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Paul Bley, a jazz pianist whose thoughtful but intuitive commitment to advanced improvisation became widely influential, died of natural causes Sunday. He was 83. Bley was surrounded by family at his ...

Bley, who died Oct. 17, led her own large and small touring bands from the 1970s until a few years ago — but jazz musicians had been playing her enigmatic compositions long before that. This is FRESH ...

Reviewing an album that is already heralded as a masterpiece, the highlight of the work of Paul Bley, is intimidating. The quality of the recording as issued on CD was already magnificent. Would it be ...

Carla Bley, the dignified jazz composer, may at times be whimsical, but has never been in danger of turning fey. Her early jazz experiences with George Russell and the pianist Paul Bley, coupled with ...

Paul Bley, a modern master of the jazz piano whose career spanned seven decades and who rose through the ranks by performing with such legends as Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Charles Mingus in the ...

If any two musicians share a special bond when they perform, it’s pianist Carla Bley and bassist Steve Swallow. The two have performed in the same bands since the1960s and have been romantic partners ...

If jazz is a music of constant change, then the Canadian pianist Paul Bley, who has died aged 83, was one of the most steadfast proponents of that demanding characteristic. “Anything you play twice is ...

When word comes through about an interview with Carla Bley, ahead of her appearance in the Perspectives series at the National Concert Hall, it comes via an email from her “agent”, a certain Stephen W ...