Showing posts with label Paul Bley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Bley. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Paul Bley - Open, to Love (1973)


This 1973 record is a collection of solo piano improv pieces from Paul Bley; it's cold and stark, spare, expansive and chilling. It's like a cross between free jazz and Erik Satie; you ever see a horror movie and just as the main character starts their descent into madness and chops up the town with an axe? Yeah, this is like that- the fragmentary piano runs scattered about in the air, sounding like someone actually losing their marbles...


Except Bley knew exactly what he was doing on this album. Enjoy!