Touching & Blood „Revisited“

The overriding themes here are Bley's navigation through free jazz with bebop articulation. Or is it bebop with a free jazz articulation? Rather than rejecting his past (and also that of jazz)... — Allaboutjazz.com, 21st June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th Jun 2021
Catalogue No: EZZTHETICS1108
Label: Ezzthetics

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Paul Bley is a master of the piano trio. He showed new and different ways of exploring the complex triangular geometry of what has arguably become jazz’s signature formation. Bley’s early recording with Charles Mingus and Art Blakey promised great things to come. He emerged more fully as part of Jimmy Giuffre’s innovative trio with Steve Swallow, but it was with his own trios of the mid to late 1960s, with drummer Barry Altschul and bassists Kent Carter and Mark Levinson, that he really began to unfold an individual vision that is best sampled in Touching and in the live recording he made in Haarlem, The Netherlands. These are modern jazz at its most searching. Brian Morton

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21st June 2021

The overriding themes here are Bley's navigation through free jazz with bebop articulation. Or is it bebop with a free jazz articulation? Rather than rejecting his past (and also that of jazz) à la Cecil Taylor, Bley combines the two.

September 2021

The Paul Bley dates, in contrast, have an often explosive energy - closer to free jazz as normally understood, though with more lyrical compositional material.

Touching & Blood „Revisited“

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