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Paul Bley
Groundwork information
Nativity name	Hyman Paul Bley
Born	(1932-11-ten)November 10, 1932 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died	January 3, 2016(2016-01-03) (aged 83) Stuart, Florida, U.S.
Genres	Advanced jazz, complimentary jazz, free improvisation, post bop
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instruments	Piano
Associated acts	Carla Bley, Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Ben Webster, Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, Don Ruddy, Ornette Coleman, Gary Peacock, Jimmy Giuffre, Charlie Haden, Charles Mingus, Paul Motian, Annette Peacock, Gary Peacock, Sonny Rollins, Steve Swallow, Barry Altschul, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, John Abercrombie, Coleman Hawkins, Steve Lacy
Website	improvart.com/bley/

Musical artist

Paul Bley, CM (Nov 10, 1932 – Jan 3, 2016) was a jazz pianist known for his contributions to the gratis jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live operation on the Moog and Arp audio synthesizers. His music has been described past Ben Ratliff of the New York Times every bit "securely original and aesthetically aggressive". Bley's prolific output includes influential recordings from the 1950s through to his solo piano recordings of the 2000s.

Early life [edit]

Bley was born in Montreal, Quebec, on Nov 10, 1932.^[ane] His adoptive parents were Betty Marcovitch, an immigrant from Romania, and Joseph Bley, owner of an embroidery factory, who named him Hyman Bley. As a teenager he inverse his name to "Paul," thinking that girls would observe information technology more attractive.^{[ii] [3]} However, in 1993 a relative from the New York branch of the Bley family walked into the Sweetness Basil Jazz Club in New York City and informed Bley that his father was really his biological parent. At age v Bley began studying the violin, but at age vii, after his female parent divorced his father, he decided to switch to the piano. Past eleven he had received a junior diploma from the McGill Conservatory in Montreal. At xiii he formed a band which played at summer resorts in Ste. Agathe, Quebec. Every bit a teenager he played with touring American bands, including Al Cowan'southward Tramp Band. In 1949, when Bley was starting his senior year of high school, Oscar Peterson asked Bley to fulfill his contract at the Alberta Lounge in Montreal. The next year Bley left Montreal for New York City and Juilliard. Bley lived in the Usa for his entire adult life, simply never renounced his Canadian citizenship.

1950s [edit]

In 1951, on summer intermission from Juilliard, Bley returned to Montreal where he helped organize the Montreal Jazz Workshop. In 1953 Bley invited the bebop alto saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker to the Jazz Workshop, where he played and recorded with him, making the record "Charlie Parker Montreal 1953". When Bley returned to New York City he hired Jackie McLean, Al Levitt and Doug Watkins to play an extended gig at the Copa City on Long Isle. From the early 1950s until 1960 Bley did a serial of trios with Al Levitt and Peter Ind; recordings of this trio in 1954 were included in the Mercury album "Paul Bley". In 1953 the Shaw Bureau booked Bley and his trio to tour with Lester Immature, billed as "Lester Immature and the Paul Bley Trio" in ads. He also performed with tenor saxophonist Ben Webster at that time. Additionally, in 1953, Charles Mingus produced the Introducing Paul Bley album for his label, Debut Records with Mingus on bass and drummer Art Blakey. (In 1960 Bley recorded once more with the Charles Mingus Group.)

In 1954 Bley received a call from Chet Baker inviting him to play contrary Baker's quintet at Jazz City in Hollywood, California for the month of March. This was followed by a bout with vocaliser Dakota Staton.

Downwardly Beat Magazine interviewed Bley for its July xiii, 1955 consequence. The prescient title of the article read, "PAUL BLEY, Jazz Is Just About Set up For Some other Revolution". The article, reprinted in Downwards Beat out'south 50th Anniversary edition, quoted Bley every bit proverb, "I'd similar to write longer forms, I'd like to write music without a chordal center."

Bley's trio with Hal Gaylor and Lennie McBrowne toured across the US in 1956, including a club in Juarez. Mexico. The tour culminated with an invitation to play a 1956 New Year'southward Eve gig at Lucile Ball and Desi Arnez's home in Palm Springs. During the evening, Bley collapsed on the bandstand with a bleeding ulcer and Lucy immediately took him to the Palm Springs infirmary where she proceeded to pay for all of his medical intendance. Bley, who had met Karen Borg while she was working as a cigarette girl at Birdland in NYC, married her later on she came out to encounter him in Los Angeles, where she became Carla Bley.

