Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist
Paul Bley, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a Canadian jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and ARP synthesizers. His music has been described by Ben Ratliff of the New York Times as "deeply original and aesthetically aggressive". Bley's prolific output includes influential recordings from the 1950s through to his solo piano recordings of the 2000s.
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Works
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- Above the Tree Line
- Ballade
- Big Foot
- Burlesque
- Clawback
- Dialogue Amour
- Excerpt
- Explanations
- Face One
- Face Two
- Far North
- Finale
- Flame
- Getting Started
- Glad
- Harlem
- How Long
- Insanity
- Inside
- Jaco
- Longer
- Love Hurts
- Lovers
- Marsh Tides
- Mating of Urgency
- Mazatlan
- Memoirs
- Mood
- Motif
- Motion
- No Questions
- No. 3
- Notes
- Piano Solo No. 1
- Poconos
- Poetic Justice
- So Far So Good
- Sprung
- Started
- Time Will Tell
- Told You So
- Turns
- Vampira
- Variation 1
- Variation 11
- Variation 2
- Variation 5
- Variation 6
- Variation 8
- Variation 9
- Way Down South Suite
- You Will, Oscar, You Will