Paul Bley

Nothing To Declare

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“Since the Montreal-born, longtime-US resident Bley’s 50’s debut with Mingus and Blakey, he’s worked with more first-rate, wide ranging original musical minds than anyone but Miles....” (Howard Mandel, Downbeat, April 1995). This is Paul Bley’s fifth solo piano recording for Justin Time, and it’s classic Bley - introspective, personal, intelligent and above all, individual. A national treasure in his native Canada, he is, with Oscar Peterson and Glenn Gould, one of the greatest pianists that country has ever produced.

“Bley is the only pianist to have played with both Charlie Parker and Ornette Coleman. Bley has always been an innovative musician, collaborating with Coleman and the ‘outside’ Sonny Rollins of the early Sixties (Bley is the pianist on one of the strangest, and most oddly beautiful of all jazz records, Sonny Meets Hawk [Coleman Hawkins].” Eric Nisenson, Music, Computers, and Software August 1997
“He is a genius, oh yes...”
“...there are few pianists in any form of music who so intriguingly interweave the surprises of both beauty and the intellect.” Nat Hentoff, Village Voice