Paul Bley - Solo in Mondsee (Ocrd)
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Artist: Paul BleyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-08-21
Music Label: Ecm Records
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Music Review: STUNNING ORIGINALS BY A .... STUNNING ORIGINAL
Rating: 5 Stars
Ten originals by one of the most original --and melodic- jazz pianists. Bley has played in ultra-modernist groups led by Ornette Coleman and Jimmy Giuffre, and has produced a string of consistently good albums. A consummate group player and accompanist, he plays best of all on his own, and playing either his own compositions or those of composers with whom he has long ties, like Carla Bley, Annette Peacock and Ornette. This fine album --ten originals, played solo-- has sat in the hopper for six years but it is a fitting triumph for the now-75-year-old Bley. Eminently listenable.
A comment: Some of these pieces hint back at the late romantics but most remind me more of the piano music of early French modernists like Satie or Poulenc, only more muscular and somehow, they are alway identifiable as jazz. Variation #8 could very well come from the idiosyncratic English modernist composer Khaikhoshru Sorabji's 100 Transcendental Studies, which is high praise indeed.
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Description of Solo in Mondsee (Ocrd)
Solo in Mondsee is the first solo piano album from Paul Bley on ECM in 35 years! It is the belated `sequel' to 1972's innovative and enduring Open, To Love and is being released in Bley's 75th year. On this creative and profound improvised recital, Bley develops a fascinating program. Kaleidoscopicallysplintered melodies, distant memories of standards, abstractions of the blues and spontaneous free playing are some of the subjects of the "Mondsee Variations." Simply put, Paul Bley (b 1932) is one of the most influential pianists in the entire history of jazz. While still in his twenties he played with Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Chet Baker, Charles Mingus and Art Blakey. He also introduced the talents of Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins to the jazz world with his late 1950s quintet. Among the first artists to appear on ECM, Bley's work was also a major influence on the development of ECM's "aesthetic," as well as almost all of the pianists on the label - from Keith Jarrett to Christian Wallumrød, from Marilyn Crispell to Jon Balke. He has performed with numerous ECM artists, most notably Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. This all-star trio will be performing at New York's famed Birdland in late August, with a new studio album to be recorded as well.Jazz CDs
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