Paul Bley - Amsterdam 2009

Here's a recent solo set by Paul Bley (check out the preceeding post for more).
This was up on dime a few months ago, perfectly presented, but @ 48 kHz. Nero seems to fix this automatically, but the software I use won't, so I changed the FLAC files to 44.1 kHz, in order to be able to burn them... hope you'll enjoy this one as well!

Paul Bley - Solo
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Bimhuis
May 13, 2009

Paul Bley - piano

1. Startled (Paul Bley) 13:40
2. How Long Has This Been Going On (George Gerhswin) 9:13
3. Please (Paul Bley) 8:30
4. Told You So (Paul Bley) 11:20
5. Love Ya (Paul Bley) 5:41
6. Staccato (Paul Bley) 2:35
7. Right to Sing (Paul Bley) 6:54
8. Goodbye (Gordon Jenkins - dedicated to Jimmy Giuffre) 4:04
9. Coleman (Paul Bley) 3:06

TT: 65:02 - complete!

Sound: A
Source: NL Radio6 > DVB-S (48 khz/256kbps) > EDIROL-R09 > Audacity > flac

This came in FLAC @ 48 kHz
Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > BeLight/BeSweet > WAV @ 44.1 kHz > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Paul Bley feat. John Surman - Paris 1994

Here's a short set by Paul Bley's group featuring John Surman. Thanks to jazzrita for trading it to me!

A pair or earlier uploads with Bley are here and here.



Paul Bley Group featuring John Surman
Festival Banlieues Bleues
Drancy (France)
March 27, 1994

John Surman - soprano sax, bass clarinet, wood-flute
Paul Bley - piano
Furio di Castri - bass
Tony Oxley - drums, percussion

1. Combination (5:42) [JS,fl/TO,d]
2. Sevemph(?) (di Castri) 6:57 [quartet]
3. Flame (Bley) 5:10 [PB,p]
4. unknown (6:33) [quartet]
5. Ostinato (6:12) [PB,p]

TT: 30:34

Sound: A-
Source: FM (trade from jazzrita)
Lineage: FM > ? > CDR > EAC (secure, log) > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

:: ubu edits ::
fixed marks
deleted fm talk
deleted duplication around mark of #3/#4

Paul Bley & Wolfgang Puschnig - Saalfelden

Another one endangered of deletion before I come around posting it...

Canadian born pianist Paul Bley is of course well known as one of the most important jazz pianists to emerge around 1960.


Saxophonist Wolfgang Puschnig hails from Austria and is one of the more important jazz voices there and in Europe. He has played and recorded regularly with Carla Bley, the Vienna Art Orchestra, Linda Sharrock or the late great Ernst Jandl (or was that Elnst Jandr?). Other collaborators include Hans Koller (subject of two other posts here and here), Harry Sokal (the photo from 1988 shows Puschnig with him), Uli Scherrer, Nguyên Lê, Mark Feldman, and reguarly also Jamaaladeen Tacuma (together they form the duo "Gemini-Gemini"), and he has done more than two dozen of albums as leader or co-leader, including the great "Austrian Songs - Ob'n und Unt'n" (Universal, 2002) where he adapted traditional songs and melodies for a trio/quartet that also included Klaus Dickbauer, Herbert Joos and Michel Godard.

In short: definitely a musician worth checking out!
And right here you get the chance to do so...


Paul Bley & Wolfgang Puschnig
Jazzfestival Saalfelden
August 2001

Paul Bley - piano
Wolfgang Puschnig - alto sax (1,2,3,6,8) & flute (5)

1. Blues for Nothing (7:42)
2. Blast from the Past (7:12)
3. On (6:36)
4. Bebop improvisation (3:49) [p-solo]
5. Ida Lupino (8:15)
6. Peace (4:25)
7. Improvisation (10:38) [p-solo]
8. Improvisation (6:53) [inc]

TT: 55:33

Sound: A/A-
Source/Lineage: FM>NakamichiLX3>Pioneercdrecr.>flac
Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

:: ubu's edits ::
fixed marks (some were early, most were late)
added fade-out at end of #4
deleted gap at end of #7, merged applause (there was a voiceover there once, but except for the announcer breathing, it was cut out)
deleted noise at end of #8