Cd Synth Thesis - Bley, Paul

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Audio CD - SYNTH THESIS - Bley, Paul
UPC/EAN : 782737100122

Review (5 stars)...timbral selectivity and rhythmic spaciousness...utterly fresh...unique sense of harmony and line. -- Down Beat, April 1995. . . intelligent and sensitive . . . Bleys most finely integrated multi-keyboard statement to date. -- JazzTimes, April 1995...intelligent and sensitive...Bleys most finely integrated multi-keyboard statement to date. -- JazzTimes, April 1995He has created a wonderful world of music...His creativity never seems to stop. -- Jazz Life (Japan), November 1994

Keyboard pioneer Paul Bley has had a profound decades-long influence on jazz piano. Synth Thesis, a completely improvised work, performed entirely without overdubbing, represents a major step into the musical future. In Synth Thesis, Bleys first electronic recording in 20 years, the worlds of synthesizers and piano blend for a unique, sonically surprising and compelling, future-oriented experience -- as brilliantly original as we have come to expect from this great maestro. From the Label 5 stars! . . . timbral selectivity and rhythmic spaciousness . . . dramatically evocative contrasts . . .unique sense of harmony and line.

About the Artist Synthesizers have undergone an extraordinary development since my recordings for Fantasy/Milestone in the 70s, notes Bley, who also played at the first keyboard synthesizer performance at New Yorks Philharmonic Hall in 1978. Today, synthesizers can play more than one note at the same time, they have memory, and the keyboard has touch control. Showing his artistic command of this technology, Bley spontaneously composed music which is both melodically compelling and as future-oriented as we have come to expect from this great maestro.

Bleys profound, decades-long influence on the entire scope of jazz piano has been extraordinary, and he has played, as he puts it, everywhere, with everybody. Among the great musicians he has collaborated with are guitarists Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Bill Frisell, and John Abercrombie; saxophonists Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, and Lester Young; trumpet players Miles Davis, Don Cherry, Harry Edison, and Roy Eldridge; drummers Art Blakey, Roy Haynes, Milford Graves, and Paul Motian; and bassists Charlie Mingus, Oscar Pettiford, Percy Heath, Gary Peacock, Steve Swallow, and Jaco Pastorius.

A resident of upstate New York, Bley is in musical demand around the world, performing in such diverse locations as Montreal, Istanbul, Biarritz, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Venice, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Oslo, Helsinki, Los Angeles, and New York within the space of a single year. Synth Thesis is a major step into the musical future: as the title of the last composition on the disc has it, it is Real Magic.