Paul Bley
Canada
Born: 10 November 1932
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz, Avant-Garde
Styles: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation, Improvised Music, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Progressive Jazz, Big Band/Swing
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Pianist Paul Bley, whose earliest recordings sound like Al Haig or Bud Powell, took the styles and techniques associated with Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly and Bill Evans to new levels of creative experimentation, becoming an indispensable force in modern music by combining the best elements in bop and early modern jazz with extended free improvisation and procedural dynamics often found in 20th century chamber music. This approach places him in league with artists as diverse as Red Garland, Elmo Hope, Mal Waldron, Jaki Byard, Stanley Cowell, Ke...
See also
- Carla Bley (51)
- Ornette Coleman (47)
- Jimmy Giuffre (4)
- Perry Robinson (1)
- Annette Peacock (1)
Similar artists
- Keith Jarrett (97)
- Cecil Taylor (65)
- Herbie Hancock (61)
- Gary Burton (55)
- Larry Coryell (25)
- Marilyn Crispell (21)
- Morton Feldman (19)
- Erroll Garner (17)
- Charlie Mariano (11)
- Richie Beirach (9)
- Erik Satie (4)
- Geri Allen (4)
- Wynton Kelly (4)
- Warne Marsh (3)
- Red Garland (1)
Influenced by
- Duke Ellington (169)
- Thelonious Monk (94)
- Charlie Parker (58)
- Charles Mingus (18)
- Bud Powell (13)
Followers
- Keith Jarrett (97)
- Charlie Haden (82)
- Carla Bley (51)
- Sonny Rollins (50)
- Brad Mehldau (46)
- Ralph Towner (35)
- Steve Swallow (29)
- the Bad Plus (28)
- Marilyn Crispell (21)
- Barry Altschul (18)
- Arild Andersen (18)
- Charles Mingus (18)
- Jamie Saft (12)
- Richie Beirach (9)
- Myra Melford (9)
- John Taylor (9)
- Keith Tippett (3)
- In The Country (3)
Performed Songs By
- Duke Ellington (169)
- Gary Peacock (63)
- Paul Motian (49)
- John Surman (42)
- Evan Parker (26)
- Jane Bunnett (15)
- Barre Phillips (14)
- Tony Oxley (8)
- George Gershwin (4)
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