In 1957 Bley stayed in Los Angeles where he had the house ring at the Hillcrest Club. By 1958 the original band, with vibe player, Dave Pike, evolved into a quintet with Bley hiring young avant garde musicians trumpet thespian Don Blood-red, alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Billy Higgins.^[4]

1960s [edit]

In the early on 1960s Bley was part of a trio, with Jimmy Giuffre on reeds, and Steve Swallow on bass. Its repertoire included compositions by Giuffre, Bley and his now ex-wife, composer Carla Bley. The grouping'south music presented innovations in chamber jazz and free jazz.^[five] The 1961 European bout of The Giuffre 3 shocked a public expecting Bebop, however the many recordings released from this bout have proven to exist classics of free jazz. During the same menstruation, Bley was touring and recording with tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, which culminated with the RCA Victor album Sonny Meets Hawk! with tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.^[6] Bley's solo on "All The Things You lot Are" from this album has been chosen "the shot heard effectually the world" by Pat Metheny.^[seven]

In 1964 Bley was instrumental in the formation of the Jazz Composers Lodge, a branch arrangement which brought together many free jazz musicians in New York: Bill Dixon, Roswell Rudd, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Carla Bley, Michael Mantler, Sun Ra, and others. The club organized weekly concerts and created a forum for the "October Revolution" of 1964.^{[five] [6] [viii]} The influential recording, "Turning Betoken", released by Improvising Artists in 1975, was recorded in 1964 when Bley brought John Gilmore, Gary Peacock, and Paul Motian to the University of Washington.

In the late 1960s, Bley pioneered the utilize of the Arp and Moog synthesizers, doing the first alive synthesizer performance at Philharmonic Hall in New York Metropolis on December 26, 1969. This "Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show" operation, a group with singer/composer Annette Peacock, who had written much of his personal repertoire since 1964, was followed past her playing on the recordings Dual Unity (credited to "Annette & Paul Bley") and Improvisie.^[5] The latter was a French release of two extended improvisational tracks with Bley on synthesizers, Peacock'south vocalization and keyboards, and percussion past Dutch costless jazz drummer Han Bennink, who had also appeared on part of Dual Unity.^[9]

1970s [edit]

In 1972 Manfred Eicher released Bley'due south first solo piano recording, Open, to Love, on ECM Records. Bley also released the trio album, Paul Bley & Scorpio for Milestone Records in 1972 on which he plays 2 electric pianos and Arp synthesizer. In 1974, Bley and video artist Carol Goss, his 2nd wife, founded the product company Improvising Artists, known as IAI Records & Video . The label issued audio-visual recordings by many of the most creative improvisers of the twentieth century likewise as the electrical quartet anthology, Jaco, the debut recording of Pat Metheny on electric guitar and Jaco Pastorius^[x] on electric bass, with Bley on electrical piano and Bruce Ditmas on drums. IAI records and videos include performances by Jimmy Giuffre, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland, Marion Brown, Gunter Hampel, Lester Bowie, Steve Lacy, Ran Blake, Perry Robinson, Naná Vasconcelos, Badal Roy, John Gilmore, Gary Peacock two solo piano records by Sun Ra, and others. Bley and Carol Goss are credited in a Billboard embrace story with the outset commercial "music video".^[11] Goss produced live video recordings with IAI Records artists, projecting the images from analog video synthesizers during the performances. In addition, her video fine art is often accompanied by Paul Bley's solo piano music every bit well as his electric band recordings, some of which have non yet been released on sound records.^[12]

1980s [edit]

Bley was featured in Ron Isle of man's 1981 documentary pic Imagine the Audio, in which he performs and discusses the development of free jazz and his music.^[13] Bley began to record for multiple labels in the 1980s in many different formats including: solo piano albums: Tears for Owl Records, Tango Palace for Soulnote, PAUL BLEY SOLO for Justin Time Records, Blues for Red for Red Records; duo recording, Diane (anthology), with Chet Baker for Steeplechase; The Montreal Tapes with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian for Verve, Fragments with John Surman, Bill Frisell, and Paul Motian for ECM and three new recordings with Jimmy Giuffre and Steve Consume for Owl Records, and numerous other recordings.

1990s [edit]

Bley connected to tour in Europe, Nihon, Southward America and the United states of america recording prolifically as a soloist and with a wide range of ensembles. In 1993 the Montreal International Jazz Festival produced a Paul Bley Homage concert series of four nights. In some years he recorded more than 8 albums. Notably, Bley revisited the synthesizer in a record for Postcards, titled Synthesis.

