Paul Bley Trio - Bebop flac album

Bley was a long-time resident of the United States. His music has been described by Ben Ratliff of the New York Times as "deeply original and aesthetically aggressive".

Producer – Nils Winther. Recorded December 22, 1989. Track 4 is "A Night In Tunesia" in track listing on tray card.

Title: Looking Out Konitz Paul Bley Trio Jutti. PETER IND with LEE KONITZ, PAUL BLEY, JUTTA HIPP & BUDDY RICH. Lee Konitz - Konitz (1954) Paul Bley Trio (1954) NEW 4CD ALBUM JAZZ. Lee Konitz - The Very Cool Lee Konitz (1958) Lee Konitz - The Real Lee Konitz (1957).

Paul Bley Trio - Closer (ESP-Disk' ESP 1021). Paul Bley, piano; Steve Swallow, bass; Barry Altschul, drums. NYC, December 12, 1965. Paul Bley Trio - BeBop (SteepleChase (D) SCCD-31259). Paul Bley, piano; Bob Cranshaw, bass; Keith Copeland, drums. Don't Blame Me. The Theme. reissue of SteepleChase (D) SCS-1259 + 2 bonus tracks.

This album by the Paul Bley Trio is a reissue from 1965. The trio consists of some of the most respected innovators in jazz ever. Paul Bley is on piano, Steve Swallow on bass, and Barry Altschul is on drums. This album is very much a retreat inward. Bley had just gotten off of an earlier recording project with a raucous, big group of musicians, andI'm sure he welcomed the opportunity to strip down to just this basic trio. There are Latin grooves in "Sidways in Mexico," harmonic explorations in "Closer", and bebop-riffs in "Crossroads". What ties all this variety together is the limited instrumentation and the players' incredibly sensitive work. The mix on the album is not the best, and Bley's piano dominates the texture a bit too much on playback, but you can really hear Swallow and Altschul busting their butts the whole time to really make something great.

The second ESP issue from the Paul Bley Trio is a contrast as dramatic as rain against sunshine. The earlier album, Barrage, recorded in October of 1964, was full of harsh, diffident extrapolations of sound and fury, perhaps because of its sidemen; Marshall Allen and Dewey Johnson on saxophone and trumpet, respectively, were on loan from Sun Ra and joined Eddie Gomez and Milford Graves. Indeed, the music there felt like one long struggle to survive.

Closer is the seventh album led by jazz pianist Paul Bley, featuring seven compositions by Carla Bley (and one each by Bley, Annette Peacock and Ornette Coleman), recorded in 1965 and released on the ESP-Disk label.