The Paul Bley Quartet: w/ Surman, Frisell, Motian

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 10 Feb 2009 13:11:00 | Comments : 2 |

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The Paul Bley Quartet is dominated by the twenty-minute track “Interplay.” which starts off sounding a bit like warped Bill Evans with just Motian providing a subtle driving pulse. Soon though Surman enters on soprano sax and the music begins its trip as Frisell plays “sounds” on the guitar (rather than just playing the guitar). The track is sectional but each part merges imperceptibly into the next, becoming one organic whole, with each player coming to fore, but always shadowed by one of the other players. As a bass-less quartet, this could not sound more different than Fieldwork's Simulated Progress in that there is no attempt to fill in the bottom by Bley. The music feels tonal or at least center on a note, and the sounds created must be heard to be understood.

Motian's sole composition “One In Four” fits the established mood but emphasizes, not surprisingly, the rhythmic, with a section that has a triple feel pulling against another section with a duple feel. Physically beautiful music that might be called quintissential ECM, The Paul Bley Quartet is a fine introduction to the individual styles of each of the four players.

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Tracks

1. Interplay
2. Heat
3. After Dark
4. One In Four
5. Triste

Paul Bley: Piano
John Surman: Soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Bill Frisell: Guitar
Paul Motian: Drums

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Posted By: mgirao Date: 10 Feb 2009 18:55:41

Many thanks for this great upload, but... it´s a pitty the majority friends of Jazz do not upload their files in lossless format. Why this? We also want the best quality as our friends of Classical music.
So, this is a campaign: Let´s upload our files in ape or flac (preferable) format.

Posted By: genushaha Date: 17 Jun 2011 23:09:08

Thanks so much!

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