The Paul Bley Quartet
The Paul Bley Quartet is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Paul Bley recorded in 1987 and released on the ECM label.[1]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "While it's easy to argue that, with Manfred Eicher's icy, crystalline production, this was a stock date for both the artists and the label, that argument would be flat wrong. Bley was looking for a new lyricism in his own playing and in his compositions. He was coming from a different place than the large harmonies offered by augmented and suspended chords and writing for piano trios. The other band members -- two other extremely lyrical improvisers in Surman and Frisell (who prized understatement as the veritable doorway to lyricism) and a drummer who was better known for his dancing through rhythms than playing them in Motian -- were the perfect foils".[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz said "The long "Interplay" on the latter, eponymous set, is disappointing enough to ease that album back a stellar notch".[3]
Track listing
- All compositions by Paul Bley except as indicated
- "Interplay" - 20:22
- "Heat" (John Surman) - 8:18
- "After Dark" (Bill Frisell) - 11:55
- "One in Four" (Paul Motian) - 9:33
- "Triste" - 2:58
- Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in November 1987.
Personnel
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