During this time, Bley as well became a part-time faculty member of the New England Music Conservatory,^[11] where he taught musicians, Satoko Fujii^[xiv] and Yitzhak Yedid.^[15] He would travel to Boston for one 24-hour interval a calendar month, ostensibly to have lobster, often meeting with students in coffee shops as he considered that they already know how to play, but needed guidance in life.

The American goggle box network, Bravo, and the French-German Network, Arte, co-produced a 1-hr biography of Paul Bley in 1998.

Bley's autobiography was published in 1999 ( Stopping Time: Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz )^[11]

2000s [edit]

In 2001 the National Archives of Canada caused Bley'south archives. In 2003 a volume based on Bley interviews by musicologist Norman Meehan (Time Will Tell)^[16] was published. It was an in depth discussion of the procedure of improvisation. In 2008, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.^[17] In 2009 the book Paul Bley: The Logic of Chance, written in Italian past jazz pianist Arrigo Cappelletti and translated into English language past jazz pianist Greg Burk, was published. In addition to touring solo in the US and Europe, Bley released several solo piano recordings in this decade, including Basics, Nothing to Declare and About Time for Justin Time Records and Solo in Mondsee and Play Blueish - Oslo Concert for ECM Records. Paul Bley'southward last public performances were in 2010 playing a solo piano concert at the La Villette Jazz Festival in Paris, followed by a duo with Charlie Haden at BlueNote in New York City during a full moon. Paul Bley died of natural causes on Jan 3, 2016, at habitation in Stuart, Florida, at the age of 83.^{[5] [18]}

Discography [edit]

References [edit]

1. ^ Schudel, Matt (January five, 2016). "Paul Bley, innovative pianist in mod jazz, dies at 83". The Washington Mail service. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved January vi, 2016.
2. ^ Paul Bley with David Lee (January 1999). Stopping Fourth dimension: Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz. Véhicule Press. p. 10. ISBN1-55065-111-0.
3. ^ Bley Paul biography Archived July vi, 2010, at the Wayback Machine www.jazz.com
4. ^ Spellman, A. B. (1985). Four Lives in the Bebop Business. Limelight Editions. p. 123. ISBN0879100427.
5. ^ ^{a b c d} Chagollan, Steve (Jan 5, 2016). "Paul Bley, Influential Jazz Pianist, Dies at 83". Diverseness . Retrieved January 5, 2016.
6. ^ ^{a b} Gans, Charles J. (January 5, 2016). "Avant-garde jazz pianist Paul Bley dies at 83 in Florida". Cybercast News Service . Retrieved January five, 2016.
7. ^ Journalist, Ralph A. Miriello Jazz (January eighteen, 2016). "10 Pianists Reflect on the Indelible Influence of Paul Bley 1932-2016 | Huffington Mail service". The Huffington Mail service . Retrieved September 9, 2016.
8. ^ Paul Bley with David Lee: Stopping Time. Paul Bley and the Transformation of Jazz, Vehicule Press, 1999.
9. ^ Jurek, Thom. "Improvisie - Paul Bley". AllMusic . Retrieved January 5, 2016.
10. ^ Limbong, Andrew; Jarenwattananon, Patrick (January 5, 2016). "Paul Bley, Influential Jazz Pianist, Has Died". NPR . Retrieved Jan 5, 2016.
11. ^ ^{a b c} Fraser, David (September seven, 2008). "Paul Bley". The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved Jan five, 2016.
12. ^ "IAI Video Catalog". Improvart.com . Retrieved July 25, 2021.
13. ^ "Imagine the Audio". Spinx Productions. Archived from the original on Jan xiv, 2016. Retrieved Jan 5, 2016.
14. ^ Kopman, Budd (May 12, 2008). "Satoko Fujii featuring Paul Bley: Something Virtually Water (1996)". All Nigh Jazz . Retrieved January 5, 2016.
15. ^ Gottschalk, Kurt (October 21, 2003). "Yitzhak Yedid: Myth of the Cave (2003)". All About Jazz . Retrieved January five, 2016.
16. ^ Weinstein, Norman (Jan thirteen, 2004). "Fourth dimension Volition Tell: Conversations With Paul Bley". All Nearly Jazz . Retrieved January 5, 2016.
17. ^ "Governor General Announces New Appointments to the Order of Canada". Archived from the original on September 8, 2009.
18. ^ Hum, Peter (Jan five, 2016). "RIP, Paul Bley". Ottawa Citizen . Retrieved Jan half dozen, 2016.

External links [edit]

• Paul Bley homepage
• "Service for Paul Bley" by Ethan Iverson
• Paul Bley at IMDb

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bley

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