosely...
Thanks to Rifftides reader Brian Nation of the Vancouver, B.C., Jazz Society for directions to a transcribed conversation with PaulBley. Bley was at the center of changes in jazz in the late l950s. The Canadian pianist has continued for...
I have been in love with Carla Bley since the early 1970's. I actually met her once and my facile glibness totally vanished and I was a stuttering fool. She came to New york in the 60's and worked as a cigarette girl at the Blue Note in the Village where she married the pianist PaulBley. She was already composing and after her divorce from Paul, she formed the Jazz Composers...
To celebrate the upcoming 40th anniversary of ECM Records, the label will re-release 40 of the best recordings in its catalog. Since its conception in 1969, ECM has released more than 1,000 recordings. The label has been home to jazz masters of the second half of the 20th century such as Keith Jarrett, PaulBley, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny and the Art Ensemble of Chicago...
... invention. A tuneful amalgamation of the lyrical/introspective bent of post-war pianists like PaulBley and Keith Jarrett, Fujii's writing for this line-up is among her most compelling. Her compositions resonate with rich harmonic depth and spacious dynamics that provide contrast to dense thickets of activity. Neo-classical themes that resound with romantic impressionism and angular...
Peter Hum notes that amidst the controversy over Dr. Henry Morgentaler receiving the Order of Canada (Canada's highest civilian honor, basically the equivalent to the Presidential Medal of Freedom), almost no one seems to have noticed that PaulBley also...
