Paul Bley
Sign in to saveCanadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist (1932-2016)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Time will tell
- Stopping time
- The Paul Bley synthesizer show
- Improvisie
- Stopping Time
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Film & TV
Montreal, Canada
Paul Bley, CM was a jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and ARP synthesizers.
Known for
- Imagine the Sound — Self1981
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1932-11-10
- Active to
- 2016-01-03
Discography
- Introducing Paul Bley1954
- Paul Bley1955
- Footloose!1964
- Ramblin’1969
- Ballads1971
- Improvisie1971
- Open, to Love1973
- Paul Bley / NHØP1973
- Paul Bley & Scorpio1973
- Jaco1974
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 86,871
- Total plays
- 636,758
Tags
Hyman Paul Bley, CM (November 10, 1932 - January 3, 2016) was a Canadian pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing. Bley was a long-time resident of the United States. His music characteristically featured strong senses both of melodic voicing and space. Paul Bley was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; his adoptive parents were Betty Marcovitch, an immigrant from Romania, and Joe Bley, owner of an embroider
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Montreal
- Place of death
- Cherry Valley
- Spouse
- Annette Peacock
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- French
- Genre
- bebop
- Instrument
- synthesizer
- Record label
- ESP-Disk
- Official website
- www.improvart.com/bley
- Image
- Paul Bley, 1968.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1932-11-10
- date of death
- 2016-01-03
- birth name
- Hyman Paul Bley
- name in native language
- Paul Bley
- Commons category
- Paul Bley
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