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Paul Bley - Paul Bley Play Blue: Oslo Concert (2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Paul Bley - Paul Bley Play Blue: Oslo Concert (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 56:50 minutes | 1,05 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

A rare solo performance by one of jazz's great originals, Canadian pianist Paul Bley, recorded live at the Oslo Jazz Festival in 2008 by Jan Erik Kongshaug and Manfred Eicher. There is nothing else quite like a Paul Bley concert. As the New York Times noted, "Mr. Bley long ago found a way to express his long, elegant, voluminous thoughts in a manner that implies complete autonomy from its given setting but isn't quite free jazz. The music runs on a mixture of deep historical knowledge and its own inviolable principles". Here Bley, encouraged by an attentive and enthusiastic Norwegian audience shapes music in the moment, plays his own compositions, and brings the music to a fine conclusion in a performance of Sonny Rollins' Pent-Up House.
Paul Bley - The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show (Remastered) (1971/2017)

Paul Bley - The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show (Remastered) (1971/2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 276 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | Covers included | 00:40:15
Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Bamboo

Bamboo present the first ever reissue of Paul Bley's The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show, originally released in 1971. This stunning album was recorded over three sessions in New York City on December 9th, 1970, January 21st, 1971, and March 9th, 1971. The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show produces new songs and tough translations of previous works from Mr. Joy while joining the likes of other seminal works in 1972's Dual Unity (BAM 7018CD/LP), 1971's Improvisie (BAM 7019CD/LP), and Bley-Peacock Synthesizer Show's Revenge: The Greater The Love, The Bigger The Hate (1971). Featuring the songs of Annette Peacock, this collection sets another milestone in the abstract, free jazz spectrum and joins the above trilogy in celebrating an innovative and iconic figure. A classic piece of Paul Bley's work with synthesized free jazz in the 1970s – an essential release for fans of free jazz, fusion, and progressive music. Includes liners with interviews, background notes, and rare archival photos.

Carla Bley - The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu (2007)  Music

Posted by Bezz at April 19, 2011
Carla Bley - The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu (2007)

Carla Bley - The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu (2007)
XLD rip | FLAC + CUE + LOG | Scans | 350 Mb
Genre ~ Modern Creative, Avant Garde | Label ~ Watt/ECM Records

Composer and pianist Carla Bley has been very consistent, if not exactly prolific, for most of her 40 years in jazz. When she and bassist/life partner Steve Swallow hired British saxophonist Andy Sheppard – then one of his country's young lions as both a composer and as a reedman – in 1989, they hired him on and he's been with the group ever since. ~ AllMusic

Paul Bley - Basics (2001)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Oct. 6, 2019
Paul Bley - Basics (2001)

Paul Bley - Basics (2001)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 210.68 Mb | 01:00:11 | Covers
Free Jazz, Contemporary Jazz | Label: Justin Time - JUST 154-2

Pianist/composer Paul Bley's indisputable contributions to modern jazz and improvisation are somewhat legendary. Whether exploring parts unknown with clarinetist Jimmy Guiffre or when citing his highly acclaimed stints with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Paul Motian, not to mention some of his early endeavors with the bebop crowd, Bley's unique craft resides in a class of its own. And with this 2001 solo piano performance titled Basics, the artist continues to meld mainstream applications with forward thinking concepts and his somewhat infamous implementations of subtle melodic intervals amid ingenious utilization of space and depth.
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow, Billy Drummond - The Lost Chords (2004)

Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow, Billy Drummond - The Lost Chords (2004)
EAC rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | Scans | 260Mb (Incl. Recovery)
Genre ~ Contemporary Jazz | Label ~ WATT Works

Paul Bley - Solo (1989)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Oct. 9, 2019
Paul Bley - Solo (1989)

Paul Bley - Solo (1989)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 200.81 Mb | 49:32 | Covers
Free Jazz, Contemporary Jazz | Label: Justin Time - JUST-28-2

Hyman Paul Bley, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a Canadian 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 audio synthesizers. Bley was a long-time resident of the United States. 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 records of the 2000s.

Paul Bley - Notes On Ornette - 1998  Music

Posted by mfrwiz at May 20, 2010
Paul Bley - Notes On Ornette - 1998

Paul Bley - Notes On Ornette - 1998
Lossless (Flac Individual Files + Cue + Log + auCDtect Report): 373 Mb | EAC Secure Mode Rip | Mp3 (320 kbps): 140 Mb | Scans | Rar Files (3% Recovery)
Audio CD (May 5, 1998) - Original Recording Date: September, 1997 - Number Of Discs: 1 - Label: SteepleChase - Catalog Number: SCCS 31437 - Source: BitTorrent
Jazz
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow - Trios (2013) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow - Trios (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 56:17 minutes | 978 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

"Trios" is one of the outstanding jazz albums of the season and marks the first time that a new Carla Bley album has appeared on ECM itself. Carla, Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow revisit classic Bley compositions in an exceptional album recorded in Lugano in April of 2012 by Manfred Eicher. Included here are spirited new versions of “Utviklingssang” and “Vashkar”, and the suites Les Trois Lagons, Wildlife and The Girl Who Cried Champagne. Carla’s robust tunes are vividly conveyed, all members solo compellingly, and the trio has never sounded better.
Paul Bley - Paul Bley & Scorpio (1973) {Milestone MCD9046 rel 2006}

Paul Bley - Paul Bley & Scorpio (1973) {Milestone MCD9046 rel 2006}
XLD rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 218 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 102 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 28 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1973, 2006 Milestone Records / Fantasy / Universe Italy | MCD 9046
Jazz / Modern Creative / Post Bop / Keyboards

The Milestone label released several of this artist's better records in which he flirts, indeed gets seriously involved, with electronic keyboards. This one is the album where he goes head over heels for the electric piano, and fans of jazz with that Fender Rhodes sound are going to want it, even if the photographer decided to make the normally dignified pianist look like Pinnochio in both of the shots. Paul Bley sits at a bank of keyboards here, giving forth a passage on acoustic, then some chirping synthesizer, then some electric piano, and so forth.

Paul Bley - Paul Bley & Scorpio (1973)  Music

Posted by zerumuga at Oct. 13, 2009
Paul Bley - Paul Bley & Scorpio (1973)

Paul Bley - Paul Bley & Scorpio (1973)
Jazz | 1973 | MP3 CBR 320Kbps => 103 MB | Time 42:51 | Covers

Paul Bley sits at a bank of keyboards here, giving forth a passage on acoustic, then some chirping synthesizer, then some electric piano, and so forth.