Is Paul Bley Retired?

[Pete C]

I understand perfectly where you're coming from, and it is indeed a matter of personal musical taste. But I do suspect the Surman of the trio with Phillips and Martin would have been a better match for Bley--I'd love to hear what he might have sounded like with Altschul & Bley in 1970.

[jlhoots]

Notes On Ornette is an excellent Bley CD (Steeplechase)

[alocispepraluger102]

i find the latter surman-bley recordings, in certain instances, transcendental.

i'm profoundly sorry that there weren't more of them.

[brownie]

Notes On Ornette is an excellent Bley CD (Steeplechase)

Agree

One of Bley's best!

[Simon8]

I recently got hold of FOOTLOOSE ! and it is rapidly becoming one of my favorite piano trio record.

The recording quality is so-so, the piano sounds a little out of tune, but Bley, Steve Swallow and Pete La Roca are... somewhere else, digging in, at once fiercely swinging, deeply lyrical, in & out & in again - "sort of like Ahmad Jamal with certain kind of drugs" (said long time admirer Keith Jarrett...).

Ethan Iverson (Bad Plus pianist and keen jazz commentator) does a great job of describing the record, its players and influence:

http://destination-out.com/?p=576

[CraigP]

I recently got hold of FOOTLOOSE ! and it is rapidly becoming one of my favorite piano trio record.

I had no idea Paul Bley did the soundtrack to Footloose...

[Simon8]

Kevin Bacon plays euphonium on two tracks.

[CraigP]

So there really IS 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon!

[JETman]

I've been revisiting some of the Paul Bley Steeplechase recordings lately - Questions, Paul Plays Carla, Reality Check, Notes on Ornette. These are all wonderful trio albums. However, since I hadn't listened to them for a long time, I was surprised at how closely they resemble ECM recordings in terms of where their sound lives.

Maybe Nils Winther is in on the conspiracy?

[alocispepraluger102]

the live recording that the bley/haden/motian trio in montreal on the gitanes label as part of a haden festival is magnificent.

the piano was great, they were in unusually rare, even for them, creative form that night.

Edited May 26, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[colinmce]

Universal Canada released all the Haden music from that week out previously on Verve in a box set that I highly recommend for people that don't already have this stuff. Not a wasted minute across five CDs.

[JETman]

Universal Canada released all the Haden music from that week out previously on Verve in a box set that I highly recommend for people that don't already have this stuff. Not a wasted minute across five CDs.

I have 6 or 7 cd's. I don't think the set with Pat Metheny was released.

[romualdo]

Universal Canada released all the Haden music from that week out previously on Verve in a box set that I highly recommend for people that don't already have this stuff. Not a wasted minute across five CDs.

I have 6 or 7 cd's. I don't think the set with Pat Metheny was released.

The Montreal Tapes - 6CD set (released 2009 by Universal France)

Picked it up via Ebay a couple of years back (was much cheaper then)

Indeed, the Metheny set was not included here

Best prices now are via Amazon France or Canada

[JETman]

Universal Canada released all the Haden music from that week out previously on Verve in a box set that I highly recommend for people that don't already have this stuff. Not a wasted minute across five CDs.

I have 6 or 7 cd's. I don't think the set with Pat Metheny was released.

The Montreal Tapes - 6CD set (released 2009 by Universal France)

Picked it up via Ebay a couple of years back (was much cheaper then)

Indeed, the Metheny set was not included here

Best prices now are via Amazon France or Canada

Yes, the 7th cd is the duo with Egberto Gismonti released by ECM:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/in-montreal-r542239

I think there were some legal hangups with the Metheny set. Wish they could be worked